diff --git a/vllm/benchmarks/throughput.py b/vllm/benchmarks/throughput.py
index f022a55e62..96e39fd92e 100644
--- a/vllm/benchmarks/throughput.py
+++ b/vllm/benchmarks/throughput.py
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ def run_vllm(
     requests: list[SampleRequest],
     n: int,
     engine_args: EngineArgs,
+    do_profile: bool,
     disable_detokenize: bool = False,
 ) -> tuple[float, Optional[list[RequestOutput]]]:
     from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams
@@ -75,10 +76,14 @@ def run_vllm(
     outputs = None
     if not use_beam_search:
         start = time.perf_counter()
+        if do_profile:
+            llm.start_profile()
         outputs = llm.generate(prompts,
                                sampling_params,
                                lora_request=lora_requests,
                                use_tqdm=True)
+        if do_profile:
+            llm.stop_profile()
         end = time.perf_counter()
     else:
         assert lora_requests is None, "BeamSearch API does not support LoRA"
@@ -88,6 +93,8 @@ def run_vllm(
         for request in requests:
             assert request.expected_output_len == output_len
         start = time.perf_counter()
+        if do_profile:
+            llm.start_profile()
         llm.beam_search(
             prompts,
             BeamSearchParams(
@@ -95,6 +102,8 @@ def run_vllm(
                 max_tokens=output_len,
                 ignore_eos=True,
             ))
+        if do_profile:
+            llm.stop_profile()
         end = time.perf_counter()
     return end - start, outputs
 
@@ -103,6 +112,7 @@ def run_vllm_chat(
         requests: list[SampleRequest],
         n: int,
         engine_args: EngineArgs,
+        do_profile: bool,
         disable_detokenize: bool = False) -> tuple[float, list[RequestOutput]]:
     """
     Run vLLM chat benchmark. This function is recommended ONLY for benchmarking
@@ -133,7 +143,11 @@ def run_vllm_chat(
                 detokenize=not disable_detokenize,
             ))
     start = time.perf_counter()
+    if do_profile:
+        llm.start_profile()
     outputs = llm.chat(prompts, sampling_params, use_tqdm=True)
+    if do_profile:
+        llm.stop_profile()
     end = time.perf_counter()
     return end - start, outputs
 
@@ -142,6 +156,7 @@ async def run_vllm_async(
     requests: list[SampleRequest],
     n: int,
     engine_args: AsyncEngineArgs,
+    do_profile: bool,
     disable_frontend_multiprocessing: bool = False,
     disable_detokenize: bool = False,
 ) -> float:
@@ -185,6 +200,8 @@ async def run_vllm_async(
 
         generators = []
         start = time.perf_counter()
+        if do_profile:
+            await llm.start_profile()
         for i, (prompt, sp,
                 lr) in enumerate(zip(prompts, sampling_params, lora_requests)):
             generator = llm.generate(prompt,
@@ -195,6 +212,8 @@ async def run_vllm_async(
         all_gens = merge_async_iterators(*generators)
         async for i, res in all_gens:
             pass
+        if do_profile:
+            await llm.stop_profile()
         end = time.perf_counter()
         return end - start
 
@@ -543,6 +562,12 @@ def add_cli_args(parser: argparse.ArgumentParser):
                         type=str,
                         default=None,
                         help="Split of the HF dataset.")
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--profile",
+        action="store_true",
+        default=False,
+        help="Use Torch Profiler. The env variable "
+        "VLLM_TORCH_PROFILER_DIR must be set to enable profiler.")
 
     # prefix repetition dataset
     prefix_repetition_group = parser.add_argument_group(
@@ -600,22 +625,27 @@ def main(args: argparse.Namespace):
                     requests,
                     args.n,
                     AsyncEngineArgs.from_cli_args(args),
-                    args.disable_frontend_multiprocessing,
-                    args.disable_detokenize,
+                    disable_frontend_multiprocessing=args.disable_frontend_multiprocessing,
+                    disable_detokenize=args.disable_detokenize,
+                    do_profile=args.profile,
                 ))
         else:
             elapsed_time, request_outputs = run_vllm(
                 requests, args.n, EngineArgs.from_cli_args(args),
-                args.disable_detokenize)
+                disable_detokenize=args.disable_detokenize,
+                do_profile=args.profile)
     elif args.backend == "hf":
         assert args.tensor_parallel_size == 1
+        if args.profile:
+            raise NotImplementedError(
+                "Profiling not implemented yet for backend='hf'.")
         elapsed_time = run_hf(requests, args.model, tokenizer, args.n,
                               args.hf_max_batch_size, args.trust_remote_code,
                               args.disable_detokenize)
     elif args.backend == "vllm-chat":
         elapsed_time, request_outputs = run_vllm_chat(
             requests, args.n, EngineArgs.from_cli_args(args),
-            args.disable_detokenize)
+            disable_detokenize=args.disable_detokenize, do_profile=args.profile)
     else:
         raise ValueError(f"Unknown backend: {args.backend}")