diff --git a/packages_rs/nextclade/benches/bench_create_stripes.rs b/packages_rs/nextclade/benches/bench_create_stripes.rs
index e10348d55..728485685 100644
--- a/packages_rs/nextclade/benches/bench_create_stripes.rs
+++ b/packages_rs/nextclade/benches/bench_create_stripes.rs
@@ -22,9 +22,7 @@ pub fn bench_create_stripes(c: &mut Criterion) {
   let excess_bandwidth = black_box(2);
   let qry_len = black_box(30);
   let ref_len = black_box(40);
-  let max_indel = black_box(400);
-  let allowed_mismatches = black_box(2);
-  let max_band_area = black_box(500_000_000);
+  let minimal_bandwidth = black_box(0);
 
   let mut group = c.benchmark_group("create_stripes");
   group.throughput(Throughput::Bytes(qry_len as u64));
@@ -36,8 +34,7 @@ pub fn bench_create_stripes(c: &mut Criterion) {
         ref_len,
         terminal_bandwidth,
         excess_bandwidth,
-        allowed_mismatches,
-        max_band_area,
+        minimal_bandwidth,
       )
     });
   });
diff --git a/packages_rs/nextclade/benches/bench_seed_alignment.rs b/packages_rs/nextclade/benches/bench_seed_alignment.rs
index 8ce268981..66c7c85ad 100644
--- a/packages_rs/nextclade/benches/bench_seed_alignment.rs
+++ b/packages_rs/nextclade/benches/bench_seed_alignment.rs
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ use nextclade::align::params::AlignPairwiseParams;
 use nextclade::align::seed_alignment::create_alignment_band;
 use nextclade::align::seed_match2::{get_seed_matches_maybe_reverse_complement, CodonSpacedIndex, SeedMatchesResult};
 use nextclade::alphabet::nuc::to_nuc_seq;
-use nextclade::gene::gene_map::GeneMap;
 
 pub fn bench_seed_alignment(c: &mut Criterion) {
   let params = AlignPairwiseParams::default();
@@ -20,6 +19,8 @@ pub fn bench_seed_alignment(c: &mut Criterion) {
 
   let seed_index = CodonSpacedIndex::from_sequence(&ref_seq);
 
+  let minimal_bandwidth = black_box(0);
+
   let mut group = c.benchmark_group("seed_alignment");
   group.bench_function("seed_match", |b| {
     b.iter(|| {
@@ -32,10 +33,8 @@ pub fn bench_seed_alignment(c: &mut Criterion) {
         ref_seq.len() as isize,
         params.terminal_bandwidth as isize,
         params.excess_bandwidth as isize,
-        params.allowed_mismatches as isize,
-        params.max_band_area,
-      )
-      .unwrap();
+        minimal_bandwidth,
+      );
     });
   });
   group.finish();