diff --git a/src/inference_endpoint/commands/benchmark/execute.py b/src/inference_endpoint/commands/benchmark/execute.py
index c59aa4346..857b60a62 100644
--- a/src/inference_endpoint/commands/benchmark/execute.py
+++ b/src/inference_endpoint/commands/benchmark/execute.py
@@ -31,8 +31,10 @@
 import shutil
 import signal
 import tempfile
+import threading
 import uuid
 from collections.abc import Callable
+from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor, as_completed
 from dataclasses import dataclass, field
 from dataclasses import replace as dataclass_replace
 from datetime import datetime
@@ -326,8 +328,12 @@ def _precompute_isl_for_multi_turn(
     Only affects dataset-history turns; live-history turns override 'messages'
     at runtime so the stored input_tokens are stale (acceptable approximation).
     """
+    samples_with_messages = [s for s in (dataloader.data or []) if s.get("messages")]
+    if not samples_with_messages:
+        return
+
     try:
-        tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(tokenizer_name)
+        AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(tokenizer_name)
     except Exception:
         logger.exception(
             "ISL pre-computation: failed to load tokenizer %s; "
@@ -335,15 +341,20 @@ def _precompute_isl_for_multi_turn(
             tokenizer_name,
         )
         return
-    skipped = 0
-    first_failure_logged = False
-    for sample in dataloader.data or []:
-        messages = sample.get("messages")
-        if not messages:
-            continue
+
+    thread_local = threading.local()
+    first_failure_lock = threading.Lock()
+
+    def _get_tokenizer() -> Any:
+        if getattr(thread_local, "tokenizer", None) is None:
+            thread_local.tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(tokenizer_name)
+        return thread_local.tokenizer
+
+    def _tokenize_sample(sample: dict) -> list[int] | None:
         try:
+            tokenizer = _get_tokenizer()
             normalized_messages = []
-            for msg in messages:
+            for msg in sample["messages"]:
                 if msg.get("tool_calls"):
                     msg = {
                         **msg,
@@ -362,26 +373,47 @@ def _precompute_isl_for_multi_turn(
             # Some tokenizers (e.g. Qwen3 fast tokenizer) return BatchEncoding
             # instead of a plain list; extract .input_ids in that case.
             token_ids: list[int] = raw.input_ids if hasattr(raw, "input_ids") else raw
-            sample["input_tokens"] = token_ids
+            return token_ids
         except Exception:
-            if not first_failure_logged:
+            if first_failure_lock.acquire(blocking=False):
                 logger.exception(
                     "ISL pre-computation: apply_chat_template failed (first failure shown)"
                 )
-                first_failure_logged = True
-            skipped += 1
+            return None
+
+    n_workers = min(os.cpu_count() or 4, 8)
+    skipped = 0
+    with ThreadPoolExecutor(
+        max_workers=n_workers, thread_name_prefix="ISLPrecompute"
+    ) as pool:
+        futures = {
+            pool.submit(_tokenize_sample, sample): sample
+            for sample in samples_with_messages
+        }
+        for future in tqdm(
+            as_completed(futures),
+            total=len(futures),
+            desc="Pre-computing ISL",
+            unit="turn",
+        ):
+            sample = futures[future]
+            token_ids = future.result()
+            if token_ids is not None:
+                sample["input_tokens"] = token_ids
+            else:
+                skipped += 1
+
     if skipped:
         logger.warning(
             "ISL pre-computation: %d turn(s) skipped (apply_chat_template failed)",
             skipped,
         )
-    total_with_messages = len([s for s in (dataloader.data or []) if s.get("messages")])
-    if total_with_messages > 0 and skipped == total_with_messages:
+    if skipped == len(samples_with_messages):
         logger.warning(
             "ISL precomputation: all %d turn(s) failed apply_chat_template; "
             "ISL metrics will use text-tokenization fallback. "
             "Check tokenizer/template compatibility.",
-            total_with_messages,
+            len(samples_with_messages),
         )