diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yaml b/.github/workflows/build.yaml
index 61f7b593..9992e0a2 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yaml
@@ -148,8 +148,8 @@ jobs:
             DOCKER_LABEL=sha-${{ env.GITHUB_SHA_SHORT }}
           tags: ${{ steps.meta.outputs.tags || steps.meta-pr.outputs.tags }}
           labels: ${{ steps.meta.outputs.labels || steps.meta-pr.outputs.labels }}
-          cache-from: type=registry,ref=registry.internal.huggingface.tech/api-inference/community/text-generation-inference:cache,mode=max
-          cache-to: type=registry,ref=registry.internal.huggingface.tech/api-inference/community/text-generation-inference:cache,mode=max
+          cache-from: type=registry,ref=registry.internal.huggingface.tech/api-inference/community/text-generation-inference:cache,mode=min
+          cache-to: type=registry,ref=registry.internal.huggingface.tech/api-inference/community/text-generation-inference:cache,mode=min
       # Sign the resulting Docker image digest except on PRs.
       # This will only write to the public Rekor transparency log when the Docker
       # repository is public to avoid leaking data.
diff --git a/.github/workflows/load_test.yaml b/.github/workflows/load_test.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..10e248e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/load_test.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+name: Nightly load test
+
+on:
+  schedule:
+    - cron: '0 0 * * 1-5'
+
+  pull_request:
+    paths:
+      - ".github/workflows/load_test.yaml"
+    branches:
+      - 'main'
+
+jobs:
+  start-runner:
+    name: Start self-hosted EC2 runner
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    env:
+      AWS_REGION: us-east-1
+      EC2_AMI_ID: ami-03cfed9ea28f4b002
+      EC2_INSTANCE_TYPE: g5.12xlarge
+      EC2_SUBNET_ID: subnet-931b34f5,subnet-ecb993cd,subnet-943dc2d8,subnet-45371f1a,subnet-ee93e0df,subnet-fddc3dfc
+      EC2_SECURITY_GROUP: sg-04d472c808f365022
+    outputs:
+      label: ${{ steps.start-ec2-runner.outputs.label }}
+      ec2-instance-id: ${{ steps.start-ec2-runner.outputs.ec2-instance-id }}
+    steps:
+      - name: Configure AWS credentials
+        uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v1
+        with:
+          aws-access-key-id: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
+          aws-secret-access-key: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
+          aws-region: ${{ env.AWS_REGION }}
+      - name: Start EC2 runner
+        id: start-ec2-runner
+        uses: philschmid/philschmid-ec2-github-runner@main
+        with:
+          mode: start
+          github-token: ${{ secrets.GH_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
+          ec2-image-id: ${{ env.EC2_AMI_ID }}
+          ec2-instance-type: ${{ env.EC2_INSTANCE_TYPE }}
+          subnet-id: ${{ env.EC2_SUBNET_ID }}
+          security-group-id: ${{ env.EC2_SECURITY_GROUP }}
+          aws-resource-tags: > # optional, requires additional permissions
+            [
+              {"Key": "Name", "Value": "ec2-tgi-github-runner"},
+              {"Key": "GitHubRepository", "Value": "${{ github.repository }}"}
+            ]
+
+  load-tests:
+    concurrency:
+      group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.job }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.run_id }}
+      cancel-in-progress: true
+    needs: start-runner # required to start the main job when the runner is ready
+    runs-on: ${{ needs.start-runner.outputs.label }} # run the job on the newly created runner
+    env:
+      DOCKER_VOLUME: /cache
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+      - name: Prepare disks
+        run: |
+          sudo mkfs -t ext4 /dev/nvme1n1
+          sudo mkdir ${{ env.DOCKER_VOLUME }}
+          sudo mount /dev/nvme1n1 ${{ env.DOCKER_VOLUME }}
+
+      - name: Install k6
+        run: |
+          curl https://github.com/grafana/k6/releases/download/v0.44.0/k6-v0.44.0-linux-amd64.tar.gz -L | tar xvz --strip-components 1
+
+      - name: Start starcoder
+        run: |
+          docker run --name tgi-starcoder --rm --gpus all -p 3000:80 -v ${{ env.DOCKER_VOLUME }}:/data -e HUGGING_FACE_HUB_TOKEN=${{ secrets.HUGGING_FACE_HUB_TOKEN }} --pull always -d ghcr.io/huggingface/text-generation-inference:latest --model-id bigcode/starcoder --num-shard 2 --max-batch-total-tokens 32768
+          sleep 10
+          wget --timeout 10 --retry-on-http-error --waitretry=1 --tries=240 http://localhost:3000/health
+
+      - name: Run k6
+        run: |
+          ./k6 run load_tests/starcoder_load.js
+
+      - name: Stop starcoder
+        if: ${{ always() }}
+        run: |
+          docker stop tgi-starcoder || true
+
+  stop-runner:
+    name: Stop self-hosted EC2 runner
+    needs:
+      - start-runner
+      - load-tests
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    env:
+      AWS_REGION: us-east-1
+    if: ${{ always() }} # required to stop the runner even if the error happened in the previous jobs
+    steps:
+      - name: Configure AWS credentials
+        uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v1
+        with:
+          aws-access-key-id: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
+          aws-secret-access-key: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
+          aws-region: ${{ env.AWS_REGION }}
+      - name: Stop EC2 runner
+        uses: philschmid/philschmid-ec2-github-runner@main
+        with:
+          mode: stop
+          github-token: ${{ secrets.GH_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
+          label: ${{ needs.start-runner.outputs.label }}
+          ec2-instance-id: ${{ needs.start-runner.outputs.ec2-instance-id }}
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diff --git a/k6/load_test.js b/k6/load_test.js
deleted file mode 100644
index 516b5666..00000000
--- a/k6/load_test.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,98 +0,0 @@
-import http from 'k6/http';
-import {check, sleep} from 'k6';
-
-export const options = {
-    stages: [
-        {duration: '1m', target: 50},
-        {duration: '2m', target: 100},
-        {duration: '1m', target: 0},
-    ],
-    hosts: {
-        'text-generation-inference.huggingface.co': '127.0.0.1:3000',
-    },
-};
-const SLEEP_DURATION = 1;
-
-function greedy_example(inputs, max_new_tokens, name) {
-    let body = JSON.stringify({
-        inputs: inputs,
-        parameters: {
-            max_new_tokens: max_new_tokens,
-            do_sample: false,
-        }
-    });
-    let params = {
-        headers: {
-            'Content-Type': 'application/json',
-        },
-        tags: {
-            name: name
-        }
-    };
-    return http.post('http://text-generation-inference.huggingface.co/generate', body, params);
-}
-
-function sample_example(inputs, max_new_tokens, name) {
-    let body = JSON.stringify({
-        inputs: inputs,
-        parameters: {
-            max_new_tokens: max_new_tokens,
-            do_sample: true,
-            top_p: 0.9,
-            seed: 0
-        }
-    });
-    let params = {
-        headers: {
-            'Content-Type': 'application/json',
-        },
-        tags: {
-            name: name
-        }
-    };
-    return http.post('http://text-generation-inference.huggingface.co/generate', body, params);
-}
-
-export default function () {
-    const response_1 = sample_example('A "whatpu" is a small, furry animal native to Tanzania. An example of a sentence that uses the word whatpu is: We were traveling in Africa and we saw these very cute whatpus. To do a "farduddle" means to jump up and down really fast. An example of a sentence that uses the word farduddle is:', 32, 'example-1');
-    check(response_1, {
-        'is status 200': (r) => r.status === 200,
-    });
-    sleep(SLEEP_DURATION);
-
-    const response_2 = sample_example("A poem about the beauty of science by Alfred Edgar Brittle\\nTitle: The Magic Craft\\nIn the old times", 50, "example-2");
-    check(response_2, {
-        'is status 200': (r) => r.status === 200,
-    });
-    sleep(SLEEP_DURATION);
-
-    const response_3 = greedy_example("استخراج العدد العاملي في لغة بايثون: ", 30, "example-3");
-    check(response_3, {
-        'is status 200': (r) => r.status === 200,
-    });
-    sleep(SLEEP_DURATION);
-
-    const response_4 = sample_example("Pour déguster un ortolan, il faut tout d'abord", 32, "example-4");
-    check(response_4, {
-        'is status 200': (r) => r.status === 200,
-    });
-    sleep(SLEEP_DURATION);
-
-    const response_5 = sample_example("Traduce español de España a español de Argentina\nEl coche es rojo - el auto es rojo\nEl ordenador es nuevo - la computadora es nueva\nel boligrafo es negro -", 16, "example-5");
-    check(response_5, {
-        'is status 200': (r) => r.status === 200,
-    });
-    sleep(SLEEP_DURATION);
-
-    const response_6 = sample_example("Question: If I put cheese into the fridge, will it melt?\nAnswer:", 32, "example-6");
-    check(response_6, {
-        'is status 200': (r) => r.status === 200,
-    });
-    sleep(SLEEP_DURATION);
-
-    const response_7 = greedy_example("Question: Where does the Greek Goddess Persephone spend half of the year when she is not with her mother?\nAnswer:", 24, "example-7");
-    check(response_7, {
-        'is status 200': (r) => r.status === 200,
-    });
-    sleep(SLEEP_DURATION);
-}
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diff --git a/load_tests/starcoder_load.js b/load_tests/starcoder_load.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..76316b65
--- /dev/null
+++ b/load_tests/starcoder_load.js
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+import {check} from 'k6';
+import http from 'k6/http';
+import {Trend} from 'k6/metrics';
+
+const host = __ENV.HOST || '127.0.0.1:3000';
+
+const totalTime = new Trend('total_time', true);
+const validationTime = new Trend('validation_time', true);
+const queueTime = new Trend('queue_time', true);
+const inferenceTime = new Trend('inference_time', true);
+const timePerToken = new Trend('time_per_token', true);
+
+const example = {
+    payload: JSON.stringify({
+        inputs: '# This is a fibonacci function written in the Python programming language.' +
+            'def fibonacci',
+        parameters: {
+            details: true,
+            max_new_tokens: 60,
+            temperature: 0.2,
+            top_p: 0.95,
+            seed: 0,
+        },
+    }),
+    generated_tokens: 60
+};
+
+export const options = {
+    thresholds: {
+        http_req_failed: ['rate==0'],
+        time_per_token: ['p(95)<90'],
+        queue_time: ['p(95)<1500'],
+    },
+    scenarios: {
+        load_test: {
+            executor: 'constant-arrival-rate',
+            duration: '60s',
+            preAllocatedVUs: 100,
+            rate: 10,
+            timeUnit: '1s',
+        },
+    },
+};
+
+export default function () {
+    const headers = {'Content-Type': 'application/json'};
+    const res = http.post(`http://${host}/generate`, example.payload, {
+        headers,
+    });
+
+    check(res, {
+        'Post status is 200': (r) => res.status === 200,
+        'Post response generated tokens': (r) => res.status === 200 && res.json().details.generated_tokens === example.generated_tokens,
+    });
+
+    if (res.status === 200) {
+        totalTime.add(res.headers["X-Total-Time"]);
+        validationTime.add(res.headers["X-Validation-Time"]);
+        queueTime.add(res.headers["X-Queue-Time"]);
+        inferenceTime.add(res.headers["X-Inference-Time"]);
+        timePerToken.add(res.headers["X-Time-Per-Token"]);
+    }
+}
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