diff --git a/perf/throughput/rusqlite/scripts/bench.sh b/perf/throughput/rusqlite/scripts/bench.sh
index a4efcc6e5..7d9f13207 100755
--- a/perf/throughput/rusqlite/scripts/bench.sh
+++ b/perf/throughput/rusqlite/scripts/bench.sh
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ echo "system,threads,batch_size,compute,throughput"
 
 for threads in 1 2 4 8; do
   for compute in 0 100 500 1000; do
+      rm -f write_throughput_test.db*
       ../../../target/release/write-throughput-sqlite --threads ${threads} --batch-size 100 --compute ${compute} -i 1000
   done
 done
diff --git a/perf/throughput/turso/scripts/bench.sh b/perf/throughput/turso/scripts/bench.sh
index 6d6f75d4b..27ad51e0b 100755
--- a/perf/throughput/turso/scripts/bench.sh
+++ b/perf/throughput/turso/scripts/bench.sh
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ echo "system,threads,batch_size,compute,throughput"
 
 for threads in 1 2 4 8; do
   for compute in 0 100 500 1000; do
+      rm -f write_throughput_test.db*
       ../../../target/release/write-throughput --threads ${threads} --batch-size 100 --compute ${compute} -i 1000 --mode concurrent
   done
 done