diff --git a/MaxText/configs/base.yml b/MaxText/configs/base.yml
index adaf15b55..df3ece6bb 100644
--- a/MaxText/configs/base.yml
+++ b/MaxText/configs/base.yml
@@ -264,3 +264,8 @@ vertex_tensorboard_region: ""
 
 # If set to True, MaxText will perform extra checks using jax.checkify. Note that this will effect performance. 
 max_checkify: False
+
+# Inference
+inference_microbenchmark_prefill_lengths: "64,128,256,512,1024"
+inference_microbenchmark_stages: "prefill,generate"
+inference_microbenchmark_loop_iters: 10
diff --git a/MaxText/inference_microbenchmark.py b/MaxText/inference_microbenchmark.py
index 8fe46b3e2..232129932 100644
--- a/MaxText/inference_microbenchmark.py
+++ b/MaxText/inference_microbenchmark.py
@@ -21,26 +21,13 @@
 import sys
 
 from jetstream.engine import token_utils
+
 import max_utils
 import maxengine
 import maxtext_utils
 import pyconfig
 
 
-def summarize_pytree_data(params, name="Params"):
-  """Generate basic metrics of a given Pytree."""
-  num_params, total_param_size, avg_param_size = max_utils.summarize_size_from_pytree(params)
-  num_params_in_billions = num_params / 1e9
-  total_param_size_in_gb = total_param_size / 1e9
-  print(
-      f"{name} stats: \n"
-      f"\tTotal number of params: {num_params_in_billions:.3f} billion \n"
-      f"\tTotal memory usage: {total_param_size_in_gb:.3f} GB \n"
-      f"\tAvg size: {avg_param_size:.3f} bytes\n"
-  )
-  return num_params, total_param_size, avg_param_size
-
-
 def prefill_benchmark_loop(config, engine, decode_state, params, tokens, true_length, iters, profile_name=""):
   """Inner loop for benchmarking prefill step."""
   max_utils.activate_profiler(config, profile_name)
@@ -49,24 +36,29 @@ def prefill_benchmark_loop(config, engine, decode_state, params, tokens, true_le
     slot = int(i % (jax.device_count() * config.per_device_batch_size))
     prefill_result = engine.prefill(params=params, padded_tokens=tokens, true_length=true_length)
     decode_state = engine.insert(prefill_result, decode_state, slot=slot)
+    max_utils.delete_pytree(prefill_result)
   jax.block_until_ready(decode_state)
   end = datetime.datetime.now()
   max_utils.deactivate_profiler(config)
   return (end - start).total_seconds(), decode_state
 
-
 def prefill_benchmark(
     config, engine, params, decode_state, tokens, true_length, iters=100, profile_name="", num_model_params=None
 ):
   """Handles init, warmup, running prefill benchmark, and printing results."""
   if num_model_params is None:
-    num_model_params, _, _ = summarize_pytree_data(params, name="Params")
+    num_model_params, _, _ = max_utils.summarize_pytree_data(params, name="Params")
 
   prefill_result = engine.prefill(params=params, padded_tokens=tokens, true_length=true_length)
   decode_state = engine.insert(prefill_result, decode_state, slot=0)
-  jax.block_until_ready(decode_state)
+  max_utils.summarize_pytree_data(prefill_result["logits"], name="Prefill Logits", raw=True)
+  max_utils.summarize_pytree_data(prefill_result["cache"], name="Prefill Cache")
+  max_utils.summarize_pytree_data(prefill_result["next_pos"], name="Prefill Next pos", raw=True)
+  max_utils.summarize_pytree_data(prefill_result["generated_tokens"], name="Prefill Generated Tokens", raw=True)
+  max_utils.delete_pytree(prefill_result)
   prefill_result = engine.prefill(params=params, padded_tokens=tokens, true_length=true_length)
   decode_state = engine.insert(prefill_result, decode_state, slot=0)
+  max_utils.delete_pytree(prefill_result)
   jax.block_until_ready(decode_state)
 
   print(f"Prefill results for length {tokens.size}:\n")
@@ -106,9 +98,9 @@ def ar_benchmark_loop(config, engine, decode_state, params, iters, profile_name=
 def ar_benchmark(config, engine, params, decode_state, cache_size=None, model_size=None, profile_name="", iters=100):
   """Handles init, warmup, running ar benchmark, and printing results."""
   if cache_size is None:
-    _, cache_size, _ = summarize_pytree_data(decode_state["cache"], name="Cache")
+    _, cache_size, _ = max_utils.summarize_pytree_data(decode_state["cache"], name="Cache")
   if model_size is None:
-    _, model_size, _ = summarize_pytree_data(params, name="Params")
+    _, model_size, _ = max_utils.summarize_pytree_data(params, name="Params")
   global_batch_size = jax.device_count() * config.per_device_batch_size
 
   # Warmup
@@ -165,43 +157,52 @@ def write_results(results, filename=""):
 
 
 def print_results_for_analyze(results):
-  prefill_bucket_size_to_ms = {}
-  for k, v in results["Prefill"].items():
-    prefill_bucket_size_to_ms[int(k)] = round(v["prefill_time_in_ms"], 3)
-  print("\nFor usage in analyze_sharegpt.py :")
-  print(f"PREFILL_BUCKET_SIZE_TO_MS = {prefill_bucket_size_to_ms}")
-  print(f"SYSTEM_TIME_PER_DECODE_TOKEN_MS = {results['AutoRegressive']['ar_step_in_ms_per_seq']}")
+  if "Prefill" in results:
+    prefill_bucket_size_to_ms = {}
+    for k, v in results["Prefill"].items():
+      prefill_bucket_size_to_ms[int(k)] = round(v["prefill_time_in_ms"], 3)
+    print("\nFor usage in analyze_sharegpt.py :")
+    print(f"PREFILL_BUCKET_SIZE_TO_MS = {prefill_bucket_size_to_ms}")
+
+  if "AutoRegressive" in results:
+    print(f"SYSTEM_TIME_PER_DECODE_TOKEN_MS = {results['AutoRegressive']['ar_step_in_ms_per_seq']}")
 
 
 def main(config):
   engine = maxengine.MaxEngine(config)
   params = engine.load_params()
-  prefill_lengths = [64, 128, 256, 512, 1024]
-  benchmark_loop_iters = 10
+  prefill_lengths = [int(l) for l in config.inference_microbenchmark_prefill_lengths.split(",")]
+  stages_to_benchmark = config.inference_microbenchmark_stages.split(",")
+  benchmark_loop_iters = config.inference_microbenchmark_loop_iters
+
   text = config.prompt
   metadata = engine.get_tokenizer()
   vocab = token_utils.load_vocab(metadata.path, metadata.extra_ids)
 
   decode_state = engine.init_decode_state()
-  _, cache_size, _ = summarize_pytree_data(decode_state["cache"], name="Cache")
-  num_model_params, model_size, _ = summarize_pytree_data(params, name="Model")
-
-  benchmark_results = {"Prefill": {}}
-  benchmark_results["AutoRegressive"], decode_state = ar_benchmark(
-      config, engine, params, decode_state, iters=benchmark_loop_iters, cache_size=cache_size, model_size=model_size
-  )
-  for prefill_length in prefill_lengths:
-    tokens, true_length = token_utils.tokenize_and_pad(text, vocab, is_bos=True, prefill_lengths=[prefill_length])
-    benchmark_results["Prefill"][prefill_length], decode_state = prefill_benchmark(
-        config,
-        engine,
-        params,
-        decode_state,
-        tokens,
-        true_length,
-        iters=benchmark_loop_iters,
-        num_model_params=num_model_params,
-    )
+  _, cache_size, _ = max_utils.summarize_pytree_data(decode_state["cache"], name="Cache")
+  num_model_params, model_size, _ = max_utils.summarize_pytree_data(params, name="Model")
+
+  benchmark_results = {}
+  if "prefill" in stages_to_benchmark:
+    benchmark_results["Prefill"] = {}
+    for prefill_length in prefill_lengths:
+      tokens, true_length = token_utils.tokenize_and_pad(
+        text, vocab, is_bos=True, prefill_lengths=[prefill_length])
+      benchmark_results["Prefill"][prefill_length], decode_state = prefill_benchmark(
+          config,
+          engine,
+          params,
+          decode_state,
+          tokens,
+          true_length,
+          iters=benchmark_loop_iters,
+          num_model_params=num_model_params
+      )
+
+  if "generate" in stages_to_benchmark:
+    benchmark_results["AutoRegressive"], decode_state = ar_benchmark(
+      config, engine, params, decode_state, iters=benchmark_loop_iters, cache_size=cache_size, model_size=model_size)
 
   results = collate_results(config, benchmark_results, model_size, cache_size, num_model_params)
   write_results(results, filename="")
diff --git a/MaxText/max_utils.py b/MaxText/max_utils.py
index 2e218c48a..d4de84b41 100644
--- a/MaxText/max_utils.py
+++ b/MaxText/max_utils.py
@@ -652,3 +652,30 @@ def get_project():
     max_logging.log("You must specify config.vertex_tensorboard_project or set 'gcloud config set project <project>'")
     return None
   return project_outputs[-1]
+
+
+def delete_pytree(p):
+  def delete_leaf(leaf):
+    if isinstance(leaf, jax.Array):
+      leaf.delete()
+    del leaf
+
+  jax.tree_map(delete_leaf, p)
+
+
+def summarize_pytree_data(params, name="Params", raw=False):
+  """Generate basic metrics of a given Pytree."""
+  num_params, total_param_size, avg_param_size = summarize_size_from_pytree(params)
+  if not raw:
+    num_params_in_billions = num_params / 1e9
+    total_param_size_in_gb = total_param_size / 1e9
+    print(f"{name} stats: \n"
+          f"\tTotal number of params: {num_params_in_billions:.3f} billion \n"	
+          f"\tTotal memory usage: {total_param_size_in_gb:.3f} GB \n"	
+          f"\tAvg size: {avg_param_size:.3f} bytes\n")	
+  else:
+    print(f"{name} stats: \n"
+            f"\tTotal number of params: {num_params:.3f} \n"
+            f"\tTotal memory usage: {total_param_size:.3f} bytes \n"
+            f"\tAvg size: {avg_param_size:.3f} bytes\n")
+  return num_params, total_param_size, avg_param_size