diff --git a/run-bench.py b/run-bench.py
index cf86d0da..04946393 100644
--- a/run-bench.py
+++ b/run-bench.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
 parser.add_argument('--branchcompare', action='store_true', help='Compare benchmarks of current branch with main. Provide an optional --filter')
+parser.add_argument("-b", '--branch', type=str, default="main", required=False)
 parser.add_argument('--benchcompare', type=str, help='Compare simd bench with stdsort methods. Requires one of qsort, qselect, partialsort, argsort or argselect')
 parser.add_argument("-f", '--filter', type=str, required=False)
 args = parser.parse_args()
@@ -36,7 +37,8 @@
     rc = subprocess.check_call("./scripts/bench-compare.sh '%s' '%s'" % (baseline, contender), shell=True)
 
 if args.branchcompare:
+    branch = args.branch
     if args.filter is None:
-        rc = subprocess.call("./scripts/branch-compare.sh")
+        rc = subprocess.check_call("./scripts/branch-compare.sh '%s'" % (branch), shell=True)
     else:
-        rc = subprocess.check_call("./scripts/branch-compare.sh '%s'" % args.filter, shell=True)
+        rc = subprocess.check_call("./scripts/branch-compare.sh '%s' '%s'" % (branch, args.filter), shell=True)
diff --git a/scripts/branch-compare.sh b/scripts/branch-compare.sh
index 6b6b6610..91d3c681 100755
--- a/scripts/branch-compare.sh
+++ b/scripts/branch-compare.sh
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ BASE_DIR=$(dirname $SCRIPT_DIR)
 branch=$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)
 #br_commit=$(git rev-parse $branch)
 #main_commit=$(git rev-parse main)
-echo "Comparing main branch with $branch"
+basebranch=$1
+echo "Comparing $basebranch branch with $branch"
 
 build_branch() {
     dir_name=$1
@@ -39,14 +40,14 @@ if [ ! -d google-benchmark ]; then
 fi
 compare=$(realpath google-benchmark/tools/compare.py)
 build_branch $branch
-build_branch "main"
+build_branch $basebranch
 contender=$(realpath ${branch}/builddir/benchexe)
-baseline=$(realpath main/builddir/benchexe)
+baseline=$(realpath ${basebranch}/builddir/benchexe)
 
-if [ -z "$1" ]; then
+if [ -z "$2" ]; then
     echo "Comparing all benchmarks .."
     $compare benchmarks $baseline $contender
 else
-    echo "Comparing benchmark $1 .."
-    $compare benchmarksfiltered $baseline $1 $contender $1
+    echo "Comparing benchmark $2 .."
+    $compare benchmarksfiltered $baseline $2 $contender $2
 fi