diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 1695baf9..86d5aef1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -113,8 +113,10 @@ jobs:
     # The databases depend on the climate-ref version on each side, which the lock files pin.
     - name: Key the synthetic database cache
       id: perf-db
+      env:
+        BASE_SHA: ${{ github.event.pull_request.base.sha }}
       run: |
-        key=$(cat uv.lock <(git show "origin/${{ github.base_ref }}:backend/uv.lock") | sha256sum | cut -c1-16)
+        key=$(cat uv.lock <(git show "$BASE_SHA:backend/uv.lock") | sha256sum | cut -c1-16)
         echo "key=perf-db-$key" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
 
     - name: Cache the synthetic databases
@@ -126,5 +128,6 @@ jobs:
     - name: Compare query performance against the base branch
       env:
         REF_PERF_ROUNDS: "10"
+        BASE_SHA: ${{ github.event.pull_request.base.sha }}
       run: |
-        scripts/perf-compare.sh "origin/${{ github.base_ref }}"
+        scripts/perf-compare.sh "$BASE_SHA"
diff --git a/backend/scripts/perf-compare.sh b/backend/scripts/perf-compare.sh
index 94ff3612..a90cd263 100755
--- a/backend/scripts/perf-compare.sh
+++ b/backend/scripts/perf-compare.sh
@@ -24,11 +24,16 @@ git -C "$BACKEND" worktree add --quiet --detach "$WORK/base" "$BASE"
     uv sync --locked --quiet
     uv run --with pytest-benchmark pytest "$BACKEND/tests/perf" \
         --rootdir="$BACKEND" --confcutdir="$BACKEND/tests/perf" -p no:cacheprovider -q \
-        --benchmark-storage="$STORAGE" --benchmark-save=base
-) || echo "::warning::some performance tests failed on $BASE, comparing the rest"
+        --benchmark-storage="$STORAGE" --benchmark-save=base \
+        --benchmark-json="$WORK/base.json" --junitxml="$WORK/base.xml"
+) || true
 
 cd "$BACKEND"
+status=0
 uv run pytest tests/perf -q \
     --benchmark-storage="$STORAGE" --benchmark-compare \
     --benchmark-compare-fail="median:${REF_PERF_THRESHOLD:-30}%" \
-    --benchmark-columns=median,iqr,rounds
+    --benchmark-columns=median,iqr,rounds --benchmark-json="$WORK/head.json" || status=$?
+
+python3 scripts/perf-report.py "$WORK" "$BASE" "${REF_PERF_THRESHOLD:-30}"
+exit "$status"
diff --git a/backend/scripts/perf-report.py b/backend/scripts/perf-report.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f0b4517f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend/scripts/perf-report.py
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+"""
+Summarise a `perf-compare.sh` run as a Markdown table of medians, base against this checkout.
+
+Usage: python3 scripts/perf-report.py WORK_DIR BASE THRESHOLD
+
+Reads `base.json`, `base.xml` and `head.json` from WORK_DIR.
+The table goes to stdout, and to the job summary when run in GitHub Actions.
+Each endpoint with no baseline is also named in a warning annotation.
+"""
+
+import json
+import os
+import re
+import sys
+import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
+from pathlib import Path
+
+_PARAM = re.compile(r"\[(.*)\]$")
+
+
+def _endpoint(name: str) -> str:
+    match = _PARAM.search(name)
+    return match.group(1) if match else name
+
+
+def _medians(path: Path) -> dict[str, float]:
+    if not path.exists():
+        return {}
+    benchmarks = json.loads(path.read_text())["benchmarks"]
+    return {_endpoint(b["name"]): b["stats"]["median"] * 1000 for b in benchmarks}
+
+
+def _not_run(report: Path) -> dict[str, str]:
+    """Why each endpoint has no baseline, from the base run's JUnit report."""
+    reasons = {}
+    for case in ET.parse(report).iter("testcase"):  # noqa: S314, written by our own pytest run
+        problems = [p for tag in ("failure", "error", "skipped") if (p := case.find(tag)) is not None]
+        if problems:
+            message = problems[0].get("message") or problems[0].tag
+            reasons[_endpoint(case.get("name", ""))] = message.splitlines()[0][:200].replace("|", "\\|")
+    return reasons
+
+
+def main() -> None:
+    work, base, threshold = Path(sys.argv[1]), sys.argv[2], float(sys.argv[3])
+    if re.fullmatch(r"[0-9a-f]{40}", base):
+        base = base[:12]
+    if not (work / "base.xml").exists():
+        sys.exit(f"::error::the performance tests did not run on {base}")
+
+    before, after = _medians(work / "base.json"), _medians(work / "head.json")
+    not_run = _not_run(work / "base.xml")
+    for endpoint, reason in not_run.items():
+        print(f"::warning title=Not compared::{endpoint} on {base}: {reason.replace('%', '%25')}")
+
+    rounds, scale = os.environ.get("REF_PERF_ROUNDS", "5"), os.environ.get("REF_PERF_SCALE", "0.1")
+    lines = [
+        f"### API performance against `{base}`",
+        "",
+        f"Median of {rounds} rounds at scale {scale}. More than {threshold:g}% slower fails the job.",
+        "",
+    ]
+    if not after:
+        lines.append("No endpoint ran on this branch.")
+    else:
+        lines += ["| Endpoint | Base (ms) | This branch (ms) | Change |", "| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: |"]
+        for endpoint in sorted(after):
+            if endpoint not in before:
+                reason = not_run.get(endpoint, "no result")
+                lines.append(f"| `{endpoint}` | not compared | {after[endpoint]:.1f} | {reason} |")
+                continue
+            change = round((after[endpoint] / before[endpoint] - 1) * 100)
+            flag = " **slower**" if change > threshold else ""
+            lines.append(
+                f"| `{endpoint}` | {before[endpoint]:.1f} | {after[endpoint]:.1f} | {change:+d}%{flag} |"
+            )
+
+    table = "\n".join(lines) + "\n"
+    print(table)
+    if summary := os.environ.get("GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"):
+        with open(summary, "a") as f:
+            f.write(table)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
diff --git a/backend/tests/perf/README.md b/backend/tests/perf/README.md
index 13784f1a..2f039b8d 100644
--- a/backend/tests/perf/README.md
+++ b/backend/tests/perf/README.md
@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@ make perf-compare BASE=v0.8.2   # against any ref
 
 This checks out the base in a temporary worktree and runs this branch's tests against both.
 It fails when an endpoint's median is more than `REF_PERF_THRESHOLD` percent slower than on the base, default 30.
+An endpoint that fails or skips on the base, such as one added by this branch, is not compared.
+Each one is named in a warning.
+CI writes a table of every endpoint's medians and change to the job summary, from `scripts/perf-report.py`.
 Running the same code twice locally drifts by up to about 20%, so a smaller threshold is noise.
 CI runs this on every pull request, and caches the databases until either lock file changes.
 
diff --git a/changelog/149.trivial.md b/changelog/149.trivial.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2ffcb0d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/149.trivial.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+The CI performance comparison now uses the pull request's base commit, and writes a table of every endpoint's timings to the job summary, naming each endpoint it could not compare.