diff --git a/src/categories.ts b/src/categories.ts
index ab2f5964c6446b..1a09398173a09e 100644
--- a/src/categories.ts
+++ b/src/categories.ts
@@ -20,3 +20,13 @@ export function hasServerCategory(categories?: PlatformCategory[] | null): boole
 export function hasBrowserCategory(categories?: PlatformCategory[] | null): boolean {
   return !!categories?.includes('browser');
 }
+
+/** Whether the platform/guide runs exclusively in the browser (no server side). */
+export function isBrowserOnly(categories?: PlatformCategory[] | null): boolean {
+  return !!categories?.includes('browser-only');
+}
+
+/** Whether the platform/guide runs exclusively on a server (no browser side). */
+export function isServerOnly(categories?: PlatformCategory[] | null): boolean {
+  return !!categories?.includes('server-only');
+}
diff --git a/src/components/sdkOption.tsx b/src/components/sdkOption.tsx
index 1b8a405b10dec0..c2aa88a748a950 100644
--- a/src/components/sdkOption.tsx
+++ b/src/components/sdkOption.tsx
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
-import {hasBrowserCategory, hasServerCategory} from 'sentry-docs/categories';
+import {
+  hasBrowserCategory,
+  hasServerCategory,
+  isBrowserOnly,
+  isServerOnly,
+} from 'sentry-docs/categories';
 import {getCurrentPlatformOrGuide} from 'sentry-docs/docTree';
 import {serverContext} from 'sentry-docs/serverContext';
 import {PlatformCategory} from 'sentry-docs/types';
@@ -96,12 +101,14 @@ export function getPlatformHints(categorySupported: PlatformCategory[]) {
   const supportedServerLikeOnly =
     !hasBrowserCategory(categorySupported) && hasServerCategory(categorySupported);
 
+  // Only surface the runtime hint when it adds information. On a single-runtime
+  // platform the option's runtime is already implied (a browser-only platform
+  // needs no "client only" note, a server-only one no "server only" note), so
+  // we show it on dual-runtime platforms (meta-frameworks) instead.
   const showBrowserOnly =
-    hasCategorySupported && supportedBrowserOnly && hasServerCategory(currentCategories);
+    hasCategorySupported && supportedBrowserOnly && !isBrowserOnly(currentCategories);
   const showServerLikeOnly =
-    hasCategorySupported &&
-    supportedServerLikeOnly &&
-    hasBrowserCategory(currentCategories);
+    hasCategorySupported && supportedServerLikeOnly && !isServerOnly(currentCategories);
 
   return {showBrowserOnly, showServerLikeOnly};
 }