diff --git a/packages/browser-utils/src/index.ts b/packages/browser-utils/src/index.ts
index 52da63c3d6b6..ef64f0a5bc70 100644
--- a/packages/browser-utils/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/browser-utils/src/index.ts
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ export {
 export { elementTimingIntegration, startTrackingElementTiming } from './performance/elementTiming';
 
 export { interactionsIntegration } from './performance/interactions';
+export { longTasksIntegration } from './performance/longTasks';
 
 export { isBotUserAgent } from './isBotUserAgent';
 
diff --git a/packages/browser-utils/src/performance/longTasks.ts b/packages/browser-utils/src/performance/longTasks.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d95d3d59a9fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/browser-utils/src/performance/longTasks.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+import type { IntegrationFn } from '@sentry/core';
+import { defineIntegration, GLOBAL_OBJ } from '@sentry/core';
+import { startTrackingLongAnimationFrames, startTrackingLongTasks } from './entries';
+
+interface LongTasksOptions {
+  /**
+   * If true, long tasks are captured as spans when long animation frames are disabled or not supported.
+   *
+   * Default: true
+   */
+  enableLongTask?: boolean;
+
+  /**
+   * If true, long animation frames are captured as spans in browsers that support them.
+   *
+   * Default: true
+   */
+  enableLongAnimationFrame?: boolean;
+}
+
+const INTEGRATION_NAME = 'LongTasks';
+
+const _longTasksIntegration = ((options: LongTasksOptions = {}) => {
+  const { enableLongTask = true, enableLongAnimationFrame = true } = options;
+
+  return {
+    name: INTEGRATION_NAME,
+    setup() {
+      if (
+        enableLongAnimationFrame &&
+        GLOBAL_OBJ.PerformanceObserver &&
+        PerformanceObserver.supportedEntryTypes?.includes('long-animation-frame')
+      ) {
+        startTrackingLongAnimationFrames();
+      } else if (enableLongTask) {
+        startTrackingLongTasks();
+      }
+    },
+  };
+}) satisfies IntegrationFn;
+
+/**
+ * Captures long animation frames, or long tasks where those are not supported, as spans on the active span.
+ */
+export const longTasksIntegration = defineIntegration(_longTasksIntegration);
diff --git a/packages/browser/src/index.ts b/packages/browser/src/index.ts
index ffda26d539ff..0cab1fdf912f 100644
--- a/packages/browser/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/browser/src/index.ts
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ export {
 } from '@sentry/browser-utils';
 export type { CachedRouteProvider, RouteProvider } from '@sentry/browser-utils';
 export { interactionsIntegration } from './integrations/interactions';
+export { longTasksIntegration } from './integrations/longTasks';
 
 export type { RequestInstrumentationOptions } from './tracing/request';
 export {
diff --git a/packages/browser/src/integrations/longTasks.ts b/packages/browser/src/integrations/longTasks.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6801fdbe57fa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/browser/src/integrations/longTasks.ts
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+export { longTasksIntegration } from '@sentry/browser-utils';
diff --git a/packages/browser/src/tracing/browserTracingIntegration.ts b/packages/browser/src/tracing/browserTracingIntegration.ts
index 25ab7da3d44d..252a27032b2f 100644
--- a/packages/browser/src/tracing/browserTracingIntegration.ts
+++ b/packages/browser/src/tracing/browserTracingIntegration.ts
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ import {
   getClient,
   getCurrentScope,
   getDynamicSamplingContextFromSpan,
-  GLOBAL_OBJ,
   hasSpansEnabled,
   hasSpanStreamingEnabled,
   NAVIGATION_SPAN_NAME_FALLBACK,
@@ -36,11 +35,10 @@ import {
 import { _INTERNAL_ensureBrowserSpanStreaming, startIdleSpan, startInactiveSpan } from '@sentry/core/browser';
 import {
   addHistoryInstrumentationHandler,
+  longTasksIntegration,
   addPerformanceEntries,
   getLocationHref,
   isBotUserAgent,
-  startTrackingLongAnimationFrames,
-  startTrackingLongTasks,
 } from '@sentry/browser-utils';
 import { BROWSER_NAVIGATION_TYPE } from '@sentry/conventions/attributes';
 import { DEBUG_BUILD } from '../debug-build';
@@ -286,7 +284,10 @@ export interface BrowserTracingOptions {
  * Options for `browserTracingCoreIntegration`: the options of `browserTracingIntegration`, minus the ones
  * for features that `browserTracingIntegration` registers as standalone integrations.
  */
-export type BrowserTracingCoreOptions = Omit<BrowserTracingOptions, 'enableInp' | 'webVitals' | 'enableElementTiming'>;
+export type BrowserTracingCoreOptions = Omit<
+  BrowserTracingOptions,
+  'enableInp' | 'webVitals' | 'enableElementTiming' | 'enableLongTask' | 'enableLongAnimationFrame'
+>;
 
 const DEFAULT_BROWSER_TRACING_OPTIONS: BrowserTracingCoreOptions = {
   ...TRACING_DEFAULTS,
@@ -294,8 +295,6 @@ const DEFAULT_BROWSER_TRACING_OPTIONS: BrowserTracingCoreOptions = {
   instrumentBfcacheRestore: true,
   instrumentPageLoad: true,
   markBackgroundSpan: true,
-  enableLongTask: true,
-  enableLongAnimationFrame: true,
   ignoreResourceSpans: [],
   detectRedirects: true,
   linkPreviousTrace: 'in-memory',
@@ -324,7 +323,7 @@ export const browserTracingIntegration = ((options: Partial<BrowserTracingOption
   }
 
   // oxlint-disable-next-line typescript/no-deprecated -- still honoured until it is removed
-  const { enableInp = true, webVitals } = options;
+  const { enableInp = true, webVitals, enableLongTask = true, enableLongAnimationFrame = true } = options;
 
   return _browserTracingIntegration(options, client => {
     // Custom clients and test doubles may not implement it.
@@ -339,6 +338,10 @@ export const browserTracingIntegration = ((options: Partial<BrowserTracingOption
         ignore: enableInp || ignore.includes('inp') ? ignore : [...ignore, 'inp'],
       }),
     );
+
+    if (enableLongTask || enableLongAnimationFrame) {
+      client.addIntegration(longTasksIntegration({ enableLongTask, enableLongAnimationFrame }));
+    }
   });
 }) satisfies IntegrationFn;
 
@@ -363,8 +366,6 @@ function _browserTracingIntegration(
   const optionalWindowDocument = WINDOW.document as (typeof WINDOW)['document'] | undefined;
 
   const {
-    enableLongTask,
-    enableLongAnimationFrame,
     beforeStartSpan,
     idleTimeout,
     finalTimeout,
@@ -475,16 +476,6 @@ function _browserTracingIntegration(
 
       registerSpanErrorInstrumentation();
 
-      if (
-        enableLongAnimationFrame &&
-        GLOBAL_OBJ.PerformanceObserver &&
-        PerformanceObserver.supportedEntryTypes?.includes('long-animation-frame')
-      ) {
-        startTrackingLongAnimationFrames();
-      } else if (enableLongTask) {
-        startTrackingLongTasks();
-      }
-
       if (detectRedirects && optionalWindowDocument) {
         const interactionHandler = (): void => {
           lastInteractionTimestamp = timestampInSeconds();
diff --git a/packages/browser/test/tracing/browserTracingIntegration.test.ts b/packages/browser/test/tracing/browserTracingIntegration.test.ts
index 927080f1755b..0ad2754a5ea4 100644
--- a/packages/browser/test/tracing/browserTracingIntegration.test.ts
+++ b/packages/browser/test/tracing/browserTracingIntegration.test.ts
@@ -225,6 +225,27 @@ describe('browserTracingIntegration', () => {
     expect(client.getIntegrationByName('WebVitals')).toBeUndefined();
   });
 
+  it.each([
+    ['registers longTasksIntegration by default', {}, true],
+    ['registers longTasksIntegration with only long tasks enabled', { enableLongAnimationFrame: false }, true],
+    [
+      'does not register longTasksIntegration when both options are off',
+      { enableLongTask: false, enableLongAnimationFrame: false },
+      false,
+    ],
+  ])('%s', (_name, options, registered) => {
+    const client = new BrowserClient(
+      getDefaultBrowserClientOptions({
+        tracesSampleRate: 1,
+        integrations: [browserTracingIntegration(options)],
+      }),
+    );
+    setCurrentClient(client);
+    client.init();
+
+    expect(!!client.getIntegrationByName('LongTasks')).toBe(registered);
+  });
+
   it('keeps the webVitalsIntegration the user supplies', () => {
     const userWebVitals = webVitalsModule.webVitalsIntegration({ softNavigations: false });