diff --git a/plugin/README.md b/plugin/README.md
index 82e22d6..dc500cf 100644
--- a/plugin/README.md
+++ b/plugin/README.md
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ export default defineConfig({
 > [!IMPORTANT]
 > Sprite sheets are an **application-level** optimization — their benefits (app-wide symbol dedupe, per-symbol tree-shaking, a single sheet on a known origin) only exist when one build owns the whole module graph. A package built with tsdown emits sprite and `?file` assets into its own `dist/assets` with baked URLs that a consuming bundler will not copy or rewrite.
 >
-> Use sprite or `?file` output from tsdown only for **internal packages where the consuming app controls the deploy origin**: set the `base` option to a fixed public path, and have the app copy the package's `dist/assets` there as part of its build (see `test-projects/tsdown/internal-package`). For publicly distributed libraries, ship raw SVG files (and let the consuming app run svg-jar itself) or export inline components (`?unsafe-inline`), which need no asset serving.
+> Use sprite or `?file` output from tsdown only for **internal packages where the consuming app controls the deploy origin**: set the `base` option to a fixed public path, and have the app copy the package's `dist/assets` there as part of its build (see `test-projects/tsdown/internal-package`). If the consuming app's bundler handles `new URL(..., import.meta.url)` (Vite does), set `relativeUrls: true` instead, so sprite URLs do not depend on where the app is served. For publicly distributed libraries, ship raw SVG files (and let the consuming app run svg-jar itself) or export inline components (`?unsafe-inline`), which need no asset serving.
 
 ## Usage
 
@@ -171,6 +171,12 @@ svgJar({
   // e.g. an internal package whose dist/assets the consuming app copies to a
   // fixed public path. A trailing slash is added if missing.
   base: '/vendor/icons/',
+
+  // Emit sprite URLs as `new URL('./assets/sprite-<hash>.svg', import.meta.url)`,
+  // relative to the chunk, instead of prefixing them with `base`. The
+  // consuming app's bundler then resolves the sprite and serves it under the
+  // app's own base. Applies to sprite references in JS only. Default: false.
+  relativeUrls: false,
 });
 ```
 
diff --git a/plugin/src/core/options.ts b/plugin/src/core/options.ts
index 0752275..2de4e2b 100644
--- a/plugin/src/core/options.ts
+++ b/plugin/src/core/options.ts
@@ -81,6 +81,23 @@ export interface SvgJarOptions {
    * svgJar({ base: '/vendor/icons/' })
    */
   base?: string;
+
+  /**
+   * Emit sprite URLs relative to the chunk that uses them, as
+   * `new URL('./assets/sprite-<hash>.svg', import.meta.url).href + '#<id>'`,
+   * instead of prefixing them with `base`.
+   *
+   * Use this when building a library. The app that consumes it does not
+   * need to serve the sprite at a fixed path: its own bundler resolves the
+   * `new URL(..., import.meta.url)` reference, and serves and emits the
+   * sprite under the app's base.
+   *
+   * Applies to sprite references in JS only. `?file` imports and refs
+   * inside sprite sheets still use `base`.
+   *
+   * Default: `false`.
+   */
+  relativeUrls?: boolean;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -95,6 +112,7 @@ export interface ResolvedOptions {
   embedded: boolean | string[];
   /** Normalized base path (trailing slash ensured), or undefined to use the bundler default. */
   base: string | undefined;
+  relativeUrls: boolean;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -112,5 +130,6 @@ export function resolveOptions(options: SvgJarOptions = {}): ResolvedOptions {
     rootAttributes: options.rootAttributes ?? [...DEFAULT_ROOT_ATTRIBUTES],
     embedded: options.embedded ?? false,
     base: options.base == null ? undefined : options.base.endsWith('/') ? options.base : `${options.base}/`,
+    relativeUrls: options.relativeUrls ?? false,
   };
 }
diff --git a/plugin/src/hooks/render-chunk.ts b/plugin/src/hooks/render-chunk.ts
index 961f3b0..7e66b8d 100644
--- a/plugin/src/hooks/render-chunk.ts
+++ b/plugin/src/hooks/render-chunk.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import path from 'node:path';
 import MagicString from 'magic-string';
 import type { PluginState } from '../core/state.ts';
 import { PLACEHOLDER_RE } from '../core/constants.ts';
@@ -12,11 +13,17 @@ import { PLACEHOLDER_RE } from '../core/constants.ts';
  * Also marks each found symbol as used in the `SpriteRegistry` so that
  * `generateBundle` can tree-shake unused symbols from the sprite files.
  *
+ * With the `relativeUrls` option, the whole string literal around each
+ * placeholder becomes a `new URL(..., import.meta.url)` expression that
+ * points from the chunk to the sprite file.
+ *
  * Note: This hook is Rollup/Vite-specific. For webpack/esbuild it is
  * currently a no-op (tree-shaking deferred).
  */
-export function createRenderChunkHook(state: PluginState): (code: string) => { code: string; map?: unknown } | null {
-  return function renderChunk(code) {
+export function createRenderChunkHook(
+  state: PluginState,
+): (code: string, chunk?: { fileName: string }) => { code: string; map?: unknown } | null {
+  return function renderChunk(code, chunk) {
     // Reset the regex lastIndex since we reuse the global regex
     PLACEHOLDER_RE.lastIndex = 0;
 
@@ -32,11 +39,30 @@ export function createRenderChunkHook(state: PluginState): (code: string) => { c
 
       const spriteName = state.sprites.getSpriteName(symbolId) ?? 'sprite';
       const spriteFileName = state.sprites.getSpriteFileName(spriteName);
-      const spriteUrl = `${state.base}assets/${spriteFileName}#${symbolId}`;
+      const start = match.index;
+      const end = start + match[0].length;
+      const quote = code[start - 1];
+
+      if (state.options.relativeUrls && isQuote(quote) && code[end] === quote) {
+        const chunkDir = path.posix.dirname(chunk?.fileName ?? '');
+        const relative = path.posix.relative(chunkDir, `assets/${spriteFileName}`);
+        const spriteUrl = relative.startsWith('.') ? relative : `./${relative}`;
+
+        ms.overwrite(
+          start - 1,
+          end + 1,
+          `new URL(${JSON.stringify(spriteUrl)}, import.meta.url).href + ${JSON.stringify(`#${symbolId}`)}`,
+        );
+        continue;
+      }
 
-      ms.overwrite(match.index, match.index + match[0].length, spriteUrl);
+      ms.overwrite(start, end, `${state.base}assets/${spriteFileName}#${symbolId}`);
     }
 
     return { code: ms.toString(), map: ms.generateMap({ hires: true }) };
   };
 }
+
+function isQuote(char: string | undefined): boolean {
+  return char === '"' || char === "'" || char === '`';
+}
diff --git a/plugin/test/integration/rolldown.test.ts b/plugin/test/integration/rolldown.test.ts
index 9cb5b03..6f15a79 100644
--- a/plugin/test/integration/rolldown.test.ts
+++ b/plugin/test/integration/rolldown.test.ts
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ const ENTRY_FILE_MODE = path.join(FIXTURES_DIR, 'entry-file-mode.js');
 /**
  * Builds the test fixture with Rolldown + svg-jar plugin and returns the output.
  */
-async function build(options = {}, entry = ENTRY): Promise<RolldownOutput> {
+async function build(options = {}, entry = ENTRY, entryFileNames = '[name].js'): Promise<RolldownOutput> {
   const bundle = await rolldown({
     input: entry,
     plugins: [SvgJarPlugin.rolldown(options)],
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ async function build(options = {}, entry = ENTRY): Promise<RolldownOutput> {
     // package name, which is not resolvable from inside the package itself.
     external: [/^@svg-jar\/plugin\/runtime\//],
   });
-  return bundle.generate({ format: 'esm' });
+  return bundle.generate({ format: 'esm', entryFileNames });
 }
 
 function findChunk(output: RolldownOutput) {
@@ -103,4 +103,27 @@ describe('Rolldown integration', () => {
       expect(findChunk(fileOutput).code).toMatch(/\/vendor\/icons\/assets\/simple-[a-f0-9]+\.svg/);
     });
   });
+
+  describe('relativeUrls option', () => {
+    it('points sprite URLs at the sprite file relative to the chunk', async () => {
+      const code = findChunk(await build({ target: 'dom', relativeUrls: true, base: '/ignored/' })).code;
+
+      PLACEHOLDER_RE.lastIndex = 0;
+      expect(code).not.toMatch(PLACEHOLDER_RE);
+      expect(code).not.toContain('/ignored/');
+      expect(code).toMatch(/new URL\("\.\/assets\/sprite-[a-f0-9]+\.svg", import\.meta\.url\)\.href \+ "#[a-f0-9]+"/);
+    });
+
+    it('walks up from a chunk in a subdirectory', async () => {
+      const code = findChunk(await build({ target: 'dom', relativeUrls: true }, ENTRY, 'nested/[name].js')).code;
+
+      expect(code).toMatch(/new URL\("\.\.\/assets\/sprite-[a-f0-9]+\.svg", import\.meta\.url\)/);
+    });
+
+    it('still emits the sprite into assets/', async () => {
+      const output = await build({ target: 'dom', relativeUrls: true });
+
+      expect(findAsset(output, (f) => /^assets\/sprite-[a-f0-9]+\.svg$/.test(f))).toBeDefined();
+    });
+  });
 });
diff --git a/plugin/test/unit/options.test.ts b/plugin/test/unit/options.test.ts
index 3a3f0b1..04692de 100644
--- a/plugin/test/unit/options.test.ts
+++ b/plugin/test/unit/options.test.ts
@@ -77,4 +77,14 @@ describe('resolveOptions', () => {
       expect(resolveOptions({ base: '/vendor/icons' }).base).toBe('/vendor/icons/');
     });
   });
+
+  describe('relativeUrls', () => {
+    it('defaults to false', () => {
+      expect(resolveOptions({}).relativeUrls).toBe(false);
+    });
+
+    it('preserves true', () => {
+      expect(resolveOptions({ relativeUrls: true }).relativeUrls).toBe(true);
+    });
+  });
 });