diff --git a/.size-limit.js b/.size-limit.js
index d589cfccdc65..6ef49dad2033 100644
--- a/.size-limit.js
+++ b/.size-limit.js
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ module.exports = [
     path: createCDNPath('bundle.logs.metrics.min.js'),
     gzip: false,
     brotli: false,
-    limit: '100 KB',
+    limit: '101 KB',
     disablePlugins: ['@size-limit/esbuild'],
   },
   {
diff --git a/MIGRATION.md b/MIGRATION.md
index 438b2572f682..4afed9dee58b 100644
--- a/MIGRATION.md
+++ b/MIGRATION.md
@@ -120,15 +120,161 @@ The same applies to the no-code entry points, e.g. `node --import=@sentry/node/i
 
 Affected SDKs: All SDKs.
 
-Each span is sent to Sentry the moment it finishes instead of being buffered until the root span completes. This means spans are no longer bound by the 1000-span per transaction limit and their individual payload-size limits have been increased.
+Spans are now sent to Sentry in small batches instead of being buffered until the root span completes.
+This means spans are no longer bound by the 1000-span per transaction limit and their individual payload-size limits have been increased.
 
-The new model comes with some changes to Sentry hooks such as `beforeSendSpan` or options like `ignoreSpans` and requires manual migration. `beforeSendTransaction` and `ignoreTransactions` will **no-op**. Users who cannot migrate yet can opt into the previous transaction-based static model.
+The new model comes with some changes to Sentry hooks such as `beforeSendSpan` or options like `ignoreSpans` and requires manual migration.
+The `beforeSendTransaction` and `ignoreTransactions` options will **no-op**.
+If you cannot migrate to span streaming yet, you can opt into the previous transaction-based static model.
 
-> **TODO(v11):** The migration path for span streaming is still being defined. Document:
->
-> - the concrete before/after for `beforeSendSpan` and `ignoreSpans`,
-> - the exact replacement for `beforeSendTransaction` / `ignoreTransactions`,
-> - how to opt back into the transaction-based model (option name + example).
+#### `beforeSendSpan` receives the streamed span format
+
+Your `beforeSendSpan` callback now receives a `StreamedSpanJSON` object and is invoked as each span finishes, rather than for all spans of a transaction right before that transaction is sent. As in v10, it is invoked for the root span as well as for child spans.
+
+The payload fields were renamed:
+
+| Before (`SpanJSON`) | After (`StreamedSpanJSON`)     |
+| ------------------- | ------------------------------ |
+| `description`       | `name`                         |
+| `data`              | `attributes`                   |
+| `op`                | `attributes['sentry.op']`      |
+| `timestamp`         | `end_timestamp`                |
+| `status` (`string`) | `status` (`'ok'` or `'error'`) |
+
+The `status` field, now only contains two statuses: `'ok'` and `'error'`.
+Streamed spans always have a status (while status was optional on transaction-based spans).
+Previously more fine-grained error statuses are now mapped to `'error'`.
+Additional error information may be set via span attributes (e.g. `sentry.status.message`).
+
+```js
+// Before
+Sentry.init({
+  beforeSendSpan: span => {
+    if (span.op === 'db.query') {
+      span.description = scrub(span.description);
+      span.data['db.statement'] = scrub(span.data['db.statement']);
+    }
+    return span;
+  },
+});
+
+// After
+Sentry.init({
+  beforeSendSpan: span => {
+    if (span.attributes?.['sentry.op'] === 'db.query') {
+      span.name = scrub(span.name);
+      span.attributes['db.statement'] = scrub(span.attributes['db.statement']);
+    }
+    return span;
+  },
+});
+```
+
+Returning `null` to drop a span was already disallowed in v9 and remains a no-op. Use `ignoreSpans` to filter spans.
+
+If you cannot migrate the callback yet, opt out of span streaming and wrap `beforeSendSpan` with `Sentry.withStaticSpan()`:
+
+```js
+Sentry.init({
+  traceLifecycle: 'static',
+  beforeSendSpan: Sentry.withStaticSpan(span => {
+    span.description = scrub(span.description);
+    return span;
+  }),
+});
+```
+
+A `beforeSendSpan` callback that does not match the configured `traceLifecycle` is **never invoked** — an unwrapped callback is ignored in `'static'` mode, and a `withStaticSpan`-wrapped callback is ignored in `'stream'` mode. Enable debug logging to surface a warning about the mismatch. Previously, an incompatible callback silently downgraded the SDK to the static lifecycle instead.
+
+The `withStreamedSpan()` helper is now a no-op, since streamed payloads are the default. It is deprecated and will be removed in v12. You can remove the wrapper:
+
+```js
+// Before
+beforeSendSpan: Sentry.withStreamedSpan(span => span);
+
+// After
+beforeSendSpan: span => span;
+```
+
+The internal `isStreamedBeforeSendSpanCallback()` function from `@sentry/core` was removed.
+
+#### Replacing `beforeSendTransaction`
+
+`beforeSendTransaction` no-ops because no transaction events are produced.
+For **scrubbing and data modification**, move the logic to `beforeSendSpan` and guard on `is_segment` to target what used to be the transaction
+For **dropping** a transaction or child spans, use `ignoreSpans` (see below). The `beforeSendSpan` callback cannot drop spans.
+
+```js
+// Before
+Sentry.init({
+  beforeSendTransaction: event => {
+    if (event.transaction === 'GET /health') {
+      return null;
+    }
+    event.transaction = scrubIds(event.transaction);
+    return event;
+  },
+});
+
+// After
+Sentry.init({
+  ignoreSpans: [
+    'GET /health'
+  ]
+  beforeSendSpan: span => {
+    if (span.is_segment) {
+      span.name = scrubIds(span.name);
+    }
+    return span;
+  },
+});
+```
+
+Note that scope `tags` and `extra` are not carried over to streamed spans, since spans only have attributes. Use `Sentry.setAttribute()` / `Sentry.setAttributes()` instead.
+
+#### Replacing `ignoreTransactions` with `ignoreSpans`
+
+`ignoreTransactions` no-ops. Use `ignoreSpans` to match the segment span instead: when a segment span is ignored, all of its child spans are dropped with it, which is equivalent to dropping the whole transaction.
+
+```js
+// Before
+Sentry.init({
+  ignoreTransactions: ['GET /health'],
+});
+
+// After
+Sentry.init({
+  ignoreSpans: ['GET /health'],
+});
+```
+
+`ignoreSpans` matches on the span `name` (formerly `description`). Because it applies to every span rather than just to root spans, consider narrowing the filter with the object form so that child spans sharing a name are not dropped as collateral:
+
+```js
+Sentry.init({
+  ignoreSpans: [{ name: 'GET /health', attributes: { 'sentry.op': 'http.server' } }],
+});
+```
+
+`ignoreSpans` itself is unchanged in shape, but it now takes effect when a span **starts** rather than when the transaction is sent. Matched spans are never recorded at all, which means a matched non-segment span's children are re-parented to its parent instead of being dropped.
+
+#### Opting out of span streaming
+
+To keep the previous transaction-based model, set `traceLifecycle: 'static'`:
+
+```js
+Sentry.init({
+  traceLifecycle: 'static',
+
+  // `beforeSendSpan` MUST be wrapped with Sentry.withStaticSpan:
+  beforeSendSpan: Sentry.withStaticSpan(span => {
+    span.description = scrub(span.description);
+    return span;
+  }),
+});
+```
+
+In Node, Bun, Vercel Edge and Cloudflare you can also set the `SENTRY_TRACE_LIFECYCLE=static` environment variable instead. The static lifecycle only exists for backwards compatibility and is planned for removal in a future major version, so treat this as a temporary measure.
 
 ### Logs are enabled by default
 
diff --git a/dev-packages/browser-integration-tests/suites/public-api/beforeSendSpan-streamed/init.js b/dev-packages/browser-integration-tests/suites/public-api/beforeSendSpan-streamed/init.js
index f099c1f61c3e..a3fae7e92b48 100644
--- a/dev-packages/browser-integration-tests/suites/public-api/beforeSendSpan-streamed/init.js
+++ b/dev-packages/browser-integration-tests/suites/public-api/beforeSendSpan-streamed/init.js
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ window.Sentry = Sentry;
 
 Sentry.init({
   dsn: 'https://public@dsn.ingest.sentry.io/1337',
-  integrations: [Sentry.browserTracingIntegration(), Sentry.spanStreamingIntegration()],
+  integrations: [Sentry.browserTracingIntegration()],
   tracesSampleRate: 1,
-  beforeSendSpan: Sentry.withStreamedSpan(span => {
+  beforeSendSpan: span => {
     if (span.attributes['sentry.op'] === 'pageload') {
       span.name = 'customPageloadSpanName';
       span.links = [
@@ -24,5 +24,5 @@ Sentry.init({
       span.status = 'something';
     }
     return span;
-  }),
+  },
 });
diff --git a/dev-packages/node-integration-tests/suites/public-api/beforeSendSpan-static/scenario-unwrapped.ts b/dev-packages/node-integration-tests/suites/public-api/beforeSendSpan-static/scenario-unwrapped.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e3cad96f2f45
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-packages/node-integration-tests/suites/public-api/beforeSendSpan-static/scenario-unwrapped.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+import type { SpanJSON } from '@sentry/core';
+import type { NodeOptions } from '@sentry/node';
+import * as Sentry from '@sentry/node';
+import { loggingTransport } from '@sentry-internal/node-integration-tests';
+
+// Simulates a callback that was not migrated to `withStaticSpan`. The cast stands in for the
+// JavaScript users who don't get a type error here.
+const unmigratedBeforeSendSpan = ((span: SpanJSON) => {
+  span.description = 'thisShouldNotBeApplied';
+  return span;
+}) as unknown as NodeOptions['beforeSendSpan'];
+
+Sentry.init({
+  dsn: 'https://public@dsn.ingest.sentry.io/1337',
+  tracesSampleRate: 1.0,
+  transport: loggingTransport,
+  release: '1.0.0',
+  traceLifecycle: 'static',
+  beforeSendSpan: unmigratedBeforeSendSpan,
+});
+
+Sentry.startSpan({ name: 'test-span', op: 'test' }, () => {
+  Sentry.startSpan({ name: 'test-child-span', op: 'test-child' }, () => {
+    // noop
+  });
+});
+
+void Sentry.flush();
diff --git a/dev-packages/node-integration-tests/suites/public-api/beforeSendSpan-static/scenario.ts b/dev-packages/node-integration-tests/suites/public-api/beforeSendSpan-static/scenario.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8dee60e5b99d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-packages/node-integration-tests/suites/public-api/beforeSendSpan-static/scenario.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+import * as Sentry from '@sentry/node';
+import { loggingTransport } from '@sentry-internal/node-integration-tests';
+
+Sentry.init({
+  dsn: 'https://public@dsn.ingest.sentry.io/1337',
+  tracesSampleRate: 1.0,
+  transport: loggingTransport,
+  release: '1.0.0',
+  traceLifecycle: 'static',
+  beforeSendSpan: Sentry.withStaticSpan(span => {
+    if (span.description === 'test-child-span') {
+      span.description = 'customChildSpanName';
+      span.data['sentry.custom_attribute'] = 'customAttributeValue';
+    }
+
+    if (span.is_segment) {
+      span.description = 'customRootSpanName';
+      span.data['sentry.custom_root_attribute'] = 'customRootAttributeValue';
+    }
+
+    return span;
+  }),
+});
+
+Sentry.startSpan({ name: 'test-span', op: 'test' }, () => {
+  Sentry.startSpan({ name: 'test-child-span', op: 'test-child' }, () => {
+    // noop
+  });
+});
+
+void Sentry.flush();
diff --git a/dev-packages/node-integration-tests/suites/public-api/beforeSendSpan-static/test.ts b/dev-packages/node-integration-tests/suites/public-api/beforeSendSpan-static/test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1dc4c63b042b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-packages/node-integration-tests/suites/public-api/beforeSendSpan-static/test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+import { afterAll, expect, test } from 'vitest';
+import { cleanupChildProcesses, createRunner } from '../../../utils/runner';
+
+afterAll(() => {
+  cleanupChildProcesses();
+});
+
+test('withStaticSpan applies changes to child spans', async () => {
+  await createRunner(__dirname, 'scenario.ts')
+    .expect({
+      transaction: event => {
+        expect(event.spans).toHaveLength(1);
+
+        const childSpan = event.spans![0]!;
+        expect(childSpan.description).toBe('customChildSpanName');
+        expect(childSpan.data['sentry.custom_attribute']).toBe('customAttributeValue');
+      },
+    })
+    .start()
+    .completed();
+});
+
+test('withStaticSpan applies changes to the root span', async () => {
+  await createRunner(__dirname, 'scenario.ts')
+    .expect({
+      transaction: event => {
+        expect(event.transaction).toBe('customRootSpanName');
+        expect(event.contexts?.trace?.data?.['sentry.custom_root_attribute']).toBe('customRootAttributeValue');
+      },
+    })
+    .start()
+    .completed();
+});
+
+test('a beforeSendSpan callback without withStaticSpan is not invoked in the static trace lifecycle', async () => {
+  await createRunner(__dirname, 'scenario-unwrapped.ts')
+    .expect({
+      transaction: event => {
+        expect(event.transaction).toBe('test-span');
+        expect(event.spans).toHaveLength(1);
+        expect(event.spans![0]!.description).toBe('test-child-span');
+      },
+    })
+    .start()
+    .completed();
+});
diff --git a/dev-packages/node-integration-tests/suites/public-api/beforeSendSpan-streamed/scenario.ts b/dev-packages/node-integration-tests/suites/public-api/beforeSendSpan-streamed/scenario.ts
index 3c7c0ed81edf..3e885e4170f9 100644
--- a/dev-packages/node-integration-tests/suites/public-api/beforeSendSpan-streamed/scenario.ts
+++ b/dev-packages/node-integration-tests/suites/public-api/beforeSendSpan-streamed/scenario.ts
@@ -4,10 +4,9 @@ import { loggingTransport } from '@sentry-internal/node-integration-tests';
 Sentry.init({
   dsn: 'https://public@dsn.ingest.sentry.io/1337',
   tracesSampleRate: 1.0,
-  traceLifecycle: 'stream',
   transport: loggingTransport,
   release: '1.0.0',
-  beforeSendSpan: Sentry.withStreamedSpan(span => {
+  beforeSendSpan: span => {
     if (span.name === 'test-child-span') {
       span.name = 'customChildSpanName';
       if (!span.attributes) {
@@ -27,7 +26,7 @@ Sentry.init({
       ];
     }
     return span;
-  }),
+  },
 });
 
 Sentry.startSpan({ name: 'test-span', op: 'test' }, () => {
diff --git a/dev-packages/rollup-utils/plugins/bundlePlugins.mjs b/dev-packages/rollup-utils/plugins/bundlePlugins.mjs
index ecf793e49585..23aab90f4edf 100644
--- a/dev-packages/rollup-utils/plugins/bundlePlugins.mjs
+++ b/dev-packages/rollup-utils/plugins/bundlePlugins.mjs
@@ -150,8 +150,8 @@ export function makeTerserPlugin() {
           '_resolveFilename',
           // Set on e.g. the shim feedbackIntegration to be able to detect it
           '_isShim',
-          // Marker set by `withStreamedSpan()` to tag streamed `beforeSendSpan` callbacks
-          '_streamed',
+          // Marker used to detect `beforeSendSpan` callbacks expecting the static span format
+          '_static',
           // This is used in metadata integration
           '_sentryModuleMetadata',
         ],
diff --git a/packages/astro/src/index.server.ts b/packages/astro/src/index.server.ts
index cb157ec9007e..f503915569af 100644
--- a/packages/astro/src/index.server.ts
+++ b/packages/astro/src/index.server.ts
@@ -173,6 +173,8 @@ export {
   unleashIntegration,
   growthbookIntegration,
   spanStreamingIntegration,
+  withStaticSpan,
+  // oxlint-disable-next-line typescript/no-deprecated
   withStreamedSpan,
   metrics,
 } from '@sentry/node';
diff --git a/packages/astro/src/index.types.ts b/packages/astro/src/index.types.ts
index 0c8a5cca7bb6..3472adfad925 100644
--- a/packages/astro/src/index.types.ts
+++ b/packages/astro/src/index.types.ts
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ export declare function init(options: Options | clientSdk.BrowserOptions | NodeO
 export declare const linkedErrorsIntegration: typeof clientSdk.linkedErrorsIntegration;
 export declare const contextLinesIntegration: typeof clientSdk.contextLinesIntegration;
 export declare const spanStreamingIntegration: typeof clientSdk.spanStreamingIntegration;
+export declare const withStaticSpan: typeof clientSdk.withStaticSpan;
+// oxlint-disable-next-line typescript/no-deprecated
 export declare const withStreamedSpan: typeof clientSdk.withStreamedSpan;
 
 export declare const getDefaultIntegrations: (options: Options) => Integration[];
diff --git a/packages/aws-serverless/src/index.ts b/packages/aws-serverless/src/index.ts
index 30f597757b40..991ef239696a 100644
--- a/packages/aws-serverless/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/aws-serverless/src/index.ts
@@ -160,6 +160,8 @@ export {
   growthbookIntegration,
   metrics,
   spanStreamingIntegration,
+  withStaticSpan,
+  // oxlint-disable-next-line typescript/no-deprecated
   withStreamedSpan,
 } from '@sentry/node';
 
diff --git a/packages/browser/src/exports.ts b/packages/browser/src/exports.ts
index d1e9d7662db3..86e038cbb850 100644
--- a/packages/browser/src/exports.ts
+++ b/packages/browser/src/exports.ts
@@ -72,6 +72,8 @@ export {
   spanToTraceHeader,
   spanToBaggageHeader,
   updateSpanName,
+  withStaticSpan,
+  // oxlint-disable-next-line typescript/no-deprecated
   withStreamedSpan,
   metrics,
 } from '@sentry/core/browser';
diff --git a/packages/browser/src/integrations/spanstreaming.ts b/packages/browser/src/integrations/spanstreaming.ts
index e8ed1a0de537..2c3c69aeaa1f 100644
--- a/packages/browser/src/integrations/spanstreaming.ts
+++ b/packages/browser/src/integrations/spanstreaming.ts
@@ -4,34 +4,19 @@ import {
   debug,
   defineIntegration,
   hasSpanStreamingEnabled,
-  isStreamedBeforeSendSpanCallback,
   SpanBuffer,
   spanIsSampled,
 } from '@sentry/core/browser';
 import { DEBUG_BUILD } from '../debug-build';
 
+export const INTEGRATION_NAME = 'SpanStreaming' as const;
+
 export const spanStreamingIntegration = defineIntegration(() => {
   return {
-    name: 'SpanStreaming' as const,
-
+    name: INTEGRATION_NAME,
     setup(client) {
-      const initialMessage = 'SpanStreaming integration requires';
-      const fallbackMsg = 'Falling back to static trace lifecycle.';
-      const clientOptions = client.getOptions();
-
       if (!hasSpanStreamingEnabled(client)) {
-        clientOptions.traceLifecycle = 'static';
-        DEBUG_BUILD && debug.warn(`${initialMessage} \`traceLifecycle\` to be set to "stream"! ${fallbackMsg}`);
-        return;
-      }
-
-      const beforeSendSpan = clientOptions.beforeSendSpan;
-      // If users misconfigure their SDK by opting into span streaming but
-      // using an incompatible beforeSendSpan callback, we fall back to the static trace lifecycle.
-      if (beforeSendSpan && !isStreamedBeforeSendSpanCallback(beforeSendSpan)) {
-        clientOptions.traceLifecycle = 'static';
-        DEBUG_BUILD &&
-          debug.warn(`${initialMessage} a beforeSendSpan callback using \`withStreamedSpan\`! ${fallbackMsg}`);
+        DEBUG_BUILD && debug.log(`[${INTEGRATION_NAME}] \`traceLifecycle\` is "static", skipping setup.`);
         return;
       }
 
diff --git a/packages/browser/src/sdk.ts b/packages/browser/src/sdk.ts
index d3bf3c960d6e..84f4940c8b41 100644
--- a/packages/browser/src/sdk.ts
+++ b/packages/browser/src/sdk.ts
@@ -19,7 +19,10 @@ import { globalHandlersIntegration } from './integrations/globalhandlers';
 import { httpContextIntegration } from './integrations/httpcontext';
 import { linkedErrorsIntegration } from './integrations/linkederrors';
 import { spotlightBrowserIntegration } from './integrations/spotlight';
-import { spanStreamingIntegration } from './integrations/spanstreaming';
+import {
+  spanStreamingIntegration,
+  INTEGRATION_NAME as SPAN_STREAMING_INTEGRATION_NAME,
+} from './integrations/spanstreaming';
 import { defaultStackParser } from './stack-parsers';
 import { makeFetchTransport } from './transports/fetch';
 import { normalizeStringifyValue } from './normalizeStringifyValue';
@@ -116,9 +119,10 @@ export function init(options: BrowserOptions = {}): Client | undefined {
     defaultIntegrations,
   });
 
-  options.traceLifecycle ??= 'stream';
-
-  if (options.traceLifecycle === 'stream' && !integrations.some(integration => integration.name === 'SpanStreaming')) {
+  if (
+    options.traceLifecycle !== 'static' &&
+    !integrations.some(integration => integration.name === SPAN_STREAMING_INTEGRATION_NAME)
+  ) {
     integrations.push(spanStreamingIntegration());
   }
 
diff --git a/packages/browser/test/integrations/spanstreaming.test.ts b/packages/browser/test/integrations/spanstreaming.test.ts
index db4209a823e8..16c93f6c8f12 100644
--- a/packages/browser/test/integrations/spanstreaming.test.ts
+++ b/packages/browser/test/integrations/spanstreaming.test.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import {
 } from '@sentry/core/browser';
 import { SENTRY_TRACE_LIFECYCLE } from '@sentry/conventions/attributes';
 import { beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest';
-import { BrowserClient, spanStreamingIntegration } from '../../src';
+import { BrowserClient, spanStreamingIntegration, withStaticSpan } from '../../src';
 import { getDefaultBrowserClientOptions } from '../helper/browser-client-options';
 
 // Mock SpanBuffer as a class that can be instantiated
@@ -40,62 +40,60 @@ describe('spanStreamingIntegration', () => {
     expect(integration.setup).toBeDefined();
   });
 
-  it.each(['static', 'somethingElse'])(
-    'logs a warning if traceLifecycle is not set to "stream" but to %s',
-    traceLifecycle => {
-      const debugSpy = vi.spyOn(debug, 'warn').mockImplementation(() => {});
-      const client = new BrowserClient({
-        ...getDefaultBrowserClientOptions(),
-        dsn: 'https://username@domain/123',
-        integrations: [spanStreamingIntegration()],
-        // @ts-expect-error - we want to test the warning for invalid traceLifecycle values
-        traceLifecycle,
-      });
-
-      SentryCore.setCurrentClient(client);
-      client.init();
-
-      expect(debugSpy).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
-        'SpanStreaming integration requires `traceLifecycle` to be set to "stream"! Falling back to static trace lifecycle.',
-      );
-      debugSpy.mockRestore();
-
-      expect(client.getOptions().traceLifecycle).toBe('static');
-    },
-  );
-
-  it('falls back to static trace lifecycle if beforeSendSpan is not compatible with span streaming', () => {
-    const debugSpy = vi.spyOn(debug, 'warn').mockImplementation(() => {});
+  it('does not set up span streaming if traceLifecycle is "static"', () => {
+    const debugSpy = vi.spyOn(debug, 'log').mockImplementation(() => {});
     const client = new BrowserClient({
       ...getDefaultBrowserClientOptions(),
       dsn: 'https://username@domain/123',
       integrations: [spanStreamingIntegration()],
-      traceLifecycle: 'stream',
-      beforeSendSpan: (span: Span) => span,
+      traceLifecycle: 'static',
+      tracesSampleRate: 1,
     });
 
     SentryCore.setCurrentClient(client);
     client.init();
 
-    expect(debugSpy).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
-      'SpanStreaming integration requires a beforeSendSpan callback using `withStreamedSpan`! Falling back to static trace lifecycle.',
-    );
+    expect(debugSpy).toHaveBeenCalledWith('[SpanStreaming] `traceLifecycle` is "static", skipping setup.');
     debugSpy.mockRestore();
 
-    expect(client.getOptions().traceLifecycle).toBe('static');
+    expect(MockSpanBuffer).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+
+    // Without the hooks registered, ending a span must not enqueue anything
+    client.emit('afterSpanEnd', new SentryCore.SentrySpan({ name: 'test', sampled: true }));
+    expect(mockSpanBufferInstance.add).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it.each([
+    ['explicitly set to "stream"', 'stream' as const],
+    ['left unset', undefined],
+  ])('sets up span streaming if traceLifecycle is %s', (_, traceLifecycle) => {
+    const client = new BrowserClient({
+      ...getDefaultBrowserClientOptions(),
+      dsn: 'https://username@domain/123',
+      integrations: [spanStreamingIntegration()],
+      traceLifecycle,
+    });
+
+    SentryCore.setCurrentClient(client);
+    client.init();
+
+    expect(MockSpanBuffer).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(client.getOptions().traceLifecycle).toBe('stream');
   });
 
-  it('does nothing if traceLifecycle set to "stream"', () => {
+  it('still sets up span streaming if beforeSendSpan is wrapped with withStaticSpan', () => {
     const client = new BrowserClient({
       ...getDefaultBrowserClientOptions(),
       dsn: 'https://username@domain/123',
       integrations: [spanStreamingIntegration()],
       traceLifecycle: 'stream',
+      beforeSendSpan: withStaticSpan(span => span),
     });
 
     SentryCore.setCurrentClient(client);
     client.init();
 
+    expect(MockSpanBuffer).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
     expect(client.getOptions().traceLifecycle).toBe('stream');
   });
 
diff --git a/packages/bun/src/index.ts b/packages/bun/src/index.ts
index 4a6c25eed27d..353d16545358 100644
--- a/packages/bun/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/bun/src/index.ts
@@ -178,6 +178,8 @@ export {
   unleashIntegration,
   metrics,
   spanStreamingIntegration,
+  withStaticSpan,
+  // oxlint-disable-next-line typescript/no-deprecated
   withStreamedSpan,
 } from '@sentry/node';
 
diff --git a/packages/cloudflare/src/index.ts b/packages/cloudflare/src/index.ts
index a95da03e25ec..46e8effb6c34 100644
--- a/packages/cloudflare/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/cloudflare/src/index.ts
@@ -110,6 +110,8 @@ export {
   growthbookIntegration,
   logger,
   metrics,
+  withStaticSpan,
+  // oxlint-disable-next-line typescript/no-deprecated
   withStreamedSpan,
   spanStreamingIntegration,
   instrumentStateGraph,
diff --git a/packages/core/src/client.ts b/packages/core/src/client.ts
index 6076b065cf62..9224ba76ccfd 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/client.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/client.ts
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import { _INTERNAL_flushMetricsBuffer } from './metrics/internal';
 import type { Scope } from './scope';
 import { updateSession } from './session';
 import { getDynamicSamplingContextFromScope } from './tracing/dynamicSamplingContext';
-import { isStreamedBeforeSendSpanCallback } from './tracing/spans/beforeSendSpan';
+import { isStaticBeforeSendSpanCallback } from './tracing/spans/beforeSendSpan';
 import { extractGenAiSpansFromEvent } from './tracing/spans/extractGenAiSpans';
 import { DEFAULT_TRANSPORT_BUFFER_SIZE } from './transports/base';
 import type { Breadcrumb, BreadcrumbHint, FetchBreadcrumbHint, XhrBreadcrumbHint } from './types/breadcrumb';
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ import type { StartSpanOptions } from './types/startSpanOptions';
 import type { Transport, TransportMakeRequestResponse } from './types/transport';
 import type { ResolvedDataCollection } from './types/datacollection';
 import { createClientReportEnvelope } from './utils/clientreport';
-import { debug } from './utils/debug-logger';
+import { consoleSandbox, debug } from './utils/debug-logger';
 import { dsnToString, makeDsn } from './utils/dsn';
 import { addItemToEnvelope, createAttachmentEnvelopeItem } from './utils/envelope';
 import { getPossibleEventMessages } from './utils/eventUtils';
@@ -233,7 +233,13 @@ export abstract class Client<O extends ClientOptions = ClientOptions> {
    * @param options Options for the client.
    */
   protected constructor(options: O) {
-    this._options = { attachStacktrace: true, traceLifecycle: 'stream', ...options };
+    // Any value other than `'static'` normalizes to the `'stream'` default, so that `traceLifecycle`
+    // is always one of the two known values for the rest of the SDK.
+    this._options = {
+      attachStacktrace: true,
+      ...options,
+      traceLifecycle: options.traceLifecycle === 'static' ? 'static' : 'stream',
+    };
     this._integrations = {};
     this._numProcessing = 0;
     this._outcomes = {};
@@ -249,6 +255,24 @@ export abstract class Client<O extends ClientOptions = ClientOptions> {
       DEBUG_BUILD && debug.warn('No DSN provided, client will not send events.');
     }
 
+    const { beforeSendSpan, traceLifecycle } = this._options;
+    // A `beforeSendSpan` callback is only invoked for the span format matching the trace lifecycle,
+    // so a mismatch means it is silently never called.
+    if (
+      DEBUG_BUILD &&
+      beforeSendSpan &&
+      isStaticBeforeSendSpanCallback(beforeSendSpan) !== (traceLifecycle === 'static')
+    ) {
+      consoleSandbox(() => {
+        // oxlint-disable-next-line no-console
+        console.warn(
+          `Ignoring \`beforeSendSpan\`: ${
+            traceLifecycle === 'static' ? 'wrap it with' : 'remove'
+          } \`Sentry.withStaticSpan\` to use it with \`traceLifecycle: "${traceLifecycle}"\`.`,
+        );
+      });
+    }
+
     if (this._dsn) {
       const url = getEnvelopeEndpointWithUrlEncodedAuth(
         this._dsn,
@@ -1654,7 +1678,7 @@ function processBeforeSend(
   hint: EventHint,
 ): PromiseLike<Event | null> | Event | null {
   const { beforeSend, beforeSendTransaction, ignoreSpans } = options;
-  const beforeSendSpan = !isStreamedBeforeSendSpanCallback(options.beforeSendSpan) && options.beforeSendSpan;
+  const beforeSendSpan = isStaticBeforeSendSpanCallback(options.beforeSendSpan) && options.beforeSendSpan;
 
   let processedEvent = event;
 
diff --git a/packages/core/src/integrations/spanStreaming.ts b/packages/core/src/integrations/spanStreaming.ts
index ffd5d0bb7694..d325906b6b1e 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/integrations/spanStreaming.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/integrations/spanStreaming.ts
@@ -1,33 +1,21 @@
 import type { IntegrationFn } from '../types/integration';
 import { DEBUG_BUILD } from '../debug-build';
 import { defineIntegration } from '../integration';
-import { isStreamedBeforeSendSpanCallback } from '../tracing/spans/beforeSendSpan';
 import { captureSpan } from '../tracing/spans/captureSpan';
 import { hasSpanStreamingEnabled } from '../tracing/spans/hasSpanStreamingEnabled';
 import { SpanBuffer } from '../tracing/spans/spanBuffer';
 import { debug } from '../utils/debug-logger';
 import { spanIsSampled } from '../utils/spanUtils';
 
+export const INTEGRATION_NAME = 'SpanStreaming' as const;
+
 export const spanStreamingIntegration = defineIntegration(() => {
   return {
-    name: 'SpanStreaming' as const,
+    name: INTEGRATION_NAME,
 
     setup(client) {
-      const initialMessage = 'SpanStreaming integration requires';
-      const fallbackMsg = 'Falling back to static trace lifecycle.';
-      const clientOptions = client.getOptions();
-
       if (!hasSpanStreamingEnabled(client)) {
-        clientOptions.traceLifecycle = 'static';
-        DEBUG_BUILD && debug.warn(`${initialMessage} \`traceLifecycle\` to be set to "stream"! ${fallbackMsg}`);
-        return;
-      }
-
-      const beforeSendSpan = clientOptions.beforeSendSpan;
-      if (beforeSendSpan && !isStreamedBeforeSendSpanCallback(beforeSendSpan)) {
-        clientOptions.traceLifecycle = 'static';
-        DEBUG_BUILD &&
-          debug.warn(`${initialMessage} a beforeSendSpan callback using \`withStreamedSpan\`! ${fallbackMsg}`);
+        DEBUG_BUILD && debug.log(`[${INTEGRATION_NAME}] \`traceLifecycle\` is "static", skipping setup.`);
         return;
       }
 
diff --git a/packages/core/src/server-runtime-client.ts b/packages/core/src/server-runtime-client.ts
index ec10c516ef9b..e0426e558ed3 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/server-runtime-client.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/server-runtime-client.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,10 @@ import { createCheckInEnvelope } from './checkin';
 import { Client } from './client';
 import { getIsolationScope } from './currentScopes';
 import { DEBUG_BUILD } from './debug-build';
-import { spanStreamingIntegration } from './integrations/spanStreaming';
+import {
+  spanStreamingIntegration,
+  INTEGRATION_NAME as SPAN_STREAMING_INTEGRATION_NAME,
+} from './integrations/spanStreaming';
 import type { Scope } from './scope';
 import { DEFAULT_TRANSPORT_BUFFER_SIZE } from './transports/base';
 import { addUserAgentToTransportHeaders } from './transports/userAgent';
@@ -40,12 +43,13 @@ export class ServerRuntimeClient<
   public constructor(options: O) {
     addUserAgentToTransportHeaders(options);
 
-    options.traceLifecycle ??= 'stream';
-
     // When span streaming is enabled (`traceLifecycle: 'stream'`), the `spanStreamingIntegration`
     // is required to flush spans. We add it here so the individual server SDKs don't have to.
     // A user-provided `spanStreamingIntegration` always takes precedence over the one we add.
-    if (options.traceLifecycle === 'stream' && !options.integrations.some(i => i.name === 'SpanStreaming')) {
+    if (
+      options.traceLifecycle !== 'static' &&
+      !options.integrations.some(i => i.name === SPAN_STREAMING_INTEGRATION_NAME)
+    ) {
       options.integrations.push(spanStreamingIntegration());
     }
 
diff --git a/packages/core/src/shared-exports.ts b/packages/core/src/shared-exports.ts
index 700e65d2a974..daec7c8a6a88 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/shared-exports.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/shared-exports.ts
@@ -86,8 +86,11 @@ export { prepareEvent } from './utils/prepareEvent';
 export type { ExclusiveEventHintOrCaptureContext } from './utils/prepareEvent';
 export { createCheckInEnvelope } from './checkin';
 export { hasSpansEnabled } from './utils/hasSpansEnabled';
-export { withStreamedSpan } from './tracing/spans/beforeSendSpan';
-export { isStreamedBeforeSendSpanCallback } from './tracing/spans/beforeSendSpan';
+export {
+  withStaticSpan,
+  // oxlint-disable-next-line typescript/no-deprecated
+  withStreamedSpan,
+} from './tracing/spans/beforeSendSpan';
 export { safeSetSpanJSONAttributes } from './tracing/spans/captureSpan';
 export { isSentryRequestUrl } from './utils/isSentryRequestUrl';
 export { handleCallbackErrors } from './utils/handleCallbackErrors';
diff --git a/packages/core/src/tracing/spans/beforeSendSpan.ts b/packages/core/src/tracing/spans/beforeSendSpan.ts
index 57797e5daead..65b4703fc4cb 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/tracing/spans/beforeSendSpan.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/tracing/spans/beforeSendSpan.ts
@@ -1,42 +1,55 @@
-import type { CoreOptions } from '../../types/options';
-import type { BeforeSendStreamedSpanCallback } from '../../types/options';
+import type { BeforeSendStaticSpanCallback, BeforeSendStreamedSpanCallback } from '../../types/options';
 import type { StreamedSpanJSON } from '../../types/span';
 import { addNonEnumerableProperty } from '../../utils/object';
 
-type StaticBeforeSendSpanCallback = CoreOptions['beforeSendSpan'];
-
 /**
- * A wrapper to use the new span format in your `beforeSendSpan` callback.
+ * A wrapper to use the static, transaction-based span format in your `beforeSendSpan` callback.
  *
- * When using `traceLifecycle: 'stream'`, wrap your callback with this function
- * to receive and return {@link StreamedSpanJSON} instead of the standard {@link SpanJSON}.
+ * When using `traceLifecycle: 'static'`, wrap your callback with this function
+ * to receive and return a static span instead of a {@link StreamedSpanJSON}.
  *
  * @example
  *
  * Sentry.init({
- *   traceLifecycle: 'stream',
- *   beforeSendSpan: withStreamedSpan((span) => {
- *     // span is of type StreamedSpanJSON
+ *   traceLifecycle: 'static',
+ *   beforeSendSpan: withStaticSpan((span) => {
+ *     // span is of type SpanJSON
  *     return span;
  *   }),
  * });
  *
+ * @param callback - A {@link BeforeSendStaticSpanCallback} that receives and returns a static span.
+ * @returns A callback that is compatible with the `beforeSendSpan` option when using `traceLifecycle: 'static'`.
+ */
+export function withStaticSpan(callback: BeforeSendStaticSpanCallback): BeforeSendStreamedSpanCallback {
+  addNonEnumerableProperty(callback, '_static', true);
+  // `beforeSendSpan` is typed as a single streamed callback so that an unwrapped callback's parameter
+  // is contextually typed as `StreamedSpanJSON`. The `_static` marker tells the SDK to hand this
+  // callback a `SpanJSON` instead, so the declared parameter type is deliberately not what it receives.
+  return callback as unknown as BeforeSendStreamedSpanCallback;
+}
+
+/**
+ * A wrapper to explicitly use the streamed span format in your `beforeSendSpan` callback.
+ *
+ * @deprecated `beforeSendSpan` callbacks receive {@link StreamedSpanJSON} by default.
+ * This function returns the callback unchanged and will be removed in SDK version 12.
+ *
  * @param callback - The callback function that receives and returns a {@link StreamedSpanJSON}.
- * @returns A callback that is compatible with the `beforeSendSpan` option when using `traceLifecycle: 'stream'`.
+ * @returns The provided callback.
  */
 export function withStreamedSpan(
   callback: (span: StreamedSpanJSON) => StreamedSpanJSON,
-): StaticBeforeSendSpanCallback & { _streamed: true } {
-  addNonEnumerableProperty(callback, '_streamed', true);
-  return callback as unknown as StaticBeforeSendSpanCallback & { _streamed: true };
+): BeforeSendStreamedSpanCallback {
+  return callback;
 }
 
 /**
- * Typesafe check to identify if a `beforeSendSpan` callback expects the streamed span JSON format.
+ * Typesafe check to identify if a `beforeSendSpan` callback expects the static span JSON format.
  *
  * @param callback - The `beforeSendSpan` callback to check.
- * @returns `true` if the callback was wrapped with {@link withStreamedSpan}.
+ * @returns `true` if the callback was wrapped with {@link withStaticSpan}.
  */
-export function isStreamedBeforeSendSpanCallback(callback: unknown): callback is BeforeSendStreamedSpanCallback {
-  return !!callback && typeof callback === 'function' && '_streamed' in callback && !!callback._streamed;
+export function isStaticBeforeSendSpanCallback(callback: unknown): callback is BeforeSendStaticSpanCallback {
+  return !!callback && typeof callback === 'function' && '_static' in callback && !!callback._static;
 }
diff --git a/packages/core/src/tracing/spans/captureSpan.ts b/packages/core/src/tracing/spans/captureSpan.ts
index b65f85b02d46..7bce050af7ff 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/tracing/spans/captureSpan.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/tracing/spans/captureSpan.ts
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ import {
   streamedSpanJsonToSerializedSpan,
 } from '../../utils/spanUtils';
 import { getCapturedScopesOnSpan } from '../utils';
-import { isStreamedBeforeSendSpanCallback } from './beforeSendSpan';
+import { isStaticBeforeSendSpanCallback } from './beforeSendSpan';
 import { scopeContextsToSpanAttributes } from './scopeContextAttributes';
 import { DEFAULT_ENVIRONMENT } from '../../constants';
 import {
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ export function captureSpan(span: Span, client: Client): SerializedStreamedSpanW
 
   const { beforeSendSpan } = client.getOptions();
   const processedSpan =
-    beforeSendSpan && isStreamedBeforeSendSpanCallback(beforeSendSpan)
+    beforeSendSpan && !isStaticBeforeSendSpanCallback(beforeSendSpan)
       ? applyBeforeSendSpanCallback(spanJSON, beforeSendSpan)
       : spanJSON;
 
diff --git a/packages/core/src/types/options.ts b/packages/core/src/types/options.ts
index e5f938082509..a3deafe5b2f8 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/types/options.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/types/options.ts
@@ -628,16 +628,19 @@ export interface ClientOptions<TO extends BaseTransportOptions = BaseTransportOp
   beforeSend?: (event: ErrorEvent, hint: EventHint) => PromiseLike<ErrorEvent | null> | ErrorEvent | null;
 
   /**
-   * This function can be defined to modify a child span before it's sent.
+   * This function can be defined to modify a span before it's sent.
    *
-   * When using `traceLifecycle: 'stream'`, wrap your callback with {@link withStreamedSpan}
-   * to receive and return {@link StreamedSpanJSON} instead.
+   * The callback receives and returns a {@link StreamedSpanJSON}, matching the default
+   * `traceLifecycle: 'stream'`. When using `traceLifecycle: 'static'`, wrap your callback with
+   * {@link withStaticSpan} to receive and return a {@link SpanJSON} instead.
+   *
+   * A callback that doesn't match the configured `traceLifecycle` is never invoked.
    *
    * @param span The span generated by the SDK.
    *
    * @returns The modified span payload that will be sent.
    */
-  beforeSendSpan?: ((span: SpanJSON) => SpanJSON) & { _streamed?: true };
+  beforeSendSpan?: BeforeSendStreamedSpanCallback;
 
   /**
    * An event-processing callback for transaction events, guaranteed to be invoked after all other event
@@ -674,13 +677,16 @@ export interface ClientOptions<TO extends BaseTransportOptions = BaseTransportOp
  *
  * @see {@link StreamedSpanJSON} for the streamed span format used with `traceLifecycle: 'stream'`
  */
-export type BeforeSendStreamedSpanCallback = ((span: StreamedSpanJSON) => StreamedSpanJSON) & {
-  /**
-   * When true, indicates this callback is designed to handle the {@link StreamedSpanJSON} format
-   * used with `traceLifecycle: 'stream'`. Set this by wrapping your callback with `withStreamedSpan`.
-   */
-  _streamed?: true;
-};
+export type BeforeSendStreamedSpanCallback = (span: StreamedSpanJSON) => StreamedSpanJSON;
+
+/**
+ * A callback for processing spans sent as part of transaction events.
+ *
+ * Pass this to {@link withStaticSpan} rather than to `beforeSendSpan` directly.
+ *
+ * @see {@link SpanJSON} for the static span format used with `traceLifecycle: 'static'`
+ */
+export type BeforeSendStaticSpanCallback = (span: SpanJSON) => SpanJSON;
 
 /** Base configuration options for every SDK. */
 export interface CoreOptions<TO extends BaseTransportOptions = BaseTransportOptions> extends Omit<
diff --git a/packages/core/test/integrations/spanStreaming.test.ts b/packages/core/test/integrations/spanStreaming.test.ts
index 8b2badf575ff..3219fb4e14d4 100644
--- a/packages/core/test/integrations/spanStreaming.test.ts
+++ b/packages/core/test/integrations/spanStreaming.test.ts
@@ -34,57 +34,54 @@ describe('spanStreamingIntegration (core)', () => {
     expect(integration.setup).toBeDefined();
   });
 
-  it.each(['static', 'somethingElse'])(
-    'logs a warning if traceLifecycle is not set to "stream" but to %s',
-    traceLifecycle => {
-      const debugSpy = vi.spyOn(debug, 'warn').mockImplementation(() => {});
-      const client = new TestClient({
-        ...getDefaultTestClientOptions(),
-        dsn: 'https://username@domain/123',
-        integrations: [spanStreamingIntegration()],
-        // @ts-expect-error - we want to test the warning for invalid traceLifecycle values
-        traceLifecycle,
-      });
-
-      SentryCore.setCurrentClient(client);
-      client.init();
-
-      expect(debugSpy).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
-        'SpanStreaming integration requires `traceLifecycle` to be set to "stream"! Falling back to static trace lifecycle.',
-      );
-      debugSpy.mockRestore();
-
-      expect(client.getOptions().traceLifecycle).toBe('static');
-    },
-  );
-
-  it('falls back to static trace lifecycle if beforeSendSpan is not compatible with span streaming', () => {
-    const debugSpy = vi.spyOn(debug, 'warn').mockImplementation(() => {});
+  it('does not set up span streaming if traceLifecycle is "static"', () => {
+    const debugSpy = vi.spyOn(debug, 'log').mockImplementation(() => {});
     const client = new TestClient({
       ...getDefaultTestClientOptions(),
       dsn: 'https://username@domain/123',
       integrations: [spanStreamingIntegration()],
-      traceLifecycle: 'stream',
-      beforeSendSpan: (span: SentryCore.SpanJSON) => span,
+      traceLifecycle: 'static',
+      tracesSampleRate: 1,
     });
 
     SentryCore.setCurrentClient(client);
     client.init();
 
-    expect(debugSpy).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
-      'SpanStreaming integration requires a beforeSendSpan callback using `withStreamedSpan`! Falling back to static trace lifecycle.',
-    );
+    expect(debugSpy).toHaveBeenCalledWith('[SpanStreaming] `traceLifecycle` is "static", skipping setup.');
     debugSpy.mockRestore();
 
-    expect(client.getOptions().traceLifecycle).toBe('static');
+    expect(MockSpanBuffer).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+
+    // Without the hooks registered, ending a span must not enqueue anything
+    client.emit('afterSpanEnd', new SentryCore.SentrySpan({ name: 'test', sampled: true }));
+    expect(mockSpanBufferInstance.add).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it.each([
+    ['explicitly set to "stream"', 'stream' as const],
+    ['left unset', undefined],
+  ])('sets up span streaming if traceLifecycle is %s', (_, traceLifecycle) => {
+    const client = new TestClient({
+      ...getDefaultTestClientOptions(),
+      dsn: 'https://username@domain/123',
+      integrations: [spanStreamingIntegration()],
+      traceLifecycle,
+    });
+
+    SentryCore.setCurrentClient(client);
+    client.init();
+
+    expect(MockSpanBuffer).toHaveBeenCalledWith(client);
+    expect(client.getOptions().traceLifecycle).toBe('stream');
   });
 
-  it('sets up buffer when traceLifecycle is "stream"', () => {
+  it('still sets up span streaming if beforeSendSpan is wrapped with withStaticSpan', () => {
     const client = new TestClient({
       ...getDefaultTestClientOptions(),
       dsn: 'https://username@domain/123',
       integrations: [spanStreamingIntegration()],
       traceLifecycle: 'stream',
+      beforeSendSpan: SentryCore.withStaticSpan(span => span),
     });
 
     SentryCore.setCurrentClient(client);
diff --git a/packages/core/test/lib/client.test.ts b/packages/core/test/lib/client.test.ts
index 5b0cb752f2c2..3ecca5aee98a 100644
--- a/packages/core/test/lib/client.test.ts
+++ b/packages/core/test/lib/client.test.ts
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import {
   setCurrentClient,
   SyncPromise,
   withMonitor,
+  withStaticSpan,
 } from '../../src';
 import * as integrationModule from '../../src/integration';
 import * as logsInternalModule from '../../src/logs/internal';
@@ -94,6 +95,80 @@ describe('Client', () => {
       expect(consoleWarnSpy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(0);
       consoleWarnSpy.mockRestore();
     });
+
+    test('warns that a streamed beforeSendSpan is ignored with traceLifecycle "static"', () => {
+      const warnSpy = vi.spyOn(console, 'warn').mockImplementation(() => undefined);
+
+      new TestClient(
+        getDefaultTestClientOptions({ dsn: PUBLIC_DSN, traceLifecycle: 'static', beforeSendSpan: span => span }),
+      );
+
+      expect(warnSpy).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+        'Ignoring `beforeSendSpan`: wrap it with `Sentry.withStaticSpan` to use it with `traceLifecycle: "static"`.',
+      );
+      warnSpy.mockRestore();
+    });
+
+    test('warns that a static beforeSendSpan is ignored with traceLifecycle "stream"', () => {
+      const warnSpy = vi.spyOn(console, 'warn').mockImplementation(() => undefined);
+
+      new TestClient(
+        getDefaultTestClientOptions({
+          dsn: PUBLIC_DSN,
+          traceLifecycle: 'stream',
+          beforeSendSpan: withStaticSpan(span => span),
+        }),
+      );
+
+      expect(warnSpy).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+        'Ignoring `beforeSendSpan`: remove `Sentry.withStaticSpan` to use it with `traceLifecycle: "stream"`.',
+      );
+      warnSpy.mockRestore();
+    });
+
+    test('reports the normalized traceLifecycle when warning about an unknown value', () => {
+      const warnSpy = vi.spyOn(console, 'warn').mockImplementation(() => undefined);
+
+      new TestClient(
+        getDefaultTestClientOptions({
+          dsn: PUBLIC_DSN,
+          // @ts-expect-error - we want to test normalization of invalid traceLifecycle values
+          traceLifecycle: 'somethingElse',
+          beforeSendSpan: withStaticSpan(span => span),
+        }),
+      );
+
+      expect(warnSpy).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+        'Ignoring `beforeSendSpan`: remove `Sentry.withStaticSpan` to use it with `traceLifecycle: "stream"`.',
+      );
+      warnSpy.mockRestore();
+    });
+
+    test('does not warn for a streamed beforeSendSpan with traceLifecycle "stream"', () => {
+      const warnSpy = vi.spyOn(console, 'warn').mockImplementation(() => undefined);
+
+      new TestClient(
+        getDefaultTestClientOptions({ dsn: PUBLIC_DSN, traceLifecycle: 'stream', beforeSendSpan: span => span }),
+      );
+
+      expect(warnSpy).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+      warnSpy.mockRestore();
+    });
+
+    test('does not warn for a static beforeSendSpan with traceLifecycle "static"', () => {
+      const warnSpy = vi.spyOn(console, 'warn').mockImplementation(() => undefined);
+
+      new TestClient(
+        getDefaultTestClientOptions({
+          dsn: PUBLIC_DSN,
+          traceLifecycle: 'static',
+          beforeSendSpan: withStaticSpan(span => span),
+        }),
+      );
+
+      expect(warnSpy).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+      warnSpy.mockRestore();
+    });
   });
 
   describe('getOptions()', () => {
@@ -124,6 +199,15 @@ describe('Client', () => {
 
       expect(client.getOptions().traceLifecycle).toBe('static');
     });
+
+    test('normalizes an unknown traceLifecycle to stream', () => {
+      const client = new TestClient(
+        // @ts-expect-error - we want to test normalization of invalid traceLifecycle values
+        getDefaultTestClientOptions({ traceLifecycle: 'somethingElse' }),
+      );
+
+      expect(client.getOptions().traceLifecycle).toBe('stream');
+    });
   });
 
   describe('getTransport()', () => {
@@ -1093,7 +1177,7 @@ describe('Client', () => {
     test('calls `beforeSendSpan` and uses original spans without any changes', () => {
       expect.assertions(3);
 
-      const beforeSendSpan = vi.fn(span => span);
+      const beforeSendSpan = withStaticSpan(vi.fn(span => span));
       const options = getDefaultTestClientOptions({ dsn: PUBLIC_DSN, beforeSendSpan });
       const client = new TestClient(options);
 
@@ -1312,14 +1396,16 @@ describe('Client', () => {
     });
 
     test('does not modify existing contexts for root span in `beforeSendSpan`', () => {
-      const beforeSendSpan = vi.fn((span: SpanJSON) => {
-        return {
-          ...span,
-          data: {
-            modified: 'true',
-          },
-        };
-      });
+      const beforeSendSpan = withStaticSpan(
+        vi.fn((span: SpanJSON) => {
+          return {
+            ...span,
+            data: {
+              modified: 'true',
+            },
+          };
+        }),
+      );
       const options = getDefaultTestClientOptions({ dsn: PUBLIC_DSN, beforeSendSpan });
       const client = new TestClient(options);
 
@@ -1427,10 +1513,12 @@ describe('Client', () => {
     test('calls `beforeSendSpan` and uses the modified spans', () => {
       expect.assertions(4);
 
-      const beforeSendSpan = vi.fn(span => {
-        span.data = { version: 'bravo' };
-        return span;
-      });
+      const beforeSendSpan = withStaticSpan(
+        vi.fn(span => {
+          span.data = { version: 'bravo' };
+          return span;
+        }),
+      );
 
       const options = getDefaultTestClientOptions({ dsn: PUBLIC_DSN, beforeSendSpan });
       const client = new TestClient(options);
@@ -1509,7 +1597,7 @@ describe('Client', () => {
     test('does not discard span and warn when returning null from `beforeSendSpan', () => {
       const consoleWarnSpy = vi.spyOn(console, 'warn').mockImplementation(() => undefined);
 
-      const beforeSendSpan = vi.fn(() => null as unknown as SpanJSON);
+      const beforeSendSpan = withStaticSpan(vi.fn(() => null as unknown as SpanJSON));
       const options = getDefaultTestClientOptions({ dsn: PUBLIC_DSN, beforeSendSpan });
       const client = new TestClient(options);
 
diff --git a/packages/core/test/lib/tracing/sentrySpan.test.ts b/packages/core/test/lib/tracing/sentrySpan.test.ts
index 7522b7061234..853ef21e8acb 100644
--- a/packages/core/test/lib/tracing/sentrySpan.test.ts
+++ b/packages/core/test/lib/tracing/sentrySpan.test.ts
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import {
   markSpanForOtelSourceInference,
   spanSourceWasExplicitlySet,
 } from '../../../src/tracing/utils';
+import { withStaticSpan } from '../../../src/tracing/spans/beforeSendSpan';
 import type { Envelope } from '../../../src/types/envelope';
 import type { SpanJSON } from '../../../src/types/span';
 import { spanToJSON, TRACE_FLAG_NONE, TRACE_FLAG_SAMPLED } from '../../../src/utils/spanUtils';
@@ -238,128 +239,130 @@ describe('SentrySpan', () => {
       expect(spanToJSON(span).timestamp).toBe(endTime / 1000);
     });
 
-    test('uses sampled config for standalone span', () => {
-      const client = new TestClient(
-        getDefaultTestClientOptions({
-          dsn: 'https://username@domain/123',
-          enableSend: true,
-        }),
-      );
-      setCurrentClient(client);
-
-      // @ts-expect-error Accessing private transport API
-      const mockSend = vi.spyOn(client._transport, 'send');
-
-      const notSampledSpan = new SentrySpan({
-        name: 'not-sampled',
-        isStandalone: true,
-        startTimestamp: 1,
-        endTimestamp: 2,
-        sampled: false,
+    describe('standalone spans', () => {
+      test('uses sampled config for standalone span', () => {
+        const client = new TestClient(
+          getDefaultTestClientOptions({
+            dsn: 'https://username@domain/123',
+            enableSend: true,
+          }),
+        );
+        setCurrentClient(client);
+
+        // @ts-expect-error Accessing private transport API
+        const mockSend = vi.spyOn(client._transport, 'send');
+
+        const notSampledSpan = new SentrySpan({
+          name: 'not-sampled',
+          isStandalone: true,
+          startTimestamp: 1,
+          endTimestamp: 2,
+          sampled: false,
+        });
+        notSampledSpan.end();
+        expect(mockSend).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+
+        const sampledSpan = new SentrySpan({
+          name: 'is-sampled',
+          isStandalone: true,
+          startTimestamp: 1,
+          endTimestamp: 2,
+          sampled: true,
+        });
+        sampledSpan.end();
+        expect(mockSend).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
       });
-      notSampledSpan.end();
-      expect(mockSend).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
 
-      const sampledSpan = new SentrySpan({
-        name: 'is-sampled',
-        isStandalone: true,
-        startTimestamp: 1,
-        endTimestamp: 2,
-        sampled: true,
+      test('sends the span if `beforeSendSpan` does not modify the span', () => {
+        const beforeSendSpan = withStaticSpan(vi.fn(span => span));
+        const client = new TestClient(
+          getDefaultTestClientOptions({
+            dsn: 'https://username@domain/123',
+            enableSend: true,
+            beforeSendSpan,
+          }),
+        );
+        setCurrentClient(client);
+
+        // @ts-expect-error Accessing private transport API
+        const mockSend = vi.spyOn(client._transport, 'send');
+        const span = new SentrySpan({
+          name: 'test',
+          isStandalone: true,
+          startTimestamp: 1,
+          endTimestamp: 2,
+          sampled: true,
+        });
+        span.end();
+        expect(mockSend).toHaveBeenCalled();
       });
-      sampledSpan.end();
-      expect(mockSend).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
-    });
 
-    test('sends the span if `beforeSendSpan` does not modify the span', () => {
-      const beforeSendSpan = vi.fn(span => span);
-      const client = new TestClient(
-        getDefaultTestClientOptions({
-          dsn: 'https://username@domain/123',
-          enableSend: true,
-          beforeSendSpan,
-        }),
-      );
-      setCurrentClient(client);
-
-      // @ts-expect-error Accessing private transport API
-      const mockSend = vi.spyOn(client._transport, 'send');
-      const span = new SentrySpan({
-        name: 'test',
-        isStandalone: true,
-        startTimestamp: 1,
-        endTimestamp: 2,
-        sampled: true,
+      test('ignores a static `beforeSendSpan` for standalone spans', () => {
+        // Standalone spans are sent as v2 streamed spans, which only honor an unwrapped (streamed)
+        // `beforeSendSpan`. A callback wrapped with `withStaticSpan` is ignored, so the span is sent unmodified.
+        const beforeSendSpan = withStaticSpan(vi.fn(() => null as unknown as SpanJSON));
+        const client = new TestClient(
+          getDefaultTestClientOptions({
+            dsn: 'https://username@domain/123',
+            enableSend: true,
+            beforeSendSpan,
+          }),
+        );
+        setCurrentClient(client);
+
+        const recordDroppedEventSpy = vi.spyOn(client, 'recordDroppedEvent');
+        // @ts-expect-error Accessing private transport API
+        const mockSend = vi.spyOn(client._transport, 'send');
+        const span = new SentrySpan({
+          name: 'test',
+          isStandalone: true,
+          startTimestamp: 1,
+          endTimestamp: 2,
+          sampled: true,
+        });
+        span.end();
+
+        expect(beforeSendSpan).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+        expect(mockSend).toHaveBeenCalled();
+        expect(recordDroppedEventSpy).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
       });
-      span.end();
-      expect(mockSend).toHaveBeenCalled();
-    });
 
-    test('ignores a non-streamed `beforeSendSpan` for standalone spans', () => {
-      // Standalone spans are sent as v2 streamed spans, which only honor a `beforeSendSpan` wrapped
-      // with `withStreamedSpan`. A plain callback is ignored, so the span is sent unmodified.
-      const beforeSendSpan = vi.fn(() => null as unknown as SpanJSON);
-      const client = new TestClient(
-        getDefaultTestClientOptions({
-          dsn: 'https://username@domain/123',
-          enableSend: true,
-          beforeSendSpan,
-        }),
-      );
-      setCurrentClient(client);
-
-      const recordDroppedEventSpy = vi.spyOn(client, 'recordDroppedEvent');
-      // @ts-expect-error Accessing private transport API
-      const mockSend = vi.spyOn(client._transport, 'send');
-      const span = new SentrySpan({
-        name: 'test',
-        isStandalone: true,
-        startTimestamp: 1,
-        endTimestamp: 2,
-        sampled: true,
-      });
-      span.end();
-
-      expect(beforeSendSpan).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
-      expect(mockSend).toHaveBeenCalled();
-      expect(recordDroppedEventSpy).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
-    });
-
-    test('sends a standalone span on its own and excludes it from the parent transaction', async () => {
-      const client = new TestClient(
-        getDefaultTestClientOptions({
-          dsn: 'https://username@domain/123',
-          enableSend: true,
-          tracesSampleRate: 1,
-        }),
-      );
-      setCurrentClient(client);
-
-      const envelopes: Envelope[] = [];
-      client.on('beforeEnvelope', envelope => {
-        envelopes.push(envelope);
+      test('sends a standalone span on its own and excludes it from the parent transaction', async () => {
+        const client = new TestClient(
+          getDefaultTestClientOptions({
+            dsn: 'https://username@domain/123',
+            enableSend: true,
+            tracesSampleRate: 1,
+          }),
+        );
+        setCurrentClient(client);
+
+        const envelopes: Envelope[] = [];
+        client.on('beforeEnvelope', envelope => {
+          envelopes.push(envelope);
+        });
+
+        startSpan({ name: 'root' }, () => {
+          const standaloneChild = startInactiveSpan({ name: 'inp', experimental: { standalone: true } });
+          standaloneChild.end();
+        });
+
+        await client.flush();
+
+        const items = envelopes.flatMap(
+          envelope => envelope[1] as Array<[{ type?: string; content_type?: string }, any]>,
+        );
+
+        // The standalone child is sent on its own as a v2 streamed span...
+        const streamedItem = items.find(item => item[0]?.content_type === 'application/vnd.sentry.items.span.v2+json');
+        expect(streamedItem?.[1]?.items?.[0]?.name).toBe('inp');
+
+        // ...and is NOT folded into the root transaction (no double-send).
+        const transactionItem = items.find(item => item[0]?.type === 'transaction');
+        expect(transactionItem?.[1]?.spans?.map((span: { description?: string }) => span.description)).not.toContain(
+          'inp',
+        );
       });
-
-      startSpan({ name: 'root' }, () => {
-        const standaloneChild = startInactiveSpan({ name: 'inp', experimental: { standalone: true } });
-        standaloneChild.end();
-      });
-
-      await client.flush();
-
-      const items = envelopes.flatMap(
-        envelope => envelope[1] as Array<[{ type?: string; content_type?: string }, any]>,
-      );
-
-      // The standalone child is sent on its own as a v2 streamed span...
-      const streamedItem = items.find(item => item[0]?.content_type === 'application/vnd.sentry.items.span.v2+json');
-      expect(streamedItem?.[1]?.items?.[0]?.name).toBe('inp');
-
-      // ...and is NOT folded into the root transaction (no double-send).
-      const transactionItem = items.find(item => item[0]?.type === 'transaction');
-      expect(transactionItem?.[1]?.spans?.map((span: { description?: string }) => span.description)).not.toContain(
-        'inp',
-      );
     });
 
     test('build TransactionEvent for basic root span', () => {
diff --git a/packages/core/test/lib/tracing/spans/beforeSendSpan.test.ts b/packages/core/test/lib/tracing/spans/beforeSendSpan.test.ts
index 79fd838a1b27..acab09bfea06 100644
--- a/packages/core/test/lib/tracing/spans/beforeSendSpan.test.ts
+++ b/packages/core/test/lib/tracing/spans/beforeSendSpan.test.ts
@@ -1,26 +1,40 @@
 import { describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest';
-import { withStreamedSpan } from '../../../../src';
-import { isStreamedBeforeSendSpanCallback } from '../../../../src/tracing/spans/beforeSendSpan';
+import { withStaticSpan, withStreamedSpan } from '../../../../src';
+import { isStaticBeforeSendSpanCallback } from '../../../../src/tracing/spans/beforeSendSpan';
 
-describe('beforeSendSpan for span streaming', () => {
-  describe('withStreamedSpan', () => {
-    it('should be able to modify the span', () => {
+describe('beforeSendSpan callback formats', () => {
+  describe('withStaticSpan', () => {
+    it('marks the callback as static without making the marker enumerable', () => {
       const beforeSendSpan = vi.fn();
-      const wrapped = withStreamedSpan(beforeSendSpan);
-      expect(wrapped._streamed).toBe(true);
+      const wrapped = withStaticSpan(beforeSendSpan);
+
+      expect(wrapped._static).toBe(true);
+      expect(Object.keys(wrapped)).not.toContain('_static');
     });
   });
 
-  describe('isStreamedBeforeSendSpanCallback', () => {
-    it('returns true if the callback is wrapped with withStreamedSpan', () => {
+  describe('withStreamedSpan', () => {
+    it('returns the callback unchanged', () => {
       const beforeSendSpan = vi.fn();
-      const wrapped = withStreamedSpan(beforeSendSpan);
-      expect(isStreamedBeforeSendSpanCallback(wrapped)).toBe(true);
+
+      expect(withStreamedSpan(beforeSendSpan)).toBe(beforeSendSpan);
+      expect(Object.keys(beforeSendSpan)).not.toContain('_streamed');
     });
+  });
 
-    it('returns false if the callback is not wrapped with withStreamedSpan', () => {
-      const beforeSendSpan = vi.fn();
-      expect(isStreamedBeforeSendSpanCallback(beforeSendSpan)).toBe(false);
+  describe('isStaticBeforeSendSpanCallback', () => {
+    it('returns true if the callback is wrapped with withStaticSpan', () => {
+      const wrapped = withStaticSpan(vi.fn());
+
+      expect(isStaticBeforeSendSpanCallback(wrapped)).toBe(true);
+    });
+
+    it('returns false for an unwrapped callback', () => {
+      expect(isStaticBeforeSendSpanCallback(vi.fn())).toBe(false);
+    });
+
+    it('returns false if the callback is wrapped with withStreamedSpan', () => {
+      expect(isStaticBeforeSendSpanCallback(withStreamedSpan(vi.fn()))).toBe(false);
     });
   });
 });
diff --git a/packages/core/test/lib/tracing/spans/captureSpan.test.ts b/packages/core/test/lib/tracing/spans/captureSpan.test.ts
index 0560ebd2f702..88856b93feb4 100644
--- a/packages/core/test/lib/tracing/spans/captureSpan.test.ts
+++ b/packages/core/test/lib/tracing/spans/captureSpan.test.ts
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ import {
   SEMANTIC_ATTRIBUTE_USER_USERNAME,
   startInactiveSpan,
   startSpan,
+  withStaticSpan,
   withScope,
-  withStreamedSpan,
 } from '../../../../src';
 import { safeSetSpanJSONAttributes } from '../../../../src/tracing/spans/captureSpan';
 import { scopeContextsToSpanAttributes } from '../../../../src/tracing/spans/scopeContextAttributes';
@@ -475,8 +475,8 @@ describe('captureSpan', () => {
   });
 
   describe('beforeSendSpan', () => {
-    it('applies beforeSendSpan if it is a span streaming compatible callback', () => {
-      const beforeSendSpan = withStreamedSpan(vi.fn(span => span));
+    it('applies a default beforeSendSpan callback', () => {
+      const beforeSendSpan = vi.fn(span => span);
 
       const client = new TestClient(
         getDefaultTestClientOptions({
@@ -496,8 +496,8 @@ describe('captureSpan', () => {
       expect(beforeSendSpan).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.objectContaining({ span_id: span.spanContext().spanId }));
     });
 
-    it("doesn't apply beforeSendSpan if it is not a span streaming compatible callback", () => {
-      const beforeSendSpan = vi.fn(span => span);
+    it("doesn't apply beforeSendSpan if it is marked as static", () => {
+      const beforeSendSpan = withStaticSpan(vi.fn(span => span));
 
       const client = new TestClient(
         getDefaultTestClientOptions({
@@ -519,8 +519,7 @@ describe('captureSpan', () => {
 
     it('logs a warning if the beforeSendSpan callback returns null', () => {
       const consoleWarnSpy = vi.spyOn(console, 'warn').mockImplementation(() => undefined);
-      // @ts-expect-error - the types dissallow returning null but this is javascript, so we need to test it
-      const beforeSendSpan = withStreamedSpan(() => null);
+      const beforeSendSpan = vi.fn(() => null as unknown as StreamedSpanJSON);
 
       const client = new TestClient(
         getDefaultTestClientOptions({
diff --git a/packages/deno/src/index.ts b/packages/deno/src/index.ts
index 52a04b18aeb7..4ff878591009 100644
--- a/packages/deno/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/deno/src/index.ts
@@ -97,6 +97,8 @@ export {
   wrapMcpServerWithSentry,
   featureFlagsIntegration,
   metrics,
+  withStaticSpan,
+  // oxlint-disable-next-line typescript/no-deprecated
   withStreamedSpan,
   logger,
   consoleLoggingIntegration,
diff --git a/packages/effect/src/index.types.ts b/packages/effect/src/index.types.ts
index e1544da73485..bc77a68bd35d 100644
--- a/packages/effect/src/index.types.ts
+++ b/packages/effect/src/index.types.ts
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ export declare function init(options: Options | clientSdk.BrowserOptions | serve
 export declare const linkedErrorsIntegration: typeof clientSdk.linkedErrorsIntegration;
 export declare const contextLinesIntegration: typeof clientSdk.contextLinesIntegration;
 export declare const spanStreamingIntegration: typeof clientSdk.spanStreamingIntegration;
+export declare const withStaticSpan: typeof clientSdk.withStaticSpan;
+// oxlint-disable-next-line typescript/no-deprecated
 export declare const withStreamedSpan: typeof clientSdk.withStreamedSpan;
 export declare const getDefaultIntegrations: (options: Options) => Integration[];
 export declare const defaultStackParser: StackParser;
diff --git a/packages/elysia/src/index.ts b/packages/elysia/src/index.ts
index 715c2484296e..74257f226a90 100644
--- a/packages/elysia/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/elysia/src/index.ts
@@ -155,6 +155,8 @@ export {
   unleashIntegration,
   metrics,
   spanStreamingIntegration,
+  withStaticSpan,
+  // oxlint-disable-next-line typescript/no-deprecated
   withStreamedSpan,
   bunServerIntegration,
   makeFetchTransport,
diff --git a/packages/google-cloud-serverless/src/index.ts b/packages/google-cloud-serverless/src/index.ts
index d07490563212..191c79a6756b 100644
--- a/packages/google-cloud-serverless/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/google-cloud-serverless/src/index.ts
@@ -160,6 +160,8 @@ export {
   unleashIntegration,
   metrics,
   spanStreamingIntegration,
+  withStaticSpan,
+  // oxlint-disable-next-line typescript/no-deprecated
   withStreamedSpan,
 } from '@sentry/node';
 
diff --git a/packages/nextjs/src/index.types.ts b/packages/nextjs/src/index.types.ts
index e0d918708bb1..42ef9d6a9502 100644
--- a/packages/nextjs/src/index.types.ts
+++ b/packages/nextjs/src/index.types.ts
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ export declare const consoleIntegration: typeof serverSdk.consoleIntegration;
 // Node-only at runtime; the edge build exports an inert shim so named imports resolve in edge-compiled modules.
 export declare const pinoIntegration: typeof serverSdk.pinoIntegration;
 export declare const spanStreamingIntegration: typeof clientSdk.spanStreamingIntegration;
+export declare const withStaticSpan: typeof clientSdk.withStaticSpan;
+// oxlint-disable-next-line typescript/no-deprecated
 export declare const withStreamedSpan: typeof clientSdk.withStreamedSpan;
 
 // Different implementation in server and worker
diff --git a/packages/node/src/index.ts b/packages/node/src/index.ts
index bf8dd5d7533e..bdc31ef809ab 100644
--- a/packages/node/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/node/src/index.ts
@@ -174,7 +174,12 @@ export type {
   CaptureContext,
 } from '@sentry/core';
 
-export { metrics, withStreamedSpan } from '@sentry/core';
+export {
+  metrics,
+  withStaticSpan,
+  // oxlint-disable-next-line typescript/no-deprecated
+  withStreamedSpan,
+} from '@sentry/core';
 export * as logger from './logs/exports';
 
 export { childProcessIntegration } from './integrations/childProcess';
diff --git a/packages/nuxt/src/index.types.ts b/packages/nuxt/src/index.types.ts
index e058e0bfd099..4865aac868d3 100644
--- a/packages/nuxt/src/index.types.ts
+++ b/packages/nuxt/src/index.types.ts
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ export declare function init(options: Options | SentryNuxtClientOptions | Sentry
 export declare const linkedErrorsIntegration: typeof clientSdk.linkedErrorsIntegration;
 export declare const contextLinesIntegration: typeof clientSdk.contextLinesIntegration;
 export declare const spanStreamingIntegration: typeof clientSdk.spanStreamingIntegration;
+export declare const withStaticSpan: typeof clientSdk.withStaticSpan;
+// oxlint-disable-next-line typescript/no-deprecated
 export declare const withStreamedSpan: typeof clientSdk.withStreamedSpan;
 export declare const getDefaultIntegrations: (options: Options) => Integration[];
 export declare const defaultStackParser: StackParser;
diff --git a/packages/react-router/src/index.types.ts b/packages/react-router/src/index.types.ts
index e7fb4382d0f2..af8c4da6d94a 100644
--- a/packages/react-router/src/index.types.ts
+++ b/packages/react-router/src/index.types.ts
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ export declare function init(options: Options | clientSdk.BrowserOptions | serve
 export declare const contextLinesIntegration: typeof clientSdk.contextLinesIntegration;
 export declare const linkedErrorsIntegration: typeof clientSdk.linkedErrorsIntegration;
 export declare const spanStreamingIntegration: typeof clientSdk.spanStreamingIntegration;
+export declare const withStaticSpan: typeof clientSdk.withStaticSpan;
+// oxlint-disable-next-line typescript/no-deprecated
 export declare const withStreamedSpan: typeof clientSdk.withStreamedSpan;
 export declare const defaultStackParser: StackParser;
 export declare const getDefaultIntegrations: (options: Options) => Integration[];
diff --git a/packages/remix/src/cloudflare/index.ts b/packages/remix/src/cloudflare/index.ts
index ef2f89cee2a5..99c642506693 100644
--- a/packages/remix/src/cloudflare/index.ts
+++ b/packages/remix/src/cloudflare/index.ts
@@ -117,6 +117,8 @@ export {
   spanToTraceHeader,
   spanToBaggageHeader,
   updateSpanName,
+  withStaticSpan,
+  // oxlint-disable-next-line typescript/no-deprecated
   withStreamedSpan,
   featureFlagsIntegration,
 } from '@sentry/core';
diff --git a/packages/remix/src/index.types.ts b/packages/remix/src/index.types.ts
index 1a54068ae019..498b640d7e6e 100644
--- a/packages/remix/src/index.types.ts
+++ b/packages/remix/src/index.types.ts
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ export declare const browserTracingIntegration: typeof clientSdk.browserTracingI
 export declare const linkedErrorsIntegration: typeof clientSdk.linkedErrorsIntegration;
 export declare const contextLinesIntegration: typeof clientSdk.contextLinesIntegration;
 export declare const spanStreamingIntegration: typeof clientSdk.spanStreamingIntegration;
+export declare const withStaticSpan: typeof clientSdk.withStaticSpan;
+// oxlint-disable-next-line typescript/no-deprecated
 export declare const withStreamedSpan: typeof clientSdk.withStreamedSpan;
 
 export declare const getDefaultIntegrations: (options: Options) => Integration[];
diff --git a/packages/remix/src/server/index.ts b/packages/remix/src/server/index.ts
index 4fd2331b34fa..88350f5e593d 100644
--- a/packages/remix/src/server/index.ts
+++ b/packages/remix/src/server/index.ts
@@ -133,6 +133,8 @@ export {
   createConsolaReporter,
   createSentryWinstonTransport,
   spanStreamingIntegration,
+  withStaticSpan,
+  // oxlint-disable-next-line typescript/no-deprecated
   withStreamedSpan,
 } from '@sentry/node';
 
diff --git a/packages/solidstart/src/index.types.ts b/packages/solidstart/src/index.types.ts
index d984e1384a93..71e45f1d2a2d 100644
--- a/packages/solidstart/src/index.types.ts
+++ b/packages/solidstart/src/index.types.ts
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ export declare function init(options: Options | clientSdk.BrowserOptions | serve
 export declare const linkedErrorsIntegration: typeof clientSdk.linkedErrorsIntegration;
 export declare const contextLinesIntegration: typeof clientSdk.contextLinesIntegration;
 export declare const spanStreamingIntegration: typeof clientSdk.spanStreamingIntegration;
+export declare const withStaticSpan: typeof clientSdk.withStaticSpan;
+// oxlint-disable-next-line typescript/no-deprecated
 export declare const withStreamedSpan: typeof clientSdk.withStreamedSpan;
 
 export declare const getDefaultIntegrations: (options: Options) => Integration[];
diff --git a/packages/solidstart/src/server/index.ts b/packages/solidstart/src/server/index.ts
index fd5fbb2e0e39..dc8640b965e8 100644
--- a/packages/solidstart/src/server/index.ts
+++ b/packages/solidstart/src/server/index.ts
@@ -132,6 +132,8 @@ export {
   createConsolaReporter,
   createSentryWinstonTransport,
   spanStreamingIntegration,
+  withStaticSpan,
+  // oxlint-disable-next-line typescript/no-deprecated
   withStreamedSpan,
 } from '@sentry/node';
 
diff --git a/packages/sveltekit/src/index.types.ts b/packages/sveltekit/src/index.types.ts
index 1f4bbae0b4a9..5404d001b205 100644
--- a/packages/sveltekit/src/index.types.ts
+++ b/packages/sveltekit/src/index.types.ts
@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ export declare function wrapLoadWithSentry<T extends (...args: any) => any>(orig
 export declare const linkedErrorsIntegration: typeof clientSdk.linkedErrorsIntegration;
 export declare const contextLinesIntegration: typeof clientSdk.contextLinesIntegration;
 export declare const spanStreamingIntegration: typeof clientSdk.spanStreamingIntegration;
+export declare const withStaticSpan: typeof clientSdk.withStaticSpan;
+// oxlint-disable-next-line typescript/no-deprecated
 export declare const withStreamedSpan: typeof clientSdk.withStreamedSpan;
 
 // Different implementation in server and worker
diff --git a/packages/sveltekit/src/server/index.ts b/packages/sveltekit/src/server/index.ts
index 5ebd934e9e88..07a8147cefe8 100644
--- a/packages/sveltekit/src/server/index.ts
+++ b/packages/sveltekit/src/server/index.ts
@@ -137,6 +137,8 @@ export {
   vercelAIIntegration,
   metrics,
   spanStreamingIntegration,
+  withStaticSpan,
+  // oxlint-disable-next-line typescript/no-deprecated
   withStreamedSpan,
 } from '@sentry/node';
 
diff --git a/packages/sveltekit/src/worker/index.ts b/packages/sveltekit/src/worker/index.ts
index de2146c9e259..65fe98529a5c 100644
--- a/packages/sveltekit/src/worker/index.ts
+++ b/packages/sveltekit/src/worker/index.ts
@@ -83,6 +83,8 @@ export {
   withIsolationScope,
   withMonitor,
   withScope,
+  withStaticSpan,
+  // oxlint-disable-next-line typescript/no-deprecated
   withStreamedSpan,
   supabaseIntegration,
   instrumentSupabaseClient,
diff --git a/packages/tanstackstart-react/src/index.types.ts b/packages/tanstackstart-react/src/index.types.ts
index d6465a0e14d2..d1464a88175e 100644
--- a/packages/tanstackstart-react/src/index.types.ts
+++ b/packages/tanstackstart-react/src/index.types.ts
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ export declare function init(options: Options | clientSdk.BrowserOptions | serve
 export declare const linkedErrorsIntegration: typeof clientSdk.linkedErrorsIntegration;
 export declare const contextLinesIntegration: typeof clientSdk.contextLinesIntegration;
 export declare const spanStreamingIntegration: typeof clientSdk.spanStreamingIntegration;
+export declare const withStaticSpan: typeof clientSdk.withStaticSpan;
+// oxlint-disable-next-line typescript/no-deprecated
 export declare const withStreamedSpan: typeof clientSdk.withStreamedSpan;
 
 export declare const getDefaultIntegrations: (options: Options) => Integration[];
diff --git a/packages/vercel-edge/src/index.ts b/packages/vercel-edge/src/index.ts
index d8e277f9fea0..29831c013835 100644
--- a/packages/vercel-edge/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/vercel-edge/src/index.ts
@@ -105,6 +105,8 @@ export {
   featureFlagsIntegration,
   logger,
   metrics,
+  withStaticSpan,
+  // oxlint-disable-next-line typescript/no-deprecated
   withStreamedSpan,
   spanStreamingIntegration,
 } from '@sentry/core';