diff --git a/packages/browser/src/client/runner.ts b/packages/browser/src/client/runner.ts
index f316715a541d..2f762ff61159 100644
--- a/packages/browser/src/client/runner.ts
+++ b/packages/browser/src/client/runner.ts
@@ -92,11 +92,12 @@ export async function initiateRunner() {
   if (cachedRunner)
     return cachedRunner
   const config = getConfig()
-  const [{ VitestTestRunner }, { takeCoverageInsideWorker, loadDiffConfig, loadSnapshotSerializers }] = await Promise.all([
+  const [{ VitestTestRunner, NodeBenchmarkRunner }, { takeCoverageInsideWorker, loadDiffConfig, loadSnapshotSerializers }] = await Promise.all([
     importId('vitest/runners') as Promise<typeof import('vitest/runners')>,
     importId('vitest/browser') as Promise<typeof import('vitest/browser')>,
   ])
-  const BrowserRunner = createBrowserRunner(VitestTestRunner, {
+  const runnerClass = config.mode === 'test' ? VitestTestRunner : NodeBenchmarkRunner
+  const BrowserRunner = createBrowserRunner(runnerClass, {
     takeCoverage: () => takeCoverageInsideWorker(config.coverage, { executeId: importId }),
   })
   if (!config.snapshotOptions.snapshotEnvironment)
diff --git a/test/benchmark/fixtures/basic/only.bench.ts b/test/benchmark/fixtures/basic/only.bench.ts
index 0ecd4faa688e..b0647b319292 100644
--- a/test/benchmark/fixtures/basic/only.bench.ts
+++ b/test/benchmark/fixtures/basic/only.bench.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-import assert from 'node:assert'
-import { bench, describe, expect } from 'vitest'
+import { bench, describe, expect, assert } from 'vitest'
 
 const run = [false, false, false, false, false]
 
diff --git a/test/browser/fixtures/benchmark/basic.bench.ts b/test/browser/fixtures/benchmark/basic.bench.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d61e094276bd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/browser/fixtures/benchmark/basic.bench.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+import { bench, describe } from 'vitest'
+
+describe('suite-a', () => {
+  bench('good', async () => {
+    await sleep(10)
+  }, options)
+
+  bench('bad', async () => {
+    await sleep(300)
+  }, options)
+})
+
+describe('suite-b', () => {
+  bench('good', async () => {
+    await sleep(25)
+  }, options)
+
+  describe('suite-b-nested', () => {
+    bench('good', async () => {
+      await sleep(50)
+    }, options)
+  })
+})
+
+const sleep = (ms: number) => new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms));
+
+const options = {
+  time: 0,
+  iterations: 2,
+  warmupIterations: 0,
+  warmupTime: 0,
+}
diff --git a/test/browser/fixtures/benchmark/vitest.config.ts b/test/browser/fixtures/benchmark/vitest.config.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2214155ca2c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/browser/fixtures/benchmark/vitest.config.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url'
+import { defineConfig } from 'vitest/config'
+
+const provider = process.env.PROVIDER || 'playwright'
+const name =
+  process.env.BROWSER || (provider === 'playwright' ? 'chromium' : 'chrome')
+
+export default defineConfig({
+  test: {
+    browser: {
+      enabled: true,
+      provider,
+      name,
+    },
+  },
+  cacheDir: fileURLToPath(new URL("./node_modules/.vite", import.meta.url)),
+})
diff --git a/test/browser/specs/benchmark.test.ts b/test/browser/specs/benchmark.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9f3659e35030
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/browser/specs/benchmark.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+import { expect, test } from 'vitest'
+import { runVitest } from '../../test-utils'
+
+test('benchmark', async () => {
+  const result = await runVitest({ root: 'fixtures/benchmark' }, [], 'benchmark')
+  expect(result.stdout).toContain('✓ basic.bench.ts > suite-a')
+  expect(result.exitCode).toBe(0)
+})