diff --git a/packages/sveltekit/src/vite/sentryVitePlugins.ts b/packages/sveltekit/src/vite/sentryVitePlugins.ts
index 0f2461a419de..1f983d7a9653 100644
--- a/packages/sveltekit/src/vite/sentryVitePlugins.ts
+++ b/packages/sveltekit/src/vite/sentryVitePlugins.ts
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ export async function sentrySvelteKit(options: SentrySvelteKitPluginOptions = {}
     );
   }
 
-  if (mergedOptions.autoUploadSourceMaps) {
+  if (mergedOptions.autoUploadSourceMaps && process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'development') {
     const pluginOptions = {
       ...mergedOptions.sourceMapsUploadOptions,
       debug: mergedOptions.debug, // override the plugin's debug flag with the one from the top-level options
diff --git a/packages/sveltekit/test/vite/sentrySvelteKitPlugins.test.ts b/packages/sveltekit/test/vite/sentrySvelteKitPlugins.test.ts
index f606b5ee6e9a..963844bdef70 100644
--- a/packages/sveltekit/test/vite/sentrySvelteKitPlugins.test.ts
+++ b/packages/sveltekit/test/vite/sentrySvelteKitPlugins.test.ts
@@ -38,6 +38,19 @@ describe('sentryVite()', () => {
     expect(plugins).toHaveLength(1);
   });
 
+  it("doesn't return the custom sentry source maps plugin if `NODE_ENV` is development", async () => {
+    const previousEnv = process.env.NODE_ENV;
+
+    process.env.NODE_ENV = 'development';
+    const plugins = await sentrySvelteKit({ autoUploadSourceMaps: true, autoInstrument: true });
+    const instrumentPlugin = plugins[0];
+
+    expect(plugins).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(instrumentPlugin.name).toEqual('sentry-auto-instrumentation');
+
+    process.env.NODE_ENV = previousEnv;
+  });
+
   it("doesn't return the auto instrument plugin if autoInstrument is `false`", async () => {
     const plugins = await sentrySvelteKit({ autoInstrument: false });
     expect(plugins).toHaveLength(1);