diff --git a/crates/rpc/rpc-eth-api/Cargo.toml b/crates/rpc/rpc-eth-api/Cargo.toml
index 5cd79c27c6fc..af747fb322ef 100644
--- a/crates/rpc/rpc-eth-api/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/rpc/rpc-eth-api/Cargo.toml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ workspace = true
 [dependencies]
 # reth
 revm.workspace = true
-revm-inspectors = { workspace = true, features = ["js-tracer"] }
+revm-inspectors.workspace = true
 revm-primitives = { workspace = true, features = ["dev"] }
 reth-errors.workspace = true
 reth-evm.workspace = true
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ reth-tasks = { workspace = true, features = ["rayon"] }
 reth-transaction-pool.workspace = true
 reth-chainspec.workspace = true
 reth-execution-types.workspace = true
-reth-rpc-eth-types = { workspace = true, features = ["js-tracer"] }
+reth-rpc-eth-types.workspace = true
 reth-rpc-server-types.workspace = true
 reth-network-api.workspace = true
 
@@ -50,6 +50,8 @@ dyn-clone.workspace = true
 tracing.workspace = true
 
 [features]
+default = ["js-tracer"]
+js-tracer = ["revm-inspectors/js-tracer", "reth-rpc-eth-types/js-tracer"]
 client = ["jsonrpsee/client", "jsonrpsee/async-client"]
 optimism = [
     "reth-primitives/optimism",
diff --git a/crates/rpc/rpc/Cargo.toml b/crates/rpc/rpc/Cargo.toml
index 5661c1f724f2..572f59b81867 100644
--- a/crates/rpc/rpc/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/rpc/rpc/Cargo.toml
@@ -27,10 +27,10 @@ reth-revm.workspace = true
 reth-tasks = { workspace = true, features = ["rayon"] }
 reth-consensus-common.workspace = true
 reth-rpc-types-compat.workspace = true
-revm-inspectors = { workspace = true, features = ["js-tracer"] }
+revm-inspectors.workspace = true
 reth-network-peers = { workspace = true, features = ["secp256k1"] }
 reth-evm.workspace = true
-reth-rpc-eth-types = { workspace = true, features = ["js-tracer"] }
+reth-rpc-eth-types.workspace = true
 reth-rpc-server-types.workspace = true
 reth-node-api.workspace = true
 reth-network-types.workspace = true
@@ -84,6 +84,8 @@ jsonrpsee-types.workspace = true
 jsonrpsee = { workspace = true, features = ["client"] }
 
 [features]
+default = ["js-tracer"]
+js-tracer = ["revm-inspectors/js-tracer", "reth-rpc-eth-types/js-tracer"]
 optimism = [
     "reth-primitives/optimism",
     "reth-rpc-types-compat/optimism",