diff --git a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/devsupport/DefaultDevSupportManagerFactory.java b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/devsupport/DefaultDevSupportManagerFactory.java
index 97862539f42..d25dc60eec2 100644
--- a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/devsupport/DefaultDevSupportManagerFactory.java
+++ b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/devsupport/DefaultDevSupportManagerFactory.java
@@ -61,6 +61,10 @@ public class DefaultDevSupportManagerFactory implements DevSupportManagerFactory
     if (!enableOnCreate) {
       return new DisabledDevSupportManager();
     }
+    // Developer support is enabled, we now must choose whether to return a DevSupportManager,
+    // or a more lean profiling-only PerftestDevSupportManager. We make the choice by first
+    // trying to return the full support DevSupportManager and if it fails, then just
+    // return PerftestDevSupportManager.
     try {
       // ProGuard is surprisingly smart in this case and will keep a class if it detects a call to
       // Class.forName() with a static string. So instead we generate a quasi-dynamic string to
@@ -94,10 +98,7 @@ public class DefaultDevSupportManagerFactory implements DevSupportManagerFactory
               customPackagerCommandHandlers,
               surfaceDelegateFactory);
     } catch (Exception e) {
-      throw new RuntimeException(
-          "Requested enabled DevSupportManager, but BridgeDevSupportManager class was not found"
-              + " or could not be created",
-          e);
+      return new PerftestDevSupportManager(applicationContext);
     }
   }
 }
diff --git a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/devsupport/PerftestDevSupportManager.java b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/devsupport/PerftestDevSupportManager.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..2be621fc38f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/devsupport/PerftestDevSupportManager.java
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+ */
+
+package com.facebook.react.devsupport;
+
+import android.content.Context;
+
+/**
+ * Interface for accessing and interacting with development features related to performance testing.
+ * Communication is enabled via the Inspector, but everything else is disabled.
+ */
+public final class PerftestDevSupportManager extends DisabledDevSupportManager {
+  private final DevServerHelper mDevServerHelper;
+  private final DevInternalSettings mDevSettings;
+  private final InspectorPackagerConnection.BundleStatus mBundleStatus;
+
+  public PerftestDevSupportManager(Context applicationContext) {
+    mDevSettings =
+        new DevInternalSettings(
+            applicationContext,
+            new DevInternalSettings.Listener() {
+              @Override
+              public void onInternalSettingsChanged() {}
+            });
+    mBundleStatus = new InspectorPackagerConnection.BundleStatus();
+    mDevServerHelper =
+        new DevServerHelper(
+            mDevSettings,
+            applicationContext.getPackageName(),
+            new InspectorPackagerConnection.BundleStatusProvider() {
+              @Override
+              public InspectorPackagerConnection.BundleStatus getBundleStatus() {
+                return mBundleStatus;
+              }
+            });
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public DevInternalSettings getDevSettings() {
+    return mDevSettings;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void startInspector() {
+    mDevServerHelper.openInspectorConnection();
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void stopInspector() {
+    mDevServerHelper.closeInspectorConnection();
+  }
+}