diff --git a/packages/cloudflare/src/index.ts b/packages/cloudflare/src/index.ts
index d114590262bf..a3a07a905470 100644
--- a/packages/cloudflare/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/cloudflare/src/index.ts
@@ -106,7 +106,8 @@ export {
   withStreamedSpan,
   spanStreamingIntegration,
 } from '@sentry/core';
-export { instrumentPostgresJsSql, trpcMiddleware, wrapMcpServerWithSentry } from '@sentry/core/server';
+export { trpcMiddleware, wrapMcpServerWithSentry } from '@sentry/core/server';
+export { instrumentPostgresJsSql } from '@sentry/server-utils';
 
 export { withSentry } from './withSentry';
 export { defineCloudflareOptions } from './defineCloudflareOptions';
diff --git a/packages/cloudflare/src/instrumentations/instrumentSqlStorage.ts b/packages/cloudflare/src/instrumentations/instrumentSqlStorage.ts
index 092074c371f6..e7ae5e5d173f 100644
--- a/packages/cloudflare/src/instrumentations/instrumentSqlStorage.ts
+++ b/packages/cloudflare/src/instrumentations/instrumentSqlStorage.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import type { SqlStorage } from '@cloudflare/workers-types';
 import { SENTRY_OP } from '@sentry/conventions/attributes';
 import { DB_QUERY } from '@sentry/conventions/op';
 import { getClient, SEMANTIC_ATTRIBUTE_SENTRY_ORIGIN, startSpan } from '@sentry/core';
-import { _INTERNAL_getSqlQuerySummary, _INTERNAL_sanitizeSqlQuery } from '@sentry/core/server';
+import { getSqlQuerySummary, sanitizeSqlQuery } from '@sentry/server-utils';
 import type { CloudflareClientOptions } from '../client';
 import { targetsCloudflareInternalTable } from '../utils/internalSqlQuery';
 
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ export function instrumentSqlStorage(sql: SqlStorage): SqlStorage {
       return function (this: unknown, ...args: unknown[]) {
         const [query, ...bindings] = args as [string, ...unknown[]];
 
-        const sanitizedQuery = _INTERNAL_sanitizeSqlQuery(query);
-        const querySummary = _INTERNAL_getSqlQuerySummary(sanitizedQuery);
+        const sanitizedQuery = sanitizeSqlQuery(query);
+        const querySummary = getSqlQuerySummary(sanitizedQuery);
 
         // oxlint-disable-next-line typescript/no-unnecessary-type-assertion -- rule false positive: the cast reaches the Cloudflare-only `durableObjectSqlSpanAllowlist`; tsc errors without it
         const allowlist = (getClient()?.getOptions() as CloudflareClientOptions | undefined)
diff --git a/packages/cloudflare/src/instrumentations/worker/instrumentD1.ts b/packages/cloudflare/src/instrumentations/worker/instrumentD1.ts
index 322ffa4c4e4b..3827a3eafdc0 100644
--- a/packages/cloudflare/src/instrumentations/worker/instrumentD1.ts
+++ b/packages/cloudflare/src/instrumentations/worker/instrumentD1.ts
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import {
   SPAN_STATUS_ERROR,
   startSpan,
 } from '@sentry/core';
-import { _INTERNAL_getSqlQuerySummary, _INTERNAL_sanitizeSqlQuery } from '@sentry/core/server';
+import { getSqlQuerySummary, sanitizeSqlQuery } from '@sentry/server-utils';
 import { ensureInstrumented } from '../../instrument';
 
 // Patching is based on internal Cloudflare D1 API
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ function createD1Breadcrumb(query: string, type: D1QueryType, d1Result?: D1Respo
 }
 
 function createStartSpanOptions(query: string, type: D1QueryType): StartSpanOptions {
-  const querySummary = query ? _INTERNAL_getSqlQuerySummary(_INTERNAL_sanitizeSqlQuery(query)) : undefined;
+  const querySummary = query ? getSqlQuerySummary(sanitizeSqlQuery(query)) : undefined;
 
   const client = getClient();
   const name = client && hasSpanStreamingEnabled(client) ? querySummary || 'cloudflare-d1' : query;
diff --git a/packages/core/src/server.ts b/packages/core/src/server.ts
index 0accf0ad69ce..7bc3aca4abb6 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/server.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/server.ts
@@ -23,20 +23,6 @@ export type {
   ExpressErrorMiddleware,
 } from './integrations/express/types';
 /* oxlint-enable typescript/no-deprecated */
-export {
-  instrumentPostgresJsSql,
-  _reconstructQuery as _INTERNAL_reconstructPostgresQuery,
-  _buildConnectionContext as _INTERNAL_buildPostgresConnectionContext,
-  _getConnectionAttributes as _INTERNAL_getConnectionAttributes,
-  _getOperationName as _INTERNAL_getPostgresOperationName,
-} from './integrations/postgresjs';
-export type { PostgresConnectionContext } from './integrations/postgresjs';
-export {
-  getSqlQuerySummary as _INTERNAL_getSqlQuerySummary,
-  sanitizeSqlQuery as _INTERNAL_sanitizeSqlQuery,
-} from './utils/sql';
-export type { SqlDialect } from './utils/sql';
-
 export { patchHttpModuleClient } from './integrations/http/client-patch';
 export { getHttpClientSubscriptions } from './integrations/http/client-subscriptions';
 export { getHttpServerSubscriptions, isStaticAssetRequest } from './integrations/http/server-subscription';
diff --git a/packages/deno/src/index.ts b/packages/deno/src/index.ts
index aa3fa1babba8..fa1cb2df6b9f 100644
--- a/packages/deno/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/deno/src/index.ts
@@ -101,7 +101,8 @@ export {
   consoleLoggingIntegration,
   spanStreamingIntegration,
 } from '@sentry/core';
-export { instrumentPostgresJsSql, wrapMcpServerWithSentry } from '@sentry/core/server';
+export { wrapMcpServerWithSentry } from '@sentry/core/server';
+export { instrumentPostgresJsSql } from '@sentry/server-utils';
 
 export { DenoClient } from './client';
 
diff --git a/packages/server-utils/src/exports.ts b/packages/server-utils/src/exports.ts
index 9baca0c266f6..bf6a2e17d89e 100644
--- a/packages/server-utils/src/exports.ts
+++ b/packages/server-utils/src/exports.ts
@@ -3,3 +3,7 @@ export { setHttpServerSpanRouteAttribute } from './utils/setHttpServerSpanRouteA
 export { setAsyncLocalStorageAsyncContextStrategy } from './async-context';
 export { otlpIntegration, getOtlpTracesEndpoint } from './otlp';
 export * from './ai';
+export { getSqlQuerySummary, sanitizeSqlQuery } from './utils/sql';
+export type { SqlDialect } from './utils/sql';
+export { instrumentPostgresJsSql } from './integrations/postgresjs';
+export type { PostgresConnectionContext } from './integrations/postgresjs';
diff --git a/packages/server-utils/src/integrations/mysql.ts b/packages/server-utils/src/integrations/mysql.ts
index 3876df576a0a..30ccfdcb8e60 100644
--- a/packages/server-utils/src/integrations/mysql.ts
+++ b/packages/server-utils/src/integrations/mysql.ts
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ import {
   SEMANTIC_ATTRIBUTE_SENTRY_ORIGIN,
   startInactiveSpan,
 } from '@sentry/core';
-import { _INTERNAL_getSqlQuerySummary, _INTERNAL_sanitizeSqlQuery } from '@sentry/core/server';
+import { getSqlQuerySummary, sanitizeSqlQuery } from '../utils/sql';
 import { CHANNELS } from '../orchestrion/channels';
 import { bindTracingChannelToSpan } from '../tracing-channel';
 import { mysqlModuleNames } from '../orchestrion/config/mysql';
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ function instrumentMysql(): void {
       // handler with the caller's context lost. `deferSpanEnd` replays this scope onto the emitter.
       data._sentryCallerScope = getCurrentScope();
 
-      const querySummary = sql ? _INTERNAL_getSqlQuerySummary(_INTERNAL_sanitizeSqlQuery(sql, 'mysql')) : undefined;
+      const querySummary = sql ? getSqlQuerySummary(sanitizeSqlQuery(sql, 'mysql')) : undefined;
 
       const client = getClient();
       const name =
diff --git a/packages/server-utils/src/integrations/mysql2/index.ts b/packages/server-utils/src/integrations/mysql2/index.ts
index e00783fc27bb..684c0886b45e 100644
--- a/packages/server-utils/src/integrations/mysql2/index.ts
+++ b/packages/server-utils/src/integrations/mysql2/index.ts
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import {
   startInactiveSpan,
   waitForTracingChannelBinding,
 } from '@sentry/core';
-import { _INTERNAL_getSqlQuerySummary, _INTERNAL_sanitizeSqlQuery } from '@sentry/core/server';
+import { getSqlQuerySummary, sanitizeSqlQuery } from '../../utils/sql';
 import { subscribeMysql2DiagnosticChannels } from './mysql2-dc-subscriber';
 import type { ChannelName } from '../../orchestrion/channels';
 import { CHANNELS } from '../../orchestrion/channels';
@@ -84,9 +84,7 @@ function subscribeQueryChannel(channelName: ChannelName): void {
     data => {
       const statement = getQueryText(data.arguments);
       const connectionAttributes = getConnectionAttributes(data.self?.config);
-      const querySummary = statement
-        ? _INTERNAL_getSqlQuerySummary(_INTERNAL_sanitizeSqlQuery(statement, 'mysql'))
-        : undefined;
+      const querySummary = statement ? getSqlQuerySummary(sanitizeSqlQuery(statement, 'mysql')) : undefined;
 
       const client = getClient();
       const name =
diff --git a/packages/server-utils/src/integrations/mysql2/mysql2-dc-subscriber.ts b/packages/server-utils/src/integrations/mysql2/mysql2-dc-subscriber.ts
index b1a31e31746b..9920ac7850a5 100644
--- a/packages/server-utils/src/integrations/mysql2/mysql2-dc-subscriber.ts
+++ b/packages/server-utils/src/integrations/mysql2/mysql2-dc-subscriber.ts
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ import {
 import { DB } from '@sentry/conventions/op';
 import { getClient, hasSpanStreamingEnabled, SEMANTIC_ATTRIBUTE_SENTRY_ORIGIN, startInactiveSpan } from '@sentry/core';
 import { bindTracingChannelToSpan } from '../../tracing-channel';
-import { _INTERNAL_getSqlQuerySummary, _INTERNAL_sanitizeSqlQuery } from '@sentry/core/server';
+import { getSqlQuerySummary, sanitizeSqlQuery } from '../../utils/sql';
 
 // Channel names published by mysql2 >= 3.20.0 (see mysql2 `lib/tracing.js`).
 // Hardcoded so the subscriber does not have to import mysql2 — the channels
@@ -97,9 +97,9 @@ function setupQueryChannel(tracingChannel: MySQL2TracingChannelFactory, channelN
       // mysql2 does not sanitize its channel payload, so the statement may carry
       // raw user values (on the `query` channel they are inlined). Strip every
       // literal before it leaves the process; `values` is never attached.
-      const queryText = data.query ? _INTERNAL_sanitizeSqlQuery(data.query, 'mysql') : undefined;
+      const queryText = data.query ? sanitizeSqlQuery(data.query, 'mysql') : undefined;
       const operation = queryText?.match(SQL_OPERATION_RE)?.[1]?.toUpperCase();
-      const querySummary = _INTERNAL_getSqlQuerySummary(queryText);
+      const querySummary = getSqlQuerySummary(queryText);
 
       const client = getClient();
       const name =
diff --git a/packages/server-utils/src/integrations/postgres-js.ts b/packages/server-utils/src/integrations/postgres-js.ts
index f0eb4ee9da1f..24cf8e6c656a 100644
--- a/packages/server-utils/src/integrations/postgres-js.ts
+++ b/packages/server-utils/src/integrations/postgres-js.ts
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ import {
 } from '@sentry/conventions/attributes';
 import { DB } from '@sentry/conventions/op';
 import type { IntegrationFn, Span } from '@sentry/core';
-import type { PostgresConnectionContext } from '@sentry/core/server';
 import {
   debug,
   defineIntegration,
@@ -20,15 +19,15 @@ import {
   SPAN_STATUS_ERROR,
   startInactiveSpan,
 } from '@sentry/core';
-import {
-  _INTERNAL_buildPostgresConnectionContext,
-  _INTERNAL_getConnectionAttributes,
-  _INTERNAL_getPostgresOperationName,
-  _INTERNAL_getSqlQuerySummary,
-  _INTERNAL_reconstructPostgresQuery,
-  _INTERNAL_sanitizeSqlQuery,
-} from '@sentry/core/server';
 import { DEBUG_BUILD } from '../debug-build';
+import { getSqlQuerySummary, sanitizeSqlQuery } from '../utils/sql';
+import {
+  _buildConnectionContext,
+  _getConnectionAttributes,
+  _getOperationName,
+  _reconstructQuery,
+  type PostgresConnectionContext,
+} from './postgresjs';
 import { CHANNELS } from '../orchestrion/channels';
 import { bindTracingChannelToSpan } from '../tracing-channel';
 import { postgresJsModuleNames } from '../orchestrion/config/postgres';
@@ -125,7 +124,7 @@ function recordConnectionFromChannel(message: PostgresJsQueryContext): void {
   if (!connection || typeof connection !== 'object' || !options) {
     return;
   }
-  const context = _INTERNAL_buildPostgresConnectionContext(options);
+  const context = _buildConnectionContext(options);
   connectionContexts.set(connection, context);
   registerEndpoint(context);
 }
@@ -137,7 +136,7 @@ function setConnectionAttributes(span: Span, query: PostgresQuery, context: Post
   }
   queryRecord[CONNECTION_ATTRS_SET] = true;
   if (context) {
-    span.setAttributes(_INTERNAL_getConnectionAttributes(context));
+    span.setAttributes(_getConnectionAttributes(context));
   }
 }
 
@@ -189,7 +188,7 @@ function wrapQuerySettlement(data: PostgresJsQueryContext, span: Span, sanitized
       try {
         const command = (resolveArgs[0] as { command?: string } | undefined)?.command;
         // Re-set the operation name with the server-reported command, which is more reliable than the query text.
-        span.setAttribute(DB_OPERATION_NAME, _INTERNAL_getPostgresOperationName(sanitizedSqlQuery, command));
+        span.setAttribute(DB_OPERATION_NAME, _getOperationName(sanitizedSqlQuery, command));
         span.end();
       } catch (e) {
         DEBUG_BUILD && debug.error('[instrumentation:postgresjs] error ending span in resolve:', e);
@@ -278,10 +277,10 @@ function instrumentPostgresJs(options: PostgresJsIntegrationOptions): void {
         return undefined;
       }
 
-      const fullQuery = _INTERNAL_reconstructPostgresQuery(query.strings);
-      const sanitizedSqlQuery = _INTERNAL_sanitizeSqlQuery(fullQuery);
+      const fullQuery = _reconstructQuery(query.strings);
+      const sanitizedSqlQuery = sanitizeSqlQuery(fullQuery);
 
-      const querySummary = _INTERNAL_getSqlQuerySummary(sanitizedSqlQuery);
+      const querySummary = getSqlQuerySummary(sanitizedSqlQuery);
 
       const client = getClient();
 
@@ -304,7 +303,7 @@ function instrumentPostgresJs(options: PostgresJsIntegrationOptions): void {
           [DB_SYSTEM_NAME]: DB_SYSTEM_NAME_POSTGRES,
           [DB_QUERY_TEXT]: sanitizedSqlQuery,
           [DB_QUERY_SUMMARY]: querySummary,
-          [DB_OPERATION_NAME]: _INTERNAL_getPostgresOperationName(sanitizedSqlQuery),
+          [DB_OPERATION_NAME]: _getOperationName(sanitizedSqlQuery),
         },
       });
 
diff --git a/packages/server-utils/src/integrations/postgres.ts b/packages/server-utils/src/integrations/postgres.ts
index 49ee295249a1..d2b54e0ef089 100644
--- a/packages/server-utils/src/integrations/postgres.ts
+++ b/packages/server-utils/src/integrations/postgres.ts
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ import {
   SEMANTIC_ATTRIBUTE_SENTRY_ORIGIN,
   startInactiveSpan,
 } from '@sentry/core';
-import { _INTERNAL_getSqlQuerySummary, _INTERNAL_sanitizeSqlQuery } from '@sentry/core/server';
+import { getSqlQuerySummary, sanitizeSqlQuery } from '../utils/sql';
 import { CHANNELS } from '../orchestrion/channels';
 import { bindTracingChannelToSpan } from '../tracing-channel';
 import { pgModuleNames } from '../orchestrion/config/pg';
@@ -182,9 +182,7 @@ function querySpanOptions(ctx: PgChannelContext): { name: string; attributes: Sp
   const client = getClient();
   // The statement is sanitized before it is summarized, so that a string literal containing
   // `from`/`join` can't leak a value into the summary.
-  const querySummary = queryConfig?.text
-    ? _INTERNAL_getSqlQuerySummary(_INTERNAL_sanitizeSqlQuery(queryConfig.text))
-    : undefined;
+  const querySummary = queryConfig?.text ? getSqlQuerySummary(sanitizeSqlQuery(queryConfig.text)) : undefined;
 
   const name =
     client && hasSpanStreamingEnabled(client)
diff --git a/packages/core/src/integrations/postgresjs.ts b/packages/server-utils/src/integrations/postgresjs.ts
similarity index 97%
rename from packages/core/src/integrations/postgresjs.ts
rename to packages/server-utils/src/integrations/postgresjs.ts
index 49bb7ff38cc5..8588ed1a56ea 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/integrations/postgresjs.ts
+++ b/packages/server-utils/src/integrations/postgresjs.ts
@@ -3,16 +3,19 @@
 // without depending on OpenTelemetry module hooking.
 /* eslint-disable max-lines */
 
-import { getClient } from '../currentScopes';
+import {
+  debug,
+  getActiveSpan,
+  getClient,
+  hasSpanStreamingEnabled,
+  isObjectLike,
+  type Span,
+  type SpanAttributes,
+  SPAN_STATUS_ERROR,
+  startSpanManual,
+} from '@sentry/core';
 import { DEBUG_BUILD } from '../debug-build';
-import { SPAN_STATUS_ERROR } from '../tracing';
-import { hasSpanStreamingEnabled } from '../tracing/spans/hasSpanStreamingEnabled';
-import { startSpanManual } from '../tracing/trace';
-import type { Span, SpanAttributes } from '../types/span';
 import { getSqlQuerySummary, sanitizeSqlQuery } from '../utils/sql';
-import { debug } from '../utils/debug-logger';
-import { isObjectLike } from '../utils/is';
-import { getActiveSpan } from '../utils/spanUtils';
 import {
   DB_NAMESPACE,
   DB_OPERATION_NAME,
diff --git a/packages/core/src/utils/sql.ts b/packages/server-utils/src/utils/sql.ts
similarity index 100%
rename from packages/core/src/utils/sql.ts
rename to packages/server-utils/src/utils/sql.ts
diff --git a/packages/core/test/lib/integrations/postgresjs.test.ts b/packages/server-utils/test/integrations/postgresjs.test.ts
similarity index 97%
rename from packages/core/test/lib/integrations/postgresjs.test.ts
rename to packages/server-utils/test/integrations/postgresjs.test.ts
index dc6c4508279e..3d2283f2cc28 100644
--- a/packages/core/test/lib/integrations/postgresjs.test.ts
+++ b/packages/server-utils/test/integrations/postgresjs.test.ts
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
+import * as SentryCore from '@sentry/core';
 import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest';
-import { _reconstructQuery, instrumentPostgresJsSql } from '../../../src/integrations/postgresjs';
-import { sanitizeSqlQuery } from '../../../src/utils/sql';
-import * as tracing from '../../../src/tracing/trace';
-import * as spanUtils from '../../../src/utils/spanUtils';
+import { _reconstructQuery, instrumentPostgresJsSql } from '../../src/integrations/postgresjs';
+import { sanitizeSqlQuery } from '../../src/utils/sql';
 
 describe('PostgresJs portable instrumentation', () => {
   describe('_reconstructQuery', () => {
@@ -196,7 +195,7 @@ describe('PostgresJs portable instrumentation', () => {
     describe('span creation', () => {
       beforeEach(() => {
         // By default, mock getActiveSpan to return undefined (no parent)
-        vi.spyOn(spanUtils, 'getActiveSpan').mockReturnValue(undefined);
+        vi.spyOn(SentryCore, 'getActiveSpan').mockReturnValue(undefined);
       });
 
       afterEach(() => {
@@ -245,7 +244,7 @@ describe('PostgresJs portable instrumentation', () => {
       it('only creates one span even when handle() is called multiple times', async () => {
         const mockSpan = { setAttribute: vi.fn(), setAttributes: vi.fn(), end: vi.fn() };
         const startSpanManualSpy = vi
-          .spyOn(tracing, 'startSpanManual')
+          .spyOn(SentryCore, 'startSpanManual')
           .mockImplementation((_opts, callback) => callback(mockSpan as any, () => {}));
 
         const originalHandle = vi.fn().mockResolvedValue([]);
diff --git a/packages/core/test/lib/utils/sql.ported.test.ts b/packages/server-utils/test/utils/sql.ported.test.ts
similarity index 99%
rename from packages/core/test/lib/utils/sql.ported.test.ts
rename to packages/server-utils/test/utils/sql.ported.test.ts
index 91f5a193546a..1feca0093ca4 100644
--- a/packages/core/test/lib/utils/sql.ported.test.ts
+++ b/packages/server-utils/test/utils/sql.ported.test.ts
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
  */
 
 import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
-import { getSqlQuerySummary } from '../../../src/utils/sql';
+import { getSqlQuerySummary } from '../../src/utils/sql';
 
 describe('getSqlQuerySummary', () => {
   describe('joins', () => {
diff --git a/packages/core/test/lib/utils/sql.test.ts b/packages/server-utils/test/utils/sql.test.ts
similarity index 99%
rename from packages/core/test/lib/utils/sql.test.ts
rename to packages/server-utils/test/utils/sql.test.ts
index b41463645870..117f399dfe42 100644
--- a/packages/core/test/lib/utils/sql.test.ts
+++ b/packages/server-utils/test/utils/sql.test.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
-import { getSqlQuerySummary, sanitizeSqlQuery } from '../../../src/utils/sql';
+import { getSqlQuerySummary, sanitizeSqlQuery } from '../../src/utils/sql';
 
 describe('getSqlQuerySummary', () => {
   it.each([undefined, ''])('returns undefined for %j', input => {