diff --git a/dev-packages/e2e-tests/test-applications/tanstackstart-react/tests/tunnel.test.ts b/dev-packages/e2e-tests/test-applications/tanstackstart-react/tests/tunnel.test.ts
index d3f9694a6d22..2c609065912d 100644
--- a/dev-packages/e2e-tests/test-applications/tanstackstart-react/tests/tunnel.test.ts
+++ b/dev-packages/e2e-tests/test-applications/tanstackstart-react/tests/tunnel.test.ts
@@ -62,6 +62,15 @@ test('Sends client-side errors through the configured tunnel route', async ({ pa
   expect(errorEvent.transaction).toBe('/');
 });
 
+test('Rejects non-POST requests to the managed tunnel route instead of rendering the app', async ({ request }) => {
+  test.skip(tunnelRouteMode !== 'static', 'Requires a known managed tunnel path');
+
+  const response = await request.get('/monitor');
+
+  expect(response.status()).toBe(405);
+  expect(response.headers()['allow']).toBe('POST');
+});
+
 function pathnameMatchesTunnelRoute(pathname: string): boolean {
   return typeof expectedTunnelPathMatcher === 'string'
     ? pathname === expectedTunnelPathMatcher
diff --git a/packages/tanstackstart-react/src/vite/tunnelRoute.ts b/packages/tanstackstart-react/src/vite/tunnelRoute.ts
index c7af98412461..06f3337b4e5e 100644
--- a/packages/tanstackstart-react/src/vite/tunnelRoute.ts
+++ b/packages/tanstackstart-react/src/vite/tunnelRoute.ts
@@ -194,6 +194,10 @@ export const Route = createFileRoute(${serializedTunnelRoute})({
         const Sentry = await import('@sentry/tanstackstart-react');
         return Sentry.createSentryTunnelRoute(${serializedAllowedDsns ? `{ allowedDsns: ${serializedAllowedDsns} }` : `{}`}).handlers.POST({ request });
       },
+      // Without a handler for a method, TanStack Start falls back to SSR-rendering the app (running root loaders).
+      ANY() {
+        return new Response(null, { status: 405, headers: { Allow: 'POST' } });
+      },
     },
   },
 });
diff --git a/packages/tanstackstart-react/test/vite/tunnelRoute.test.ts b/packages/tanstackstart-react/test/vite/tunnelRoute.test.ts
index 822a01aeeeff..22b3a9be56a5 100644
--- a/packages/tanstackstart-react/test/vite/tunnelRoute.test.ts
+++ b/packages/tanstackstart-react/test/vite/tunnelRoute.test.ts
@@ -139,6 +139,15 @@ describe('tunnelRoute vite plugin', () => {
     expect(virtualRouteModule).toContain('createSentryTunnelRoute({})');
   });
 
+  it('rejects non-POST requests in the virtual managed tunnel route module', async () => {
+    const plugin = makeTunnelRoutePlugin('/monitor');
+
+    const virtualRouteModule = plugin.load && (await plugin.load('\0virtual:sentry-tanstackstart-react/tunnel-route'));
+
+    expect(virtualRouteModule).toContain('ANY()');
+    expect(virtualRouteModule).toContain("status: 405, headers: { Allow: 'POST' }");
+  });
+
   it('treats an empty string `path` like omitted and uses a generated tunnel route', () => {
     const plugin = makeTunnelRoutePlugin({ path: '' });