diff --git a/packages/core/src/tracing/sentrySpan.ts b/packages/core/src/tracing/sentrySpan.ts
index ad2bfeb7dc34..d7c800e338a7 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/tracing/sentrySpan.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/tracing/sentrySpan.ts
@@ -261,7 +261,15 @@ export class SentrySpan implements Span {
 
     // if this is a standalone span, we send it immediately
     if (this._isStandaloneSpan) {
-      sendSpanEnvelope(createSpanEnvelope([this], client));
+      if (this._sampled) {
+        sendSpanEnvelope(createSpanEnvelope([this], client));
+      } else {
+        DEBUG_BUILD &&
+          logger.log('[Tracing] Discarding standalone span because its trace was not chosen to be sampled.');
+        if (client) {
+          client.recordDroppedEvent('sample_rate', 'span');
+        }
+      }
       return;
     }
 
diff --git a/packages/core/test/lib/tracing/sentrySpan.test.ts b/packages/core/test/lib/tracing/sentrySpan.test.ts
index 5d6895f34026..9698ab5e3398 100644
--- a/packages/core/test/lib/tracing/sentrySpan.test.ts
+++ b/packages/core/test/lib/tracing/sentrySpan.test.ts
@@ -91,6 +91,39 @@ describe('SentrySpan', () => {
       expect(spanToJSON(span).timestamp).toBeGreaterThan(1);
     });
 
+    test('uses sampled config for standalone span', () => {
+      const client = new TestClient(
+        getDefaultTestClientOptions({
+          dsn: 'https://username@domain/123',
+          enableSend: true,
+        }),
+      );
+      setCurrentClient(client);
+
+      // @ts-expect-error Accessing private transport API
+      const mockSend = jest.spyOn(client._transport, 'send');
+
+      const notSampledSpan = new SentrySpan({
+        name: 'not-sampled',
+        isStandalone: true,
+        startTimestamp: 1,
+        endTimestamp: 2,
+        sampled: false,
+      });
+      notSampledSpan.end();
+      expect(mockSend).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+
+      const sampledSpan = new SentrySpan({
+        name: 'is-sampled',
+        isStandalone: true,
+        startTimestamp: 1,
+        endTimestamp: 2,
+        sampled: true,
+      });
+      sampledSpan.end();
+      expect(mockSend).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    });
+
     test('sends the span if `beforeSendSpan` does not modify the span ', () => {
       const beforeSendSpan = jest.fn(span => span);
       const client = new TestClient(