diff --git a/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-compiler/src/Entrypoint/Pipeline.ts b/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-compiler/src/Entrypoint/Pipeline.ts
index 1fa755499ed..dc00bf14925 100644
--- a/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-compiler/src/Entrypoint/Pipeline.ts
+++ b/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-compiler/src/Entrypoint/Pipeline.ts
@@ -147,8 +147,10 @@ function* runWithEnvironment(
   validateContextVariableLValues(hir);
   validateUseMemo(hir);
 
-  dropManualMemoization(hir);
-  yield log({ kind: "hir", name: "DropManualMemoization", value: hir });
+  if (!env.config.enablePreserveExistingManualUseMemo) {
+    dropManualMemoization(hir);
+    yield log({ kind: "hir", name: "DropManualMemoization", value: hir });
+  }
 
   inlineImmediatelyInvokedFunctionExpressions(hir);
   yield log({
diff --git a/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-compiler/src/HIR/Environment.ts b/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-compiler/src/HIR/Environment.ts
index f950068f15e..7375c35c765 100644
--- a/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-compiler/src/HIR/Environment.ts
+++ b/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-compiler/src/HIR/Environment.ts
@@ -165,6 +165,13 @@ const EnvironmentConfigSchema = z.object({
    */
   validatePreserveExistingMemoizationGuarantees: z.boolean().default(true),
 
+  /**
+   * When this is true, rather than pruning existing manual memoization but ensuring or validating
+   * that the memoized values remain memoized, the compiler will simply not prune existing calls to
+   * useMemo/useCallback.
+   */
+  enablePreserveExistingManualUseMemo: z.boolean().default(false),
+
   // 🌲
   enableForest: z.boolean().default(false),
 
diff --git a/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-compiler/src/__tests__/fixtures/compiler/useMemo-simple-preserved.expect.md b/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-compiler/src/__tests__/fixtures/compiler/useMemo-simple-preserved.expect.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6c813c27a68
--- /dev/null
+++ b/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-compiler/src/__tests__/fixtures/compiler/useMemo-simple-preserved.expect.md
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+
+## Input
+
+```javascript
+// @enablePreserveExistingManualUseMemo
+import { useMemo } from "react";
+
+function Component({ a }) {
+  let x = useMemo(() => [a], []);
+  return <div>{x}</div>;
+}
+
+export const FIXTURE_ENTRYPOINT = {
+  fn: Component,
+  params: [{ a: 42 }],
+  isComponent: true,
+};
+
+```
+
+## Code
+
+```javascript
+import { c as _c } from "react/compiler-runtime"; // @enablePreserveExistingManualUseMemo
+import { useMemo } from "react";
+
+function Component(t0) {
+  const $ = _c(5);
+  const { a } = t0;
+  let t1;
+  if ($[0] !== a) {
+    t1 = () => [a];
+    $[0] = a;
+    $[1] = t1;
+  } else {
+    t1 = $[1];
+  }
+  let t2;
+  if ($[2] === Symbol.for("react.memo_cache_sentinel")) {
+    t2 = [];
+    $[2] = t2;
+  } else {
+    t2 = $[2];
+  }
+  const x = useMemo(t1, t2);
+  let t3;
+  if ($[3] !== x) {
+    t3 = <div>{x}</div>;
+    $[3] = x;
+    $[4] = t3;
+  } else {
+    t3 = $[4];
+  }
+  return t3;
+}
+
+export const FIXTURE_ENTRYPOINT = {
+  fn: Component,
+  params: [{ a: 42 }],
+  isComponent: true,
+};
+
+```
+      
+### Eval output
+(kind: ok) <div>42</div>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-compiler/src/__tests__/fixtures/compiler/useMemo-simple-preserved.js b/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-compiler/src/__tests__/fixtures/compiler/useMemo-simple-preserved.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a5731f2f09d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-compiler/src/__tests__/fixtures/compiler/useMemo-simple-preserved.js
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+// @enablePreserveExistingManualUseMemo
+import { useMemo } from "react";
+
+function Component({ a }) {
+  let x = useMemo(() => [a], []);
+  return <div>{x}</div>;
+}
+
+export const FIXTURE_ENTRYPOINT = {
+  fn: Component,
+  params: [{ a: 42 }],
+  isComponent: true,
+};