diff --git a/poh-bench/Cargo.toml b/poh-bench/Cargo.toml
index 90f7144de3b664..2fe14106b15565 100644
--- a/poh-bench/Cargo.toml
+++ b/poh-bench/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ solana-entry = { workspace = true }
 solana-logger = { workspace = true }
 solana-measure = { workspace = true }
 solana-perf = { workspace = true }
-solana-sdk = { workspace = true }
+solana-sdk = { workspace = true, features = ["dev-utils"] }
 solana-version = { workspace = true }
 
 [package.metadata.docs.rs]
diff --git a/scripts/check-dev-utils.sh b/scripts/check-dev-utils.sh
index 3cc04b371cf802..148b372ad74136 100755
--- a/scripts/check-dev-utils.sh
+++ b/scripts/check-dev-utils.sh
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ declare -r dev_utils_feature="dev-utils"
 declare dev_util_tainted_packages=(
   "solana-banking-bench"
   "solana-banking-bench2"
+  "solana-poh-bench"
 )
 
 # convert to comma separeted (ref: https://stackoverflow.com/a/53839433)