diff --git a/poh-bench/Cargo.toml b/poh-bench/Cargo.toml
index 90f7144de3b664..0190b49b4d71fc 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-context-only-utils"] }
 solana-version = { workspace = true }
 
 [package.metadata.docs.rs]
diff --git a/scripts/check-dev-context-only-utils.sh b/scripts/check-dev-context-only-utils.sh
index 55ee04a72b36d3..023ef2e9b6b368 100755
--- a/scripts/check-dev-context-only-utils.sh
+++ b/scripts/check-dev-context-only-utils.sh
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ source ci/rust-version.sh nightly
 declare tainted_packages=(
   "solana-banking-bench"
   "solana-banking-bench2"
+  "solana-poh-bench"
 )
 
 # convert to comma separeted (ref: https://stackoverflow.com/a/53839433)