diff --git a/packages/start-plugin-core/src/plugin.ts b/packages/start-plugin-core/src/plugin.ts
index 508500320c7..dcb88cc0c06 100644
--- a/packages/start-plugin-core/src/plugin.ts
+++ b/packages/start-plugin-core/src/plugin.ts
@@ -244,7 +244,6 @@ export function TanStackStartVitePluginCore(
                 outDir: getClientOutputDirectory(viteConfig),
               },
               optimizeDeps: {
-                exclude: crawlFrameworkPkgsResult.optimizeDeps.exclude,
                 // Ensure user code can be crawled for dependencies
                 entries: [clientAlias, routerAlias].map((entry) =>
                   // Entries are treated as `tinyglobby` patterns so need to be escaped