diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b8fc67b6b53..c2e8119a422 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 ### Performance
 
 - Reduce the number of SDK threads: `LifecycleWatcher` now schedules the session-end task on the shared timer executor instead of creating a dedicated `java.util.Timer` thread ([#5819](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-java/pull/5819))
+- Speed up deserialization of arbitrary JSON objects by typing numbers without throwing exceptions ([#5783](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-java/pull/5783))
 
 ## 8.50.1
 
diff --git a/sentry/src/main/java/io/sentry/JsonObjectDeserializer.java b/sentry/src/main/java/io/sentry/JsonObjectDeserializer.java
index 0916f6e82d5..cd1d99d66fb 100644
--- a/sentry/src/main/java/io/sentry/JsonObjectDeserializer.java
+++ b/sentry/src/main/java/io/sentry/JsonObjectDeserializer.java
@@ -172,17 +172,16 @@ private boolean handlePrimitive(NextValue callback) throws IOException {
   }
 
   private Object nextNumber(JsonObjectReader reader) throws IOException {
-    try {
-      return reader.nextInt();
-    } catch (Exception exception) {
-      // Need to try/fail as there are no int/double/long tokens.
+    // JSON has no int/double token distinction. Probing with reader.nextInt() and catching the
+    // NumberFormatException it throws for every non-integer (e.g. timestamps) dominated the cost of
+    // deserializing arbitrary objects. Read once as a double and narrow to an int only when the
+    // value is integral and fits, which reproduces the previous return types without any throws.
+    final double value = reader.nextDouble();
+    final int intValue = (int) value;
+    if (intValue == value) {
+      return intValue;
     }
-    try {
-      return reader.nextDouble();
-    } catch (Exception exception) {
-      // Need to try/fail as there are no int/double/long tokens.
-    }
-    return reader.nextLong();
+    return value;
   }
 
   private @Nullable Token getCurrentToken() {
diff --git a/sentry/src/test/java/io/sentry/JsonObjectDeserializerTest.kt b/sentry/src/test/java/io/sentry/JsonObjectDeserializerTest.kt
index 04e2aaceba0..f2bb1d79044 100644
--- a/sentry/src/test/java/io/sentry/JsonObjectDeserializerTest.kt
+++ b/sentry/src/test/java/io/sentry/JsonObjectDeserializerTest.kt
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 package io.sentry
 
+import java.io.IOException
 import java.io.StringReader
 import java.lang.Exception
 import kotlin.test.assertEquals
+import kotlin.test.assertFailsWith
 import kotlin.test.assertNull
 import kotlin.test.fail
 import org.junit.Test
@@ -42,6 +44,54 @@ class JsonObjectDeserializerTest {
     assertEquals(1.1, actual)
   }
 
+  // A value that is integral and fits an int is typed as Integer (regardless of how it was
+  // written); anything else is a Double. This matches the behavior prior to removing the
+  // exception-based number typing.
+
+  @Test
+  fun `deserialize negative int`() {
+    assertEquals(-5, deserialize("-5"))
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  fun `deserialize negative double`() {
+    assertEquals(-3.14, deserialize("-3.14"))
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  fun `deserialize integral exponent notation as int`() {
+    assertEquals(100, deserialize("1e2"))
+    assertEquals(100, deserialize("1E2"))
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  fun `deserialize fractional exponent notation as double`() {
+    assertEquals(0.0025, deserialize("2.5e-3"))
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  fun `deserialize whole-valued decimal as int`() {
+    assertEquals(1, deserialize("1.0"))
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  fun `deserialize integer larger than int range as double`() {
+    assertEquals(1.0e10, deserialize("10000000000"))
+    assertEquals(2147483648.0, deserialize("2147483648"))
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  fun `deserialize max int as int`() {
+    assertEquals(Int.MAX_VALUE, deserialize("2147483647"))
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  fun `deserialize rejects literal overflowing to infinity`() {
+    // Strict JSON forbids non-finite numbers, so an out-of-range literal must fail rather than be
+    // stored as Infinity.
+    assertFailsWith<IOException> { deserialize("1e400") }
+  }
+
   @Test
   fun `deserialize array`() {
     val json = "[\"a\",\"b\"]"