diff --git a/packages/nextjs/src/index.client.ts b/packages/nextjs/src/index.client.ts
index db1aba8413fe..7a55b4d0bce2 100644
--- a/packages/nextjs/src/index.client.ts
+++ b/packages/nextjs/src/index.client.ts
@@ -1,18 +1,47 @@
 import { configureScope, init as reactInit } from '@sentry/react';
+import { Integrations } from '@sentry/tracing';
 
+import { nextRouterInstrumentation } from './performance/client';
 import { MetadataBuilder } from './utils/metadataBuilder';
 import { NextjsOptions } from './utils/nextjsOptions';
+import { addIntegration, UserIntegrations } from './utils/userIntegrations';
 
 export * from '@sentry/react';
 export { nextRouterInstrumentation } from './performance/client';
 
+const { BrowserTracing } = Integrations;
+
 /** Inits the Sentry NextJS SDK on the browser with the React SDK. */
 export function init(options: NextjsOptions): void {
   const metadataBuilder = new MetadataBuilder(options, ['nextjs', 'react']);
   metadataBuilder.addSdkMetadata();
   options.environment = options.environment || process.env.NODE_ENV;
-  reactInit(options);
+
+  // Only add BrowserTracing if a tracesSampleRate or tracesSampler is set
+  const integrations =
+    options.tracesSampleRate === undefined && options.tracesSampler === undefined
+      ? options.integrations
+      : createClientIntegrations(options.integrations);
+
+  reactInit({
+    ...options,
+    integrations,
+  });
   configureScope(scope => {
     scope.setTag('runtime', 'browser');
   });
 }
+
+const defaultBrowserTracingIntegration = new BrowserTracing({
+  routingInstrumentation: nextRouterInstrumentation,
+});
+
+function createClientIntegrations(integrations?: UserIntegrations): UserIntegrations {
+  if (integrations) {
+    return addIntegration(defaultBrowserTracingIntegration, integrations, {
+      BrowserTracing: { keyPath: 'options.routingInstrumentation', value: nextRouterInstrumentation },
+    });
+  } else {
+    return [defaultBrowserTracingIntegration];
+  }
+}
diff --git a/packages/nextjs/src/utils/userIntegrations.ts b/packages/nextjs/src/utils/userIntegrations.ts
index 006b5ebc8971..9f45e6c3d362 100644
--- a/packages/nextjs/src/utils/userIntegrations.ts
+++ b/packages/nextjs/src/utils/userIntegrations.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,36 @@
 import { Integration } from '@sentry/types';
 
 export type UserFunctionIntegrations = (integrations: Integration[]) => Integration[];
-type UserIntegrations = Integration[] | UserFunctionIntegrations;
+export type UserIntegrations = Integration[] | UserFunctionIntegrations;
+
+type Options = {
+  [integrationName: string]:
+    | {
+        keyPath: string;
+        value: unknown;
+      }
+    | undefined;
+};
+
+/**
+ * Recursively traverses an object to update an existing nested key.
+ * Note: The provided key path must include existing properties,
+ * the function will not create objects while traversing.
+ *
+ * @param obj An object to update
+ * @param value The value to update the nested key with
+ * @param keyPath The path to the key to update ex. fizz.buzz.foo
+ */
+// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
+function setNestedKey(obj: Record<string, any>, keyPath: string, value: unknown): void {
+  // Ex. foo.bar.zoop will extract foo and bar.zoop
+  const match = keyPath.match(/([a-z]+)\.(.*)/i);
+  if (match === null) {
+    obj[keyPath] = value;
+  } else {
+    setNestedKey(obj[match[1]], match[2], value);
+  }
+}
 
 /**
  * Retrieves the patched integrations with the provided integration.
@@ -12,18 +41,40 @@ type UserIntegrations = Integration[] | UserFunctionIntegrations;
  *
  * @param integration The integration to patch, if necessary.
  * @param userIntegrations Integrations defined by the user.
+ * @param options options to update for a particular integration
  * @returns Final integrations, patched if necessary.
  */
-export function addIntegration(integration: Integration, userIntegrations: UserIntegrations): UserIntegrations {
+export function addIntegration(
+  integration: Integration,
+  userIntegrations: UserIntegrations,
+  options: Options = {},
+): UserIntegrations {
   if (Array.isArray(userIntegrations)) {
-    return addIntegrationToArray(integration, userIntegrations);
+    return addIntegrationToArray(integration, userIntegrations, options);
   } else {
-    return addIntegrationToFunction(integration, userIntegrations);
+    return addIntegrationToFunction(integration, userIntegrations, options);
   }
 }
 
-function addIntegrationToArray(integration: Integration, userIntegrations: Integration[]): Integration[] {
-  if (userIntegrations.map(int => int.name).includes(integration.name)) {
+function addIntegrationToArray(
+  integration: Integration,
+  userIntegrations: Integration[],
+  options: Options,
+): Integration[] {
+  let includesName = false;
+  // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/prefer-for-of
+  for (let x = 0; x < userIntegrations.length; x++) {
+    if (userIntegrations[x].name === integration.name) {
+      includesName = true;
+    }
+
+    const op = options[userIntegrations[x].name];
+    if (op) {
+      setNestedKey(userIntegrations[x], op.keyPath, op.value);
+    }
+  }
+
+  if (includesName) {
     return userIntegrations;
   }
   return [...userIntegrations, integration];
@@ -32,10 +83,11 @@ function addIntegrationToArray(integration: Integration, userIntegrations: Integ
 function addIntegrationToFunction(
   integration: Integration,
   userIntegrationsFunc: UserFunctionIntegrations,
+  options: Options,
 ): UserFunctionIntegrations {
   const wrapper: UserFunctionIntegrations = defaultIntegrations => {
     const userFinalIntegrations = userIntegrationsFunc(defaultIntegrations);
-    return addIntegrationToArray(integration, userFinalIntegrations);
+    return addIntegrationToArray(integration, userFinalIntegrations, options);
   };
   return wrapper;
 }
diff --git a/packages/nextjs/test/index.client.test.ts b/packages/nextjs/test/index.client.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..738ecc24dc89
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/nextjs/test/index.client.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,137 @@
+import { Integrations as TracingIntegrations } from '@sentry/tracing';
+import { Integration } from '@sentry/types';
+
+import { init, Integrations, nextRouterInstrumentation, Scope } from '../src/index.client';
+import { NextjsOptions } from '../src/utils/nextjsOptions';
+
+const { BrowserTracing } = TracingIntegrations;
+
+const mockInit = jest.fn();
+let configureScopeCallback: (scope: Scope) => void = () => undefined;
+
+jest.mock('@sentry/react', () => {
+  const actual = jest.requireActual('@sentry/react');
+  return {
+    ...actual,
+    init: (options: NextjsOptions) => {
+      mockInit(options);
+    },
+    configureScope: (callback: (scope: Scope) => void) => {
+      configureScopeCallback = callback;
+    },
+  };
+});
+
+describe('Client init()', () => {
+  afterEach(() => {
+    mockInit.mockClear();
+    configureScopeCallback = () => undefined;
+  });
+
+  it('inits the React SDK', () => {
+    expect(mockInit).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(0);
+    init({});
+    expect(mockInit).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(mockInit).toHaveBeenLastCalledWith({
+      _metadata: {
+        sdk: {
+          name: 'sentry.javascript.nextjs',
+          version: expect.any(String),
+          packages: expect.any(Array),
+        },
+      },
+      environment: 'test',
+      integrations: undefined,
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('sets runtime on scope', () => {
+    const mockScope = new Scope();
+    init({});
+    configureScopeCallback(mockScope);
+    // @ts-ignore need access to protected _tags attribute
+    expect(mockScope._tags).toEqual({ runtime: 'browser' });
+  });
+
+  describe('integrations', () => {
+    it('does not add BrowserTracing integration by default if tracesSampleRate is not set', () => {
+      init({});
+
+      const reactInitOptions: NextjsOptions = mockInit.mock.calls[0][0];
+      expect(reactInitOptions.integrations).toBeUndefined();
+    });
+
+    it('adds BrowserTracing integration by default if tracesSampleRate is set', () => {
+      init({ tracesSampleRate: 1.0 });
+
+      const reactInitOptions: NextjsOptions = mockInit.mock.calls[0][0];
+      expect(reactInitOptions.integrations).toHaveLength(1);
+
+      const integrations = reactInitOptions.integrations as Integration[];
+      expect(integrations[0]).toEqual(expect.any(BrowserTracing));
+      // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/unbound-method
+      expect((integrations[0] as InstanceType<typeof BrowserTracing>).options.routingInstrumentation).toEqual(
+        nextRouterInstrumentation,
+      );
+    });
+
+    it('adds BrowserTracing integration by default if tracesSampler is set', () => {
+      init({ tracesSampler: () => true });
+
+      const reactInitOptions: NextjsOptions = mockInit.mock.calls[0][0];
+      expect(reactInitOptions.integrations).toHaveLength(1);
+
+      const integrations = reactInitOptions.integrations as Integration[];
+      expect(integrations[0]).toEqual(expect.any(BrowserTracing));
+      // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/unbound-method
+      expect((integrations[0] as InstanceType<typeof BrowserTracing>).options.routingInstrumentation).toEqual(
+        nextRouterInstrumentation,
+      );
+    });
+
+    it('supports passing integration through options', () => {
+      init({ tracesSampleRate: 1.0, integrations: [new Integrations.Breadcrumbs({ console: false })] });
+      const reactInitOptions: NextjsOptions = mockInit.mock.calls[0][0];
+      expect(reactInitOptions.integrations).toHaveLength(2);
+
+      const integrations = reactInitOptions.integrations as Integration[];
+      expect(integrations).toEqual([expect.any(Integrations.Breadcrumbs), expect.any(BrowserTracing)]);
+    });
+
+    it('uses custom BrowserTracing with array option with nextRouterInstrumentation', () => {
+      init({
+        tracesSampleRate: 1.0,
+        integrations: [new BrowserTracing({ idleTimeout: 5000, startTransactionOnLocationChange: false })],
+      });
+
+      const reactInitOptions: NextjsOptions = mockInit.mock.calls[0][0];
+      expect(reactInitOptions.integrations).toHaveLength(1);
+      const integrations = reactInitOptions.integrations as Integration[];
+      expect((integrations[0] as InstanceType<typeof BrowserTracing>).options).toEqual(
+        expect.objectContaining({
+          idleTimeout: 5000,
+          startTransactionOnLocationChange: false,
+          routingInstrumentation: nextRouterInstrumentation,
+        }),
+      );
+    });
+
+    it('uses custom BrowserTracing with function option with nextRouterInstrumentation', () => {
+      init({
+        tracesSampleRate: 1.0,
+        integrations: () => [new BrowserTracing({ idleTimeout: 5000, startTransactionOnLocationChange: false })],
+      });
+
+      const reactInitOptions: NextjsOptions = mockInit.mock.calls[0][0];
+      const integrationFunc = reactInitOptions.integrations as () => Integration[];
+      const integrations = integrationFunc();
+      expect((integrations[0] as InstanceType<typeof BrowserTracing>).options).toEqual(
+        expect.objectContaining({
+          idleTimeout: 5000,
+          startTransactionOnLocationChange: false,
+          routingInstrumentation: nextRouterInstrumentation,
+        }),
+      );
+    });
+  });
+});
diff --git a/packages/nextjs/test/userIntegrations.test.ts b/packages/nextjs/test/utils/userIntegrations.test.ts
similarity index 95%
rename from packages/nextjs/test/userIntegrations.test.ts
rename to packages/nextjs/test/utils/userIntegrations.test.ts
index 011143151a45..b6f603be5cd0 100644
--- a/packages/nextjs/test/userIntegrations.test.ts
+++ b/packages/nextjs/test/utils/userIntegrations.test.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { RewriteFrames } from '@sentry/integrations';
 import { Integration } from '@sentry/types';
 
-import { addIntegration, UserFunctionIntegrations } from '../src/utils/userIntegrations';
+import { addIntegration, UserFunctionIntegrations } from '../../src/utils/userIntegrations';
 
 const testIntegration = new RewriteFrames();