diff --git a/app/code/Magento/Catalog/Model/ProductRepository.php b/app/code/Magento/Catalog/Model/ProductRepository.php
index fefeafe46e1c4..fcb3c89711452 100644
--- a/app/code/Magento/Catalog/Model/ProductRepository.php
+++ b/app/code/Magento/Catalog/Model/ProductRepository.php
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 use Magento\Catalog\Api\Data\ProductExtension;
 use Magento\Catalog\Api\Data\ProductInterface;
 use Magento\Catalog\Model\Product\Gallery\MimeTypeExtensionMap;
+use Magento\Catalog\Model\Product\Type;
 use Magento\Catalog\Model\ProductRepository\MediaGalleryProcessor;
 use Magento\Catalog\Model\ResourceModel\Product\Collection;
 use Magento\Eav\Model\Entity\Attribute\Exception as AttributeException;
@@ -28,6 +29,7 @@
 use Magento\Framework\Exception\StateException;
 use Magento\Framework\Exception\TemporaryState\CouldNotSaveException as TemporaryCouldNotSaveException;
 use Magento\Framework\Exception\ValidatorException;
+use Magento\Catalog\Api\ProductRepositoryInterface;
 
 /**
  * @inheritdoc
@@ -35,7 +37,7 @@
  * @SuppressWarnings(PHPMD.CouplingBetweenObjects)
  * @SuppressWarnings(PHPMD.TooManyFields)
  */
-class ProductRepository implements \Magento\Catalog\Api\ProductRepositoryInterface
+class ProductRepository implements ProductRepositoryInterface
 {
     /**
      * @var \Magento\Catalog\Api\ProductCustomOptionRepositoryInterface
@@ -534,6 +536,10 @@ public function save(ProductInterface $product, $saveOptions = false)
             }
         } catch (NoSuchEntityException $e) {
             $existingProduct = null;
+
+            if ($product->getTypeId() === null) {
+                $product->setTypeId(Type::DEFAULT_TYPE);
+            }
         }
 
         $productDataArray = $this->extensibleDataObjectConverter
@@ -737,6 +743,7 @@ private function getMediaGalleryProcessor()
     private function getCollectionProcessor()
     {
         if (!$this->collectionProcessor) {
+        // phpstan:ignore ProductCollectionProcessor not found.
             $this->collectionProcessor = \Magento\Framework\App\ObjectManager::getInstance()->get(
                 // phpstan:ignore "Class Magento\Catalog\Model\Api\SearchCriteria\ProductCollectionProcessor not found."
                 \Magento\Catalog\Model\Api\SearchCriteria\ProductCollectionProcessor::class
diff --git a/dev/tests/api-functional/testsuite/Magento/Catalog/Api/ProductRepositoryInterfaceTest.php b/dev/tests/api-functional/testsuite/Magento/Catalog/Api/ProductRepositoryInterfaceTest.php
index 1fcfe79f39478..80c55d8dae579 100644
--- a/dev/tests/api-functional/testsuite/Magento/Catalog/Api/ProductRepositoryInterfaceTest.php
+++ b/dev/tests/api-functional/testsuite/Magento/Catalog/Api/ProductRepositoryInterfaceTest.php
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
  *
  * @magentoAppIsolation enabled
  * @SuppressWarnings(PHPMD.CouplingBetweenObjects)
+ * @SuppressWarnings(PHPMD.ExcessiveClassComplexity)
  */
 class ProductRepositoryInterfaceTest extends WebapiAbstract
 {
@@ -210,6 +211,7 @@ public function productCreationProvider()
      */
     private function loadWebsiteByCode($websiteCode)
     {
+        $website = null;
         $websiteRepository = Bootstrap::getObjectManager()->get(WebsiteRepository::class);
         try {
             $website = $websiteRepository->get($websiteCode);
@@ -381,6 +383,21 @@ public function testCreate($product)
         $this->deleteProduct($product[ProductInterface::SKU]);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Verify that product creation is success with type_id null
+     *
+     * @dataProvider productCreationProvider
+     */
+    public function testSaveProductWithNonExistType($product): void
+    {
+        $product[ProductInterface::TYPE_ID] = null;
+        $response = $this->saveProduct($product);
+        $this->assertArrayHasKey(ProductInterface::PRICE, $response);
+        $this->assertArrayHasKey(ProductInterface::TYPE_ID, $response);
+        $this->assertArrayHasKey(ProductInterface::VISIBILITY, $response);
+        $this->deleteProduct($product[ProductInterface::SKU]);
+    }
+
     /**
      * @param array $fixtureProduct
      *
diff --git a/setup/performance-toolkit/benchmark.jmx b/setup/performance-toolkit/benchmark.jmx
index fef19b05deafd..3b2c995a7b77f 100644
--- a/setup/performance-toolkit/benchmark.jmx
+++ b/setup/performance-toolkit/benchmark.jmx
@@ -26774,7 +26774,8 @@ if (testLabel
     "product": {
         "sku": "psku-test-${__time()}-${__threadNum}-${__Random(1,1000000)}",
         "name": "Product_${__time()}-${__threadNum}-${__Random(1,1000000)}",
-        "attributeSetId": 4
+        "attributeSetId": 4,
+        "price": "3.62"
     }
 }</stringProp>
             <stringProp name="Argument.metadata">=</stringProp>