diff --git a/benches/Cargo.toml b/benches/Cargo.toml
index 8b575941099..6e6b58e0319 100644
--- a/benches/Cargo.toml
+++ b/benches/Cargo.toml
@@ -101,5 +101,10 @@ name = "spawn_blocking"
 path = "spawn_blocking.rs"
 harness = false
 
+[[bench]]
+name = "remote_spawn"
+path = "remote_spawn.rs"
+harness = false
+
 [lints]
 workspace = true
diff --git a/benches/remote_spawn.rs b/benches/remote_spawn.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..16cfa0b96e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/benches/remote_spawn.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+//! Benchmark remote task spawning (push_remote_task) at different concurrency
+//! levels on the multi-threaded scheduler.
+//!
+//! This measures contention on the scheduler's inject queue mutex when multiple
+//! external (non-worker) threads spawn tasks into the tokio runtime simultaneously.
+//! Every rt.spawn() from an external thread unconditionally goes through
+//! push_remote_task, making this a direct measurement of inject queue contention.
+//!
+//! For each parallelism level N (1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, capped at available parallelism):
+//! - Spawns N std::threads (external to the runtime)
+//! - Each thread spawns TOTAL_TASKS / N tasks into the runtime via rt.spawn()
+//! - All threads are synchronized with a barrier to maximize contention
+//! - Tasks are trivial no-ops to isolate the push overhead
+
+use criterion::{criterion_group, criterion_main, BenchmarkId, Criterion};
+use std::sync::Barrier;
+use tokio::runtime::{self, Runtime};
+
+/// Total number of tasks spawned across all threads per iteration.
+/// Must be divisible by the largest parallelism level (64).
+const TOTAL_TASKS: usize = 12_800;
+
+fn remote_spawn_contention(c: &mut Criterion) {
+    let parallelism_levels = parallelism_levels();
+    let mut group = c.benchmark_group("remote_spawn");
+
+    for num_threads in &parallelism_levels {
+        let num_threads = *num_threads;
+        group.bench_with_input(
+            BenchmarkId::new("threads", num_threads),
+            &num_threads,
+            |b, &num_threads| {
+                let rt = rt();
+                let tasks_per_thread = TOTAL_TASKS / num_threads;
+
+                b.iter(|| {
+                    let barrier = Barrier::new(num_threads);
+
+                    std::thread::scope(|s| {
+                        let handles: Vec<_> = (0..num_threads)
+                            .map(|_| {
+                                let barrier = &barrier;
+                                let rt = &rt;
+                                s.spawn(move || {
+                                    let mut join_handles = Vec::with_capacity(tasks_per_thread);
+                                    barrier.wait();
+
+                                    for _ in 0..tasks_per_thread {
+                                        join_handles.push(rt.spawn(async {}));
+                                    }
+                                    join_handles
+                                })
+                            })
+                            .collect();
+
+                        let all_handles: Vec<_> = handles
+                            .into_iter()
+                            .flat_map(|h| h.join().unwrap())
+                            .collect();
+
+                        rt.block_on(async {
+                            for h in all_handles {
+                                h.await.unwrap();
+                            }
+                        });
+                    });
+                });
+            },
+        );
+    }
+
+    group.finish();
+}
+
+fn parallelism_levels() -> Vec<usize> {
+    let max_parallelism = std::thread::available_parallelism()
+        .map(|p| p.get())
+        .unwrap_or(1);
+
+    [1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64]
+        .into_iter()
+        .filter(|&n| n <= max_parallelism)
+        .collect()
+}
+
+fn rt() -> Runtime {
+    runtime::Builder::new_multi_thread()
+        .enable_all()
+        .build()
+        .unwrap()
+}
+
+criterion_group!(remote_spawn_benches, remote_spawn_contention);
+
+criterion_main!(remote_spawn_benches);