diff --git a/packages/browser/src/node/commands/coverage.ts b/packages/browser/src/node/commands/coverage.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 1af9c4f1e..000000000
--- a/packages/browser/src/node/commands/coverage.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-import type { BrowserCommand } from 'vitest/node'
-import type { BrowserServerCDPHandler } from '../cdp'
-
-export const _startV8Coverage: BrowserCommand<[]> = async (context) => {
-  const session: BrowserServerCDPHandler = await context.__ensureCDPHandler()
-  await session.send('Profiler.enable')
-  await session.send('Profiler.startPreciseCoverage', {
-    callCount: true,
-    detailed: true,
-  })
-}
-
-export const _takeV8Coverage: BrowserCommand<[]> = async (context) => {
-  const session: BrowserServerCDPHandler = await context.__ensureCDPHandler()
-  return session.send('Profiler.takePreciseCoverage')
-}
diff --git a/packages/browser/src/node/commands/index.ts b/packages/browser/src/node/commands/index.ts
index bcd683961..21bbe8a36 100644
--- a/packages/browser/src/node/commands/index.ts
+++ b/packages/browser/src/node/commands/index.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-import { _startV8Coverage, _takeV8Coverage } from './coverage'
 import {
   _fileInfo,
   readFile,
@@ -14,8 +13,6 @@ export default {
   removeFile: removeFile as typeof removeFile,
   writeFile: writeFile as typeof writeFile,
   // private commands
-  __vitest_startV8Coverage: _startV8Coverage as typeof _startV8Coverage,
-  __vitest_takeV8Coverage: _takeV8Coverage as typeof _takeV8Coverage,
   __vitest_markTrace: _markTrace as typeof _markTrace,
   __vitest_groupTraceStart: _groupTraceStart as typeof _groupTraceStart,
   __vitest_groupTraceEnd: _groupTraceEnd as typeof _groupTraceEnd,
diff --git a/packages/coverage-v8/src/commands.ts b/packages/coverage-v8/src/commands.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f160d0162
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/coverage-v8/src/commands.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+import type { CDPSession } from '@vitest/browser-playwright'
+import type { BrowserCommand, BrowserCommandContext } from 'vitest/node'
+
+export const commands: Record<string, BrowserCommand> = {
+  startV8Coverage,
+  takeV8Coverage,
+}
+
+async function startV8Coverage(context: BrowserCommandContext): Promise<void> {
+  const session: CDPSession = await context.__ensureCDPHandler()
+  await session.send('Profiler.enable')
+  await session.send('Profiler.startPreciseCoverage', {
+    callCount: true,
+    detailed: true,
+  })
+}
+
+async function takeV8Coverage(context: BrowserCommandContext): Promise<any> {
+  const session: CDPSession = await context.__ensureCDPHandler()
+  return session.send('Profiler.takePreciseCoverage')
+}
diff --git a/packages/coverage-v8/src/provider.ts b/packages/coverage-v8/src/provider.ts
index 950616722..308b96b7f 100644
--- a/packages/coverage-v8/src/provider.ts
+++ b/packages/coverage-v8/src/provider.ts
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ import { provider } from 'std-env'
 import c from 'tinyrainbow'
 import { BaseCoverageProvider, parseAstAsync } from 'vitest/node'
 import { version } from '../package.json' with { type: 'json' }
+import { commands } from './commands'
 
 export interface ScriptCoverageWithOffset extends Profiler.ScriptCoverage {
   startOffset: number
@@ -38,6 +39,14 @@ export class V8CoverageProvider extends BaseCoverageProvider implements Coverage
   initialize(ctx: Vitest): void {
     this._initialize(ctx)
 
+    for (const project of ctx.projects) {
+      if (project.isBrowserEnabled() && project.browser) {
+        for (const [name, command] of Object.entries(commands)) {
+          project.browser.registerCommand(`__vitest_${name}` as any, command)
+        }
+      }
+    }
+
     if (this.options.autoAttachSubprocess) {
       const isAnyThreadsPools = ctx.projects.some(p => p.config.pool === 'threads' || p.config.pool === 'vmThreads')
 
diff --git a/test/coverage-test/test/custom-provider.custom.test.ts b/test/coverage-test/test/custom-provider.custom.test.ts
index ee0033ef4..154f43503 100644
--- a/test/coverage-test/test/custom-provider.custom.test.ts
+++ b/test/coverage-test/test/custom-provider.custom.test.ts
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import { runVitest, test } from '../utils'
 test('custom provider', async () => {
   await runVitest({
     include: ['fixtures/test/math.test.ts', 'fixtures/test/even.test.ts'],
+    fsModuleCache: false,
   })
 
   const report = readFileSync('./coverage/custom-coverage-provider-report.json', 'utf-8')
diff --git a/test/coverage-test/test/mixed-versions-warning.unit.test.ts b/test/coverage-test/test/mixed-versions-warning.unit.test.ts
index fde3f3a91..a1a3bb34f 100644
--- a/test/coverage-test/test/mixed-versions-warning.unit.test.ts
+++ b/test/coverage-test/test/mixed-versions-warning.unit.test.ts
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ test('v8 provider logs warning if versions do not match', async () => {
     logger: { warn },
     config: configDefaults,
     _coverageOptions: configDefaults.coverage,
+    projects: [],
   } as any)
 
   expect(warn).toHaveBeenCalled()