diff --git a/spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/comet/CometConf.scala b/spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/comet/CometConf.scala
index 6e7bb4271b..a81c28f69e 100644
--- a/spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/comet/CometConf.scala
+++ b/spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/comet/CometConf.scala
@@ -668,6 +668,14 @@ object CometConf extends ShimCometConf {
       .booleanConf
       .createWithDefault(false)
 
+  val COMET_TRIAL_ENABLED: ConfigEntry[Boolean] =
+    conf("spark.comet.trial.enabled")
+      .category(CATEGORY_EXEC_EXPLAIN)
+      .doc("Analyze each query as if Comet were enabled and emit a coverage report, but do " +
+        "not actually offload execution to native.")
+      .booleanConf
+      .createWithDefault(false)
+
   val COMET_EXPLAIN_CODEGEN_ENABLED: ConfigEntry[Boolean] =
     conf("spark.comet.explain.codegen.enabled")
       .withAlternative("spark.comet.explainCodegen.enabled")
diff --git a/spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/comet/rules/CometExecRule.scala b/spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/comet/rules/CometExecRule.scala
index ef2f37371c..58517a87a7 100644
--- a/spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/comet/rules/CometExecRule.scala
+++ b/spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/comet/rules/CometExecRule.scala
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ import org.apache.spark.sql.execution.window.WindowExec
 import org.apache.spark.sql.internal.SQLConf
 import org.apache.spark.sql.types._
 
-import org.apache.comet.{CometConf, CometExplainInfo, ExtendedExplainInfo}
+import org.apache.comet.{CometConf, CometCoverageStats, CometExplainInfo, ExtendedExplainInfo}
 import org.apache.comet.CometConf.{COMET_SPARK_TO_ARROW_ENABLED, COMET_SPARK_TO_ARROW_SUPPORTED_OPERATOR_LIST}
 import org.apache.comet.CometSparkSessionExtensions._
 import org.apache.comet.rules.CometExecRule.allExecs
@@ -617,6 +617,20 @@ case class CometExecRule(session: SparkSession)
         }
       }
 
+      // Trial mode: log how much of this query Comet would accelerate (measured from the
+      // fully-converted plan), then execute on Spark by reverting the native scans that
+      // CometScanRule produced, so nothing is actually offloaded to native. The rest of the
+      // native conversion only exists in `newPlan`, which we discard here.
+      if (CometConf.COMET_TRIAL_ENABLED.get()) {
+        logWarning(
+          s"[Comet trial] ${CometCoverageStats.forPlan(newPlan)}\n" +
+            new ExtendedExplainInfo().generateExtendedInfo(newPlan))
+        return plan.transformUp {
+          case s: CometScanExec => s.wrapped
+          case s: CometBatchScanExec => s.wrapped.copy(runtimeFilters = s.runtimeFilters)
+        }
+      }
+
       // Remove placeholders
       newPlan = newPlan.transform {
         case CometSinkPlaceHolder(_, _, s) => s
diff --git a/spark/src/test/scala/org/apache/comet/rules/CometExecRuleSuite.scala b/spark/src/test/scala/org/apache/comet/rules/CometExecRuleSuite.scala
index 5444a89fa3..0f70959a9d 100644
--- a/spark/src/test/scala/org/apache/comet/rules/CometExecRuleSuite.scala
+++ b/spark/src/test/scala/org/apache/comet/rules/CometExecRuleSuite.scala
@@ -797,4 +797,36 @@ class CometExecRuleSuite extends CometTestBase {
     }
   }
 
+  test("trial mode analyzes the plan but executes entirely on Spark") {
+    withParquetTable((0 until 100).map(i => (i, i % 5)), "tbl") {
+      val query = "SELECT _2, count(*) FROM tbl GROUP BY _2"
+      withSQLConf(
+        CometConf.COMET_ENABLED.key -> "true",
+        CometConf.COMET_EXEC_ENABLED.key -> "true",
+        CometConf.COMET_TRIAL_ENABLED.key -> "true") {
+        val df = sql(query)
+        // Results are identical to vanilla Spark.
+        checkSparkAnswer(df)
+        // Nothing is offloaded: the executed plan contains no Comet operators.
+        val cometNodes = stripAQEPlan(df.queryExecution.executedPlan).collect {
+          case p: CometPlan => p
+        }
+        assert(
+          cometNodes.isEmpty,
+          s"trial mode must not offload, but found Comet operators: $cometNodes")
+      }
+
+      // Sanity check: with trial mode off, the same query is accelerated by Comet.
+      withSQLConf(
+        CometConf.COMET_ENABLED.key -> "true",
+        CometConf.COMET_EXEC_ENABLED.key -> "true",
+        CometConf.COMET_TRIAL_ENABLED.key -> "false") {
+        val cometNodes = stripAQEPlan(sql(query).queryExecution.executedPlan).collect {
+          case p: CometPlan => p
+        }
+        assert(cometNodes.nonEmpty, "expected Comet operators when trial mode is disabled")
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
 }