diff --git a/rerun_py/Cargo.toml b/rerun_py/Cargo.toml
index b9c5db4e9840..5357d7e53a8d 100644
--- a/rerun_py/Cargo.toml
+++ b/rerun_py/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,11 +18,11 @@ name = "rerun_bindings" # name of the .so library that the Python module will im
 default = ["extension-module"]
 
 ## Extra features that aren't ready to be included in release builds yet.
-extra = ["pypi", "remote"]
+extra = []
 
 ## The features we turn on when building the `rerun-sdk` PyPi package
 ## for <https://pypi.org/project/rerun-sdk/>.
-pypi = ["extension-module", "nasm", "web_viewer"]
+pypi = ["extension-module", "nasm", "web_viewer", "remote"]
 
 ## We need to enable the `pyo3/extension-module` when building the SDK,
 ## but we cannot enable it when building tests and benchmarks, so we
diff --git a/scripts/ci/build_and_upload_wheels.py b/scripts/ci/build_and_upload_wheels.py
index 6e62fec57f0d..0de8495db3f8 100755
--- a/scripts/ci/build_and_upload_wheels.py
+++ b/scripts/ci/build_and_upload_wheels.py
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ def build_and_upload(bucket: Bucket | None, mode: BuildMode, gcs_dir: str, targe
     elif mode is BuildMode.PR:
         maturin_feature_flags = "--no-default-features --features extension-module"
     elif mode is BuildMode.EXTRA:
-        maturin_feature_flags = "--no-default-features --features extra"
+        maturin_feature_flags = "--no-default-features --features pypi,extra"
 
     dist = f"dist/{target}"