diff --git a/packages/next/server/dev/hot-reloader.ts b/packages/next/server/dev/hot-reloader.ts
index a04315a4291a..529baa9195f8 100644
--- a/packages/next/server/dev/hot-reloader.ts
+++ b/packages/next/server/dev/hot-reloader.ts
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ import {
 import { watchCompilers } from '../../build/output'
 import * as Log from '../../build/output/log'
 import getBaseWebpackConfig from '../../build/webpack-config'
-import { API_ROUTE, APP_DIR_ALIAS } from '../../lib/constants'
+import { APP_DIR_ALIAS } from '../../lib/constants'
 import { recursiveDelete } from '../../lib/recursive-delete'
 import {
   BLOCKED_PAGES,
@@ -78,9 +78,8 @@ export async function renderScriptError(
 }
 
 function addCorsSupport(req: IncomingMessage, res: ServerResponse) {
-  const isApiRoute = req.url!.match(API_ROUTE)
-  // API routes handle their own CORS headers
-  if (isApiRoute) {
+  // Only rewrite CORS handling when URL matches a hot-reloader middleware
+  if (!req.url!.startsWith('/__next')) {
     return { preflight: false }
   }
 
diff --git a/test/development/api-cors-with-rewrite/index.test.ts b/test/development/api-cors-with-rewrite/index.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ea76a4235072
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/development/api-cors-with-rewrite/index.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+import { createNext } from 'e2e-utils'
+import { NextInstance } from 'test/lib/next-modes/base'
+import { fetchViaHTTP } from 'next-test-utils'
+
+describe('Rewritten API Requests should pass OPTIONS requests to the api function', () => {
+  let next: NextInstance
+
+  beforeAll(async () => {
+    next = await createNext({
+      files: {
+        'pages/api/some-endpoint.js': `
+          export default (req, res) => {
+            res.end("successfully hit some-endpoint!")
+          } 
+        `,
+      },
+      nextConfig: {
+        rewrites: () =>
+          Promise.resolve({
+            beforeFiles: [
+              // Nextjs by default requires a /api prefix, let's remove that
+              {
+                source: '/:path*',
+                destination: '/api/:path*',
+              },
+            ],
+            afterFiles: [],
+            fallback: [],
+          }),
+      },
+      dependencies: {},
+    })
+  })
+  afterAll(() => next.destroy())
+
+  it('should pass OPTIONS requests to the api function', async () => {
+    const res = await fetchViaHTTP(next.url, '/some-endpoint', null, {
+      method: 'OPTIONS',
+      headers: {
+        Origin: 'http://localhost:3000',
+      },
+    })
+    expect(await res.text()).toContain('successfully hit some-endpoint!')
+  })
+})