diff --git a/src/sentry/event_manager.py b/src/sentry/event_manager.py
index 128d2aebdf0c0b..bf439f829a3fe6 100644
--- a/src/sentry/event_manager.py
+++ b/src/sentry/event_manager.py
@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@
 from sentry.models.releaseprojectenvironment import ReleaseProjectEnvironment
 from sentry.models.releases.release_project import ReleaseProject
 from sentry.net.http import connection_from_url
+from sentry.options.rollout import in_random_rollout
 from sentry.plugins.base import plugins
 from sentry.quotas.base import index_data_category
 from sentry.receivers.features import record_event_processed
@@ -1961,6 +1962,12 @@ def _process_existing_aggregate(
     timeout=settings.SEER_SEVERITY_TIMEOUT,  # Defaults to 300 milliseconds
 )
 
+severity_connection_pool_group_seer = connection_from_url(
+    settings.SEER_SCORING_URL,
+    retries=settings.SEER_SEVERITY_RETRIES,
+    timeout=settings.SEER_SEVERITY_TIMEOUT,  # Defaults to 300 milliseconds
+)
+
 
 class SeverityScoreRequest(TypedDict):
     message: str
@@ -1983,8 +1990,11 @@ def make_severity_score_request(
         payload["trigger_timeout"] = True
     if options.get("processing.severity-backlog-test.error"):
         payload["trigger_error"] = True
+    default_connection_pool = severity_connection_pool
+    if in_random_rollout("issues.severity.group-seer-rollout-rate"):
+        default_connection_pool = severity_connection_pool_group_seer
     return make_signed_seer_api_request(
-        connection_pool or severity_connection_pool,
+        connection_pool or default_connection_pool,
         "/v0/issues/severity-score",
         body=orjson.dumps(payload),
         timeout=timeout,
diff --git a/src/sentry/options/defaults.py b/src/sentry/options/defaults.py
index 8ce8595c1e23f5..5c29b676cb32f1 100644
--- a/src/sentry/options/defaults.py
+++ b/src/sentry/options/defaults.py
@@ -1132,6 +1132,12 @@
     flags=FLAG_ALLOW_EMPTY | FLAG_AUTOMATOR_MODIFIABLE,
 )
 
+register(
+    "issues.severity.group-seer-rollout-rate",
+    type=Float,
+    default=0.0,
+    flags=FLAG_AUTOMATOR_MODIFIABLE,
+)
 
 # Killswitch for issue priority
 register(
diff --git a/tests/sentry/event_manager/test_severity.py b/tests/sentry/event_manager/test_severity.py
index cb3043301192aa..c7977a1d7e3640 100644
--- a/tests/sentry/event_manager/test_severity.py
+++ b/tests/sentry/event_manager/test_severity.py
@@ -17,8 +17,11 @@
 from sentry.event_manager import (
     SEER_ERROR_COUNT_KEY,
     EventManager,
+    SeverityScoreRequest,
     _get_severity_score,
+    make_severity_score_request,
     severity_connection_pool,
+    severity_connection_pool_group_seer,
 )
 from sentry.models.group import Group
 from sentry.testutils.cases import TestCase
@@ -329,6 +332,24 @@ def test_other_exception(
         assert reason == "microservice_error"
         assert cache.get(SEER_ERROR_COUNT_KEY) == 1
 
+    @patch("sentry.event_manager.make_signed_seer_api_request")
+    def test_group_seer_rollout_selects_pool(self, mock_request: MagicMock) -> None:
+        body: SeverityScoreRequest = {
+            "message": "boom",
+            "has_stacktrace": 0,
+            "handled": True,
+            "org_id": 1,
+            "project_id": 1,
+        }
+
+        with override_options({"issues.severity.group-seer-rollout-rate": 0.0}):
+            make_severity_score_request(body)
+        assert mock_request.call_args[0][0] is severity_connection_pool
+
+        with override_options({"issues.severity.group-seer-rollout-rate": 1.0}):
+            make_severity_score_request(body)
+        assert mock_request.call_args[0][0] is severity_connection_pool_group_seer
+
 
 @with_feature("projects:first-event-severity-calculation")
 @with_feature("organizations:seer-based-priority")