diff --git a/js/apps/admin-ui/maven-resources/theme/keycloak.v2/admin/messages/messages_en.properties b/js/apps/admin-ui/maven-resources/theme/keycloak.v2/admin/messages/messages_en.properties
index 922d4d7e1103..eed0b61a018c 100644
--- a/js/apps/admin-ui/maven-resources/theme/keycloak.v2/admin/messages/messages_en.properties
+++ b/js/apps/admin-ui/maven-resources/theme/keycloak.v2/admin/messages/messages_en.properties
@@ -2999,6 +2999,8 @@ includeInLightweight.label=Add to lightweight access token
 includeInLightweight.tooltip=Should the claim be added to the lightweight access token?
 lightweightAccessToken=Always use lightweight access token
 lightweightAccessTokenHelp=If it is On, lightweight access tokens are always used. If it is Off, they are not used by default, but it is still possible to enable them with client policy executor
+supportJwtClaimInIntrospectionResponse=Support JWT claim in Introspection Response
+supportJwtClaimInIntrospectionResponseHelp=If it is On, introspection requests which use the header 'Accept: application/jwt' will also contain a claim named "jwt" with the claims of the introspection result encoded as JWT access token. 
 welcomeTabTitle=Welcome
 welcomeTo=Welcome to {{realmDisplayInfo}}
 welcomeText=Keycloak provides user federation, strong authentication, user management, fine-grained authorization, and more. Add authentication to applications and secure services with minimum effort. No need to deal with storing users or authenticating users.
diff --git a/js/apps/admin-ui/src/clients/advanced/AdvancedSettings.tsx b/js/apps/admin-ui/src/clients/advanced/AdvancedSettings.tsx
index 15767dcb70a0..92682aa2d6b2 100644
--- a/js/apps/admin-ui/src/clients/advanced/AdvancedSettings.tsx
+++ b/js/apps/admin-ui/src/clients/advanced/AdvancedSettings.tsx
@@ -192,6 +192,15 @@ export const AdvancedSettings = ({
             labelIcon={t("lightweightAccessTokenHelp")}
             stringify
           />
+
+          <DefaultSwitchControl
+            name={convertAttributeNameToForm<FormFields>(
+              "attributes.client.introspection.response.allow.jwt.claim.enabled",
+            )}
+            label={t("supportJwtClaimInIntrospectionResponse")}
+            labelIcon={t("supportJwtClaimInIntrospectionResponseHelp")}
+            stringify
+          />
           <FormGroup
             label={t("acrToLoAMapping")}
             fieldId="acrToLoAMapping"
diff --git a/server-spi-private/src/main/java/org/keycloak/models/Constants.java b/server-spi-private/src/main/java/org/keycloak/models/Constants.java
index d9b8d9c76b5b..93f4257ad47f 100755
--- a/server-spi-private/src/main/java/org/keycloak/models/Constants.java
+++ b/server-spi-private/src/main/java/org/keycloak/models/Constants.java
@@ -172,6 +172,8 @@ public final class Constants {
 
     public static final String USE_LIGHTWEIGHT_ACCESS_TOKEN_ENABLED = "client.use.lightweight.access.token.enabled";
 
+    public static final String SUPPORT_JWT_CLAIM_IN_INTROSPECTION_RESPONSE_ENABLED = "client.introspection.response.allow.jwt.claim.enabled";
+
     public static final String TOTP_SECRET_KEY = "TOTP_SECRET_KEY";
 
     // Sent to clients when authentication session expired, but user is already logged-in in current browser
diff --git a/services/src/main/java/org/keycloak/protocol/oidc/AccessTokenIntrospectionProvider.java b/services/src/main/java/org/keycloak/protocol/oidc/AccessTokenIntrospectionProvider.java
index e2de83f13410..59d39efc3b22 100644
--- a/services/src/main/java/org/keycloak/protocol/oidc/AccessTokenIntrospectionProvider.java
+++ b/services/src/main/java/org/keycloak/protocol/oidc/AccessTokenIntrospectionProvider.java
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 package org.keycloak.protocol.oidc;
 
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ObjectNode;
+import jakarta.ws.rs.core.HttpHeaders;
 import org.jboss.logging.Logger;
 import org.keycloak.OAuth2Constants;
 import org.keycloak.TokenVerifier;
@@ -31,6 +32,7 @@
 import org.keycloak.models.AuthenticatedClientSessionModel;
 import org.keycloak.models.ClientModel;
 import org.keycloak.models.ClientSessionContext;
+import org.keycloak.models.Constants;
 import org.keycloak.models.ImpersonationSessionNote;
 import org.keycloak.models.KeycloakSession;
 import org.keycloak.models.RealmModel;
@@ -68,6 +70,8 @@ public Response introspect(String token, EventBuilder eventBuilder) {
             accessToken = verifyAccessToken(token, eventBuilder, false);
             UserSessionModel userSession = tokenManager.getValidUserSessionIfTokenIsValid(session, realm, accessToken, eventBuilder);
 
+            ClientModel client = session.getContext().getClient();
+
             ObjectNode tokenMetadata;
             if (userSession != null) {
                 accessToken = transformAccessToken(accessToken, userSession);
@@ -107,6 +111,13 @@ public Response introspect(String token, EventBuilder eventBuilder) {
 
             tokenMetadata.put("active", userSession != null);
 
+            // if consumer requests application/jwt return a JWT representation of the introspection contents in an jwt field
+            boolean isJwtRequest = org.keycloak.utils.MediaType.APPLICATION_JWT.equals(session.getContext().getRequestHeaders().getHeaderString(HttpHeaders.ACCEPT));
+            if (isJwtRequest && Boolean.parseBoolean(client.getAttribute(Constants.SUPPORT_JWT_CLAIM_IN_INTROSPECTION_RESPONSE_ENABLED))) {
+                // consumers can use this to convert an opaque token into an JWT based token
+                tokenMetadata.put("jwt", session.tokens().encode(accessToken));
+            }
+
             return Response.ok(JsonSerialization.writeValueAsBytes(tokenMetadata)).type(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_TYPE).build();
         } catch (Exception e) {
             String clientId = accessToken != null ? accessToken.getIssuedFor() : "unknown";
diff --git a/services/src/main/java/org/keycloak/protocol/oidc/endpoints/TokenIntrospectionEndpoint.java b/services/src/main/java/org/keycloak/protocol/oidc/endpoints/TokenIntrospectionEndpoint.java
index 7991e7253d94..8c4c474fd2cb 100755
--- a/services/src/main/java/org/keycloak/protocol/oidc/endpoints/TokenIntrospectionEndpoint.java
+++ b/services/src/main/java/org/keycloak/protocol/oidc/endpoints/TokenIntrospectionEndpoint.java
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ public TokenIntrospectionEndpoint(KeycloakSession session, EventBuilder event) {
 
     @POST
     @NoCache
-    @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
+    @Produces({MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON, org.keycloak.utils.MediaType.APPLICATION_JWT})
     public Response introspect() {
         event.event(EventType.INTROSPECT_TOKEN);
 
diff --git a/testsuite/integration-arquillian/tests/base/src/test/java/org/keycloak/testsuite/oauth/TokenIntrospectionTest.java b/testsuite/integration-arquillian/tests/base/src/test/java/org/keycloak/testsuite/oauth/TokenIntrospectionTest.java
index 060371f93ba3..1836cf3ceb5a 100755
--- a/testsuite/integration-arquillian/tests/base/src/test/java/org/keycloak/testsuite/oauth/TokenIntrospectionTest.java
+++ b/testsuite/integration-arquillian/tests/base/src/test/java/org/keycloak/testsuite/oauth/TokenIntrospectionTest.java
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.TextNode;
 
+import jakarta.ws.rs.core.HttpHeaders;
 import org.apache.commons.io.output.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import org.apache.http.NameValuePair;
 import org.apache.http.client.entity.UrlEncodedFormEntity;
@@ -36,6 +37,7 @@
 import org.keycloak.crypto.Algorithm;
 import org.keycloak.events.Errors;
 import org.keycloak.jose.jws.JWSInput;
+import org.keycloak.models.Constants;
 import org.keycloak.protocol.oidc.OIDCLoginProtocol;
 import org.keycloak.representations.idm.ClientRepresentation;
 import org.keycloak.representations.idm.ClientScopeRepresentation;
@@ -63,6 +65,7 @@
 import org.keycloak.util.TokenUtil;
 
 import jakarta.ws.rs.core.UriBuilder;
+import org.keycloak.utils.MediaType;
 
 import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
@@ -73,6 +76,7 @@
 
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertNull;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
 
@@ -93,6 +97,7 @@ public void configureTestRealm(RealmRepresentation testRealm) {
         ClientRepresentation confApp = KeycloakModelUtils.createClient(testRealm, "confidential-cli");
         confApp.setSecret("secret1");
         confApp.setServiceAccountsEnabled(Boolean.TRUE);
+        confApp.setAttributes(Map.of(Constants.SUPPORT_JWT_CLAIM_IN_INTROSPECTION_RESPONSE_ENABLED,"true"));
 
         ClientRepresentation pubApp = KeycloakModelUtils.createClient(testRealm, "public-cli");
         pubApp.setPublicClient(Boolean.TRUE);
@@ -357,6 +362,29 @@ public void testIntrospectAccessTokenWithoutScope() throws Exception {
         }
     }
 
+    @Test
+    public void testIntrospectAccessTokenReturnedAsJwt() throws Exception {
+        oauth.doLogin("test-user@localhost", "password");
+        String code = oauth.getCurrentQuery().get(OAuth2Constants.CODE);
+        EventRepresentation loginEvent = events.expectLogin().assertEvent();
+        AccessTokenResponse accessTokenResponse = oauth.doAccessTokenRequest(code, "password");
+
+        // request the introspection result to be returned as JWT
+        oauth.requestHeaders(Map.of(HttpHeaders.ACCEPT, MediaType.APPLICATION_JWT));
+
+        String tokenResponse = oauth.introspectAccessTokenWithClientCredential("confidential-cli", "secret1", accessTokenResponse.getAccessToken());
+        TokenMetadataRepresentation rep = JsonSerialization.readValue(tokenResponse, TokenMetadataRepresentation.class);
+
+        assertTrue(rep.isActive());
+        assertEquals("test-user@localhost", rep.getUserName());
+        assertEquals("test-app", rep.getClientId());
+        assertEquals(loginEvent.getUserId(), rep.getSubject());
+        assertNotNull(rep.getOtherClaims().get("jwt"));
+
+        // Assert expected scope
+        AbstractOIDCScopeTest.assertScopes("openid email profile", rep.getScope());
+    }
+
     @Test
     public void testIntrospectAccessTokenES256() throws Exception {
         testIntrospectAccessToken(Algorithm.ES256);
diff --git a/testsuite/integration-arquillian/tests/base/src/test/java/org/keycloak/testsuite/oidc/LightWeightAccessTokenTest.java b/testsuite/integration-arquillian/tests/base/src/test/java/org/keycloak/testsuite/oidc/LightWeightAccessTokenTest.java
index fd455e6ef279..6b6338aba966 100644
--- a/testsuite/integration-arquillian/tests/base/src/test/java/org/keycloak/testsuite/oidc/LightWeightAccessTokenTest.java
+++ b/testsuite/integration-arquillian/tests/base/src/test/java/org/keycloak/testsuite/oidc/LightWeightAccessTokenTest.java
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 package org.keycloak.testsuite.oidc;
 
 import jakarta.ws.rs.NotFoundException;
+import jakarta.ws.rs.core.HttpHeaders;
 import org.jboss.logging.Logger;
 import org.junit.Assert;
 import org.junit.Before;
@@ -26,6 +27,7 @@
 import org.keycloak.admin.client.resource.ProtocolMappersResource;
 import org.keycloak.admin.client.resource.RealmResource;
 import org.keycloak.common.Profile;
+import org.keycloak.models.Constants;
 import org.keycloak.models.ProtocolMapperModel;
 import org.keycloak.models.utils.ModelToRepresentation;
 import org.keycloak.protocol.oidc.OIDCLoginProtocol;
@@ -56,6 +58,7 @@
 import org.keycloak.testsuite.util.OAuthClient;
 import org.keycloak.testsuite.util.ProtocolMapperUtil;
 import org.keycloak.util.JsonSerialization;
+import org.keycloak.utils.MediaType;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
@@ -103,6 +106,7 @@ public class LightWeightAccessTokenTest extends AbstractClientPoliciesTest {
     public void clientConfiguration() {
         ClientManager.realm(adminClient.realm(REALM_NAME)).clientId(TEST_CLIENT).directAccessGrant(true).setServiceAccountsEnabled(true);
         ClientManager.realm(adminClient.realm(REALM_NAME)).clientId(RESOURCE_SERVER_CLIENT_ID).directAccessGrant(true);
+        ClientManager.realm(adminClient.realm(REALM_NAME)).clientId(RESOURCE_SERVER_CLIENT_ID).updateAttribute(Constants.SUPPORT_JWT_CLAIM_IN_INTROSPECTION_RESPONSE_ENABLED, "true");
     }
 
     @Override
@@ -194,6 +198,34 @@ public void accessTokenTrueIntrospectionTrueTest() throws IOException {
         }
     }
 
+    @Test
+    public void accessTokenTrueIntrospectionReturnedAsJwt() throws IOException {
+        ProtocolMappersResource protocolMappers = setProtocolMappers(true, true, true);
+        try {
+            oauth.nonce("123456");
+            oauth.scope("address");
+            oauth.clientId(TEST_CLIENT);
+            OAuthClient.AccessTokenResponse response = browserLogin(TEST_CLIENT_SECRET, TEST_USER_NAME, TEST_USER_PASSWORD).tokenResponse;
+            String accessToken = response.getAccessToken();
+            logger.debug("accessToken:" + accessToken);
+            assertAccessToken(oauth.verifyToken(accessToken), true, true, false);
+
+            oauth.clientId(RESOURCE_SERVER_CLIENT_ID);
+
+            // request JWT in introspection response
+            oauth.requestHeaders(Map.of(HttpHeaders.ACCEPT, MediaType.APPLICATION_JWT));
+
+            String tokenResponse = oauth.introspectAccessTokenWithClientCredential(RESOURCE_SERVER_CLIENT_ID, RESOURCE_SERVER_CLIENT_PASSWORD, accessToken);
+            logger.debug("tokenResponse:" + tokenResponse);
+            AccessToken introspectionResult = JsonSerialization.readValue(tokenResponse, AccessToken.class);
+            assertTokenIntrospectionResponse(introspectionResult, true, true, false);
+
+            Assert.assertNotNull(introspectionResult.getOtherClaims().get("jwt"));
+        } finally {
+            deleteProtocolMappers(protocolMappers);
+        }
+    }
+
     @Test
     public void offlineTokenTest() throws IOException {
         ProtocolMappersResource protocolMappers = setProtocolMappers(false, true, true);