diff --git a/config/jobs/kubernetes/sig-testing/kubernetes-kind-ci.yaml b/config/jobs/kubernetes/sig-testing/kubernetes-kind-ci.yaml
index 2bf1a4f20370..ff770b7d4ce5 100644
--- a/config/jobs/kubernetes/sig-testing/kubernetes-kind-ci.yaml
+++ b/config/jobs/kubernetes/sig-testing/kubernetes-kind-ci.yaml
@@ -297,6 +297,58 @@ periodics:
           memory: 9Gi
           cpu: 7
 
+- interval: 8h
+  cluster: k8s-infra-prow-build
+  name: ci-kubernetes-e2e-kind-alpha-beta-features-canary
+  annotations:
+    testgrid-dashboards: sig-testing-kind
+    testgrid-tab-name: kind-master-alpha-beta
+    description: Runs tests with no special requirements other than alpha or beta feature gates in a KinD cluster where alpha and beta feature gates and APIs are enabled. In contrast to ci-kubernetes-e2e-kind-alpha-beta-features it really runs all such tests, with flaky tests being the only exception.
+    testgrid-alert-email: patrick.ohly@intel.com
+    testgrid-num-columns-recent: '6'
+  labels:
+    preset-dind-enabled: "true"
+  decorate: true
+  decoration_config:
+    timeout: 2h
+  extra_refs:
+  - org: kubernetes
+    repo: kubernetes
+    base_ref: master
+    path_alias: k8s.io/kubernetes
+  spec:
+    containers:
+    - image: gcr.io/k8s-staging-test-infra/krte:v20250925-95b5a2c7a5-master
+      command:
+      - wrapper.sh
+      - bash
+      - -c
+      # Modified e2e-k8s.sh from https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind/pull/4015/files.
+      # It gets pulled here to try out that modification for a while *before* merging it.
+      - curl -sSL https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/dl/latest/linux-amd64.tgz | tar xvfz - -C "${PATH%%:*}/" && curl -sSLO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pohly/kind/46d774ce34846c9522efd9de1150b0d3cfa585c8/hack/ci/e2e-k8s.sh && chmod u+x e2e-k8s.sh && ./e2e-k8s.sh
+      env:
+      - name: FEATURE_GATES
+        value: '{"AllAlpha":true,"AllBeta":true,"EventedPLEG": false}'
+      - name: RUNTIME_CONFIG
+        value: '{"api/all":"true"}'
+      - name: LABEL_FILTER
+        # Full coverage. The only exception are known flaky tests.
+        value: "Feature: isSubsetOf OffByDefault && !Flaky"
+      - name: PARALLEL
+        value: "true"
+      # we need privileged mode in order to do docker in docker
+      securityContext:
+        privileged: true
+      resources:
+        limits:
+          memory: 9Gi
+          cpu: 7
+        requests:
+          # these are both a bit below peak usage during build
+          # this is mostly for building kubernetes
+          memory: 9Gi
+          cpu: 7
+
 - interval: 4h
   cluster: k8s-infra-prow-build
   name: ci-kubernetes-e2e-kind-alpha-beta-enabled