diff --git a/includes/format-switching.yml b/includes/format-switching.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d807d7ed17270e461b681e11949be98c065bd6ac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/includes/format-switching.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+format-switching-smoke-test:
+  extends:
+    - .test-job-linux
+    - .rules-merge-request-to-main
+  stage: test
+  needs: ["build-codec-linux-clang-make"]
+  tags:
+    - ivas-linux
+  script:
+    - bash "${CI_PROJECT_DIR}"/ivas-codec-ci/snippets/print-common-info.sh
+    - |
+      if [ "$CI_PROJECT_ID" == "$PROJECT_ID_BASOP" ]; then
+          bash "${CI_PROJECT_DIR}"/ivas-codec-ci/snippets/basop/update-scripts-repo.sh
+      fi
+    - make -j IVAS_dec
+    - python3 -m pytest tests/format_switching/test_format_switching.py --html report.html --self-contained-html --junit-xml report.xml
+  timeout: "20 minutes"
+  artifacts:
+    when: always
+    paths:
+      - report.html
+      - report.xml
+    name: "$CI_JOB_NAME--$CI_MERGE_REQUEST_IID--sha-$CI_COMMIT_SHORT_SHA--fmt-sw-smoketest"
+    expose_as: "fmt-sw-smoketest"
+    expire_in: "5 days"
+
+format-switching-compare-test:
+  extends:
+    - .test-job-linux
+    - .rules-merge-request-to-main
+  stage: compare
+  needs: ["build-codec-linux-clang-make"]
+  tags:
+    - ivas-linux
+  script:
+    - bash "${CI_PROJECT_DIR}"/ivas-codec-ci/snippets/print-common-info.sh
+    - |
+      if [ "$CI_PROJECT_ID" == "$PROJECT_ID_BASOP" ]; then
+          bash "${CI_PROJECT_DIR}"/ivas-codec-ci/snippets/basop/update-scripts-repo.sh
+      fi
+
+    - git checkout $CI_MERGE_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_NAME
+    - make -j IVAS_dec
+    - mv IVAS_dec IVAS_dec_ref
+    - git checkout $CI_COMMIT_SHORT_SHA
+    - make clean
+    - make -j IVAS_dec
+    - python3 -m pytest tests/format_switching/test_format_switching.py --create_ref --ref_decoder_path ./IVAS_dec_ref
+    - python3 -m pytest tests/format_switching/test_format_switching.py --html report.html --self-contained-html --junit-xml report.xml --create_cut
+  timeout: "20 minutes"
+  artifacts:
+    when: always
+    paths:
+      - report.html
+      - report.xml
+    name: "$CI_JOB_NAME--$CI_MERGE_REQUEST_IID--sha-$CI_COMMIT_SHORT_SHA--fmt-sw-compare"
+    expose_as: "fmt-sw-smoketest"
+    expire_in: "5 days"
+
+format-switching-sanitizers:
+  extends:
+    - .test-job-linux
+    - .rules-merge-request-to-main
+  stage: test
+  needs: ["build-codec-linux-clang-make"]
+  parallel:
+    matrix:
+      - SANITIZER:
+        - MSAN
+        - ASAN
+        - USAN
+  tags:
+    - ivas-linux
+  script:
+    - bash "${CI_PROJECT_DIR}"/ivas-codec-ci/snippets/print-common-info.sh
+    - |
+      if [ "$CI_PROJECT_ID" == "$PROJECT_ID_BASOP" ]; then
+          bash "${CI_PROJECT_DIR}"/ivas-codec-ci/snippets/basop/update-scripts-repo.sh
+      fi
+
+    - declare -A CLANG_NUM_4_SANITIZER
+    - CLANG_NUM_4_SANITIZER["MSAN"]=1
+    - CLANG_NUM_4_SANITIZER["ASAN"]=2
+    - CLANG_NUM_4_SANITIZER["USAN"]=3
+
+    - clang_num="${CLANG_NUM_4_SANITIZER[$SANITIZER]}"
+
+    - make -j IVAS_dec CLANG=$clang_num
+    # TODO: for basop - ignorelist
+    - export UBSAN_OPTIONS=suppressions=scripts/ubsan.supp,report_error_type=1,print_stacktrace=1
+    - python3 -m pytest tests/format_switching/test_format_switching.py --create_ref --ref_decoder_path ./IVAS_dec --html report.html --self-contained-html --junit-xml report.xml
+  timeout: "20 minutes"
+  artifacts:
+    when: always
+    paths:
+      - report.html
+      - report.xml
+    name: "$CI_JOB_NAME--$CI_MERGE_REQUEST_IID--sha-$CI_COMMIT_SHORT_SHA--fmt-sw-sanitizers"
+    expose_as: "fmt-sw-smoketest"
+    expire_in: "5 days"
diff --git a/main-float.yml b/main-float.yml
index 1503dc2c9cbcfb8e0a5b73de5d67a2b05f5539ab..69dacf32149701ca0ae4c15fbbe17aa094abcda3 100644
--- a/main-float.yml
+++ b/main-float.yml
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ include:
   - local: includes/build-jobs.yml
   - local: includes/rules.yml
   - local: includes/check-first-frame-is-sid.yml
+  - local: includes/format-switching.yml
 
 default:
   # by default, we want all jobs to be interruptible, and we need to configure this explicitly