diff --git a/.changeset/cli-node-parallel-helpers.md b/.changeset/cli-node-parallel-helpers.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d4cea5c3c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/cli-node-parallel-helpers.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'@backstage/cli-node': minor
+---
+
+Added parallel worker utilities: `runParallelWorkers`, `runWorkerQueueThreads`, `runWorkerThreads`, `parseParallelismOption`, and `getEnvironmentParallelism`. These were moved from the `@backstage/cli` internal code.
diff --git a/packages/cli-node/report.api.md b/packages/cli-node/report.api.md
index 55d2443643..960bbf9f59 100644
--- a/packages/cli-node/report.api.md
+++ b/packages/cli-node/report.api.md
@@ -86,6 +86,9 @@ export interface BackstagePackageJson {
   version: string;
 }
 
+// @public
+export function getEnvironmentParallelism(): number;
+
 // @public
 export class GitUtils {
   static listChangedFiles(ref: string): Promise<string[]>;
@@ -200,4 +203,56 @@ export class PackageRoles {
   static getRoleFromPackage(pkgJson: unknown): PackageRole | undefined;
   static getRoleInfo(role: string): PackageRoleInfo;
 }
+
+// @public
+export type ParallelismOption = boolean | string | number | null | undefined;
+
+// @public
+export type ParallelWorkerOptions<TItem> = {
+  parallelismFactor?: number;
+  parallelismSetting?: ParallelismOption;
+  items: Iterable<TItem>;
+  worker: (item: TItem) => Promise<void>;
+};
+
+// @public
+export function parseParallelismOption(parallel: ParallelismOption): number;
+
+// @public
+export function runParallelWorkers<TItem>(
+  options: ParallelWorkerOptions<TItem>,
+): Promise<void[]>;
+
+// @public
+export function runWorkerQueueThreads<TItem, TResult, TData>(
+  options: WorkerQueueThreadsOptions<TItem, TResult, TData>,
+): Promise<TResult[]>;
+
+// @public
+export function runWorkerThreads<TResult, TData, TMessage>(
+  options: WorkerThreadsOptions<TResult, TData, TMessage>,
+): Promise<TResult[]>;
+
+// @public
+export type WorkerQueueThreadsOptions<TItem, TResult, TData> = {
+  items: Iterable<TItem>;
+  workerFactory: (
+    data: TData,
+  ) =>
+    | ((item: TItem) => Promise<TResult>)
+    | Promise<(item: TItem) => Promise<TResult>>;
+  workerData?: TData;
+  threadCount?: number;
+};
+
+// @public
+export type WorkerThreadsOptions<TResult, TData, TMessage> = {
+  worker: (
+    data: TData,
+    sendMessage: (message: TMessage) => void,
+  ) => Promise<TResult>;
+  workerData?: TData;
+  threadCount?: number;
+  onMessage?: (message: TMessage) => void;
+};
 ```
diff --git a/packages/cli-node/src/index.ts b/packages/cli-node/src/index.ts
index 1d3f3ec2ed..6d1c519b9e 100644
--- a/packages/cli-node/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/cli-node/src/index.ts
@@ -22,4 +22,5 @@
 
 export * from './git';
 export * from './monorepo';
+export * from './parallel';
 export * from './roles';
diff --git a/packages/cli-node/src/parallel/index.ts b/packages/cli-node/src/parallel/index.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..60cd2e28b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/cli-node/src/parallel/index.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2020 The Backstage Authors
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+export type { ParallelismOption, ParallelWorkerOptions } from './parallel';
+export {
+  parseParallelismOption,
+  getEnvironmentParallelism,
+  runParallelWorkers,
+  runWorkerQueueThreads,
+  runWorkerThreads,
+} from './parallel';
+export type {
+  WorkerQueueThreadsOptions,
+  WorkerThreadsOptions,
+} from './parallel';
diff --git a/packages/cli/src/lib/parallel.test.ts b/packages/cli-node/src/parallel/parallel.test.ts
similarity index 100%
rename from packages/cli/src/lib/parallel.test.ts
rename to packages/cli-node/src/parallel/parallel.test.ts
diff --git a/packages/cli/src/lib/parallel.ts b/packages/cli-node/src/parallel/parallel.ts
similarity index 92%
rename from packages/cli/src/lib/parallel.ts
rename to packages/cli-node/src/parallel/parallel.ts
index a4ca5dd13d..26c5803a93 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/lib/parallel.ts
+++ b/packages/cli-node/src/parallel/parallel.ts
@@ -22,8 +22,21 @@ const defaultParallelism = Math.ceil(os.cpus().length / 2);
 
 const PARALLEL_ENV_VAR = 'BACKSTAGE_CLI_BUILD_PARALLEL';
 
+/**
+ * Options for configuring parallelism. Can be a boolean, string, number, null, or undefined.
+ * - Boolean: true uses default parallelism (half of CPUs), false uses 1
+ * - Number: explicit worker count
+ * - String: parsed as boolean or integer (e.g. "true", "4")
+ *
+ * @public
+ */
 export type ParallelismOption = boolean | string | number | null | undefined;
 
+/**
+ * Parses a parallelism option value into a concrete worker count.
+ *
+ * @public
+ */
 export function parseParallelismOption(parallel: ParallelismOption): number {
   if (parallel === undefined || parallel === null) {
     return defaultParallelism;
@@ -51,11 +64,21 @@ export function parseParallelismOption(parallel: ParallelismOption): number {
   );
 }
 
+/**
+ * Returns the parallelism value from the BACKSTAGE_CLI_BUILD_PARALLEL environment variable.
+ *
+ * @public
+ */
 export function getEnvironmentParallelism() {
   return parseParallelismOption(process.env[PARALLEL_ENV_VAR]);
 }
 
-type ParallelWorkerOptions<TItem> = {
+/**
+ * Options for runParallelWorkers.
+ *
+ * @public
+ */
+export type ParallelWorkerOptions<TItem> = {
   /**
    * Decides the number of parallel workers by multiplying
    * this with the configured parallelism, which defaults to 4.
@@ -68,6 +91,11 @@ type ParallelWorkerOptions<TItem> = {
   worker: (item: TItem) => Promise<void>;
 };
 
+/**
+ * Runs items through a worker function in parallel across multiple async workers.
+ *
+ * @public
+ */
 export async function runParallelWorkers<TItem>(
   options: ParallelWorkerOptions<TItem>,
 ) {
@@ -119,6 +147,11 @@ type WorkerThreadMessage =
       message: unknown;
     };
 
+/**
+ * Options for runWorkerQueueThreads.
+ *
+ * @public
+ */
 export type WorkerQueueThreadsOptions<TItem, TResult, TData> = {
   /** The items to process */
   items: Iterable<TItem>;
@@ -149,6 +182,8 @@ export type WorkerQueueThreadsOptions<TItem, TResult, TData> = {
 /**
  * Spawns one or more worker threads using the `worker_threads` module.
  * Each thread processes one item at a time from the provided `options.items`.
+ *
+ * @public
  */
 export async function runWorkerQueueThreads<TItem, TResult, TData>(
   options: WorkerQueueThreadsOptions<TItem, TResult, TData>,
@@ -250,6 +285,11 @@ function workerQueueThread(
     );
 }
 
+/**
+ * Options for runWorkerThreads.
+ *
+ * @public
+ */
 export type WorkerThreadsOptions<TResult, TData, TMessage> = {
   /**
    * A function that is called by each worker thread to produce a result.
@@ -277,6 +317,8 @@ export type WorkerThreadsOptions<TResult, TData, TMessage> = {
 
 /**
  * Spawns one or more worker threads using the `worker_threads` module.
+ *
+ * @public
  */
 export async function runWorkerThreads<TResult, TData, TMessage>(
   options: WorkerThreadsOptions<TResult, TData, TMessage>,
diff --git a/packages/cli/src/modules/build/commands/repo/build.ts b/packages/cli/src/modules/build/commands/repo/build.ts
index e64fe9eff0..22c72c91dd 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/modules/build/commands/repo/build.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/src/modules/build/commands/repo/build.ts
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ import {
   BackstagePackage,
   PackageGraph,
   PackageRoles,
+  runParallelWorkers,
 } from '@backstage/cli-node';
-import { runParallelWorkers } from '../../../../lib/parallel';
 import { buildFrontend } from '../../lib/buildFrontend';
 import { buildBackend } from '../../lib/buildBackend';
 import { createScriptOptionsParser } from '../../../../lib/optionsParser';
diff --git a/packages/cli/src/modules/build/lib/buildBackend.ts b/packages/cli/src/modules/build/lib/buildBackend.ts
index f377d068bd..ddf9b1f667 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/modules/build/lib/buildBackend.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/src/modules/build/lib/buildBackend.ts
@@ -19,9 +19,8 @@ import fs from 'fs-extra';
 import { resolve as resolvePath } from 'node:path';
 import * as tar from 'tar';
 import { createDistWorkspace } from './packager';
-import { getEnvironmentParallelism } from '../../../lib/parallel';
 import { buildPackage, Output } from './builder';
-import { PackageGraph } from '@backstage/cli-node';
+import { PackageGraph, getEnvironmentParallelism } from '@backstage/cli-node';
 
 const BUNDLE_FILE = 'bundle.tar.gz';
 const SKELETON_FILE = 'skeleton.tar.gz';
diff --git a/packages/cli/src/modules/build/lib/buildFrontend.ts b/packages/cli/src/modules/build/lib/buildFrontend.ts
index 7b0955a519..bb00de7951 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/modules/build/lib/buildFrontend.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/src/modules/build/lib/buildFrontend.ts
@@ -17,9 +17,11 @@
 import fs from 'fs-extra';
 import { resolve as resolvePath } from 'node:path';
 import { buildBundle, getModuleFederationRemoteOptions } from './bundler';
-import { getEnvironmentParallelism } from '../../../lib/parallel';
+import {
+  BackstagePackageJson,
+  getEnvironmentParallelism,
+} from '@backstage/cli-node';
 import { loadCliConfig } from '../../config/lib/config';
-import { BackstagePackageJson } from '@backstage/cli-node';
 
 interface BuildAppOptions {
   targetDir: string;
diff --git a/packages/cli/src/modules/build/lib/builder/packager.ts b/packages/cli/src/modules/build/lib/builder/packager.ts
index 12017b694c..b0a34780d7 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/modules/build/lib/builder/packager.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/src/modules/build/lib/builder/packager.ts
@@ -21,8 +21,7 @@ import { relative as relativePath, resolve as resolvePath } from 'node:path';
 import { paths } from '../../../../lib/paths';
 import { makeRollupConfigs } from './config';
 import { BuildOptions, Output } from './types';
-import { PackageRoles } from '@backstage/cli-node';
-import { runParallelWorkers } from '../../../../lib/parallel';
+import { PackageRoles, runParallelWorkers } from '@backstage/cli-node';
 
 export function formatErrorMessage(error: any) {
   let msg = '';
diff --git a/packages/cli/src/modules/build/lib/packager/createDistWorkspace.ts b/packages/cli/src/modules/build/lib/packager/createDistWorkspace.ts
index 0f096a3127..b53bca62a6 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/modules/build/lib/packager/createDistWorkspace.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/src/modules/build/lib/packager/createDistWorkspace.ts
@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@ import {
   PackageRoles,
   PackageGraph,
   PackageGraphNode,
+  runParallelWorkers,
 } from '@backstage/cli-node';
-import { runParallelWorkers } from '../../../../lib/parallel';
 import { createTypeDistProject } from '../../../../lib/typeDistProject';
 
 // These packages aren't safe to pack in parallel since the CLI depends on them
diff --git a/packages/cli/src/modules/lint/commands/repo/lint.ts b/packages/cli/src/modules/lint/commands/repo/lint.ts
index 458ccf1a63..0e17f97dd2 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/modules/lint/commands/repo/lint.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/src/modules/lint/commands/repo/lint.ts
@@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ import {
   PackageGraph,
   BackstagePackageJson,
   Lockfile,
+  runWorkerQueueThreads,
 } from '@backstage/cli-node';
 import { paths } from '../../../../lib/paths';
-import { runWorkerQueueThreads } from '../../../../lib/parallel';
 import { createScriptOptionsParser } from '../../../../lib/optionsParser';
 import { SuccessCache } from '../../../../lib/cache/SuccessCache';
 
diff --git a/packages/cli/src/modules/migrate/commands/versions/bump.ts b/packages/cli/src/modules/migrate/commands/versions/bump.ts
index ab65f8c604..06658cea5f 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/modules/migrate/commands/versions/bump.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/src/modules/migrate/commands/versions/bump.ts
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ import {
   mapDependencies,
   YarnInfoInspectData,
 } from '../../../../lib/versioning';
-import { runParallelWorkers } from '../../../../lib/parallel';
+import { runParallelWorkers } from '@backstage/cli-node';
 import {
   getManifestByReleaseLine,
   getManifestByVersion,