diff --git a/napi/parser/index.d.ts b/napi/parser/index.d.ts
index 73ef36e5c29c6..8a9cad6e3210d 100644
--- a/napi/parser/index.d.ts
+++ b/napi/parser/index.d.ts
@@ -95,15 +95,9 @@ export interface ParserOptions {
 }
 export interface ParseResult {
   program: string
-  comments: Array<Comment>
+  comments: string
   errors: Array<string>
 }
-export interface Comment {
-  type: string
-  value: 'Line' | 'Block'
-  start: number
-  end: number
-}
 /**
  * Parse without returning anything.
  * This is for benchmark purposes such as measuring napi communication overhead.
diff --git a/napi/parser/parse.bench.mjs b/napi/parser/parse.bench.mjs
index f7a546285a572..1e200b9e5cb61 100644
--- a/napi/parser/parse.bench.mjs
+++ b/napi/parser/parse.bench.mjs
@@ -44,5 +44,6 @@ for (const {filename, code} of files) {
         const res = parseSync(code, {sourceFilename: filename});
         assert(res.errors.length === 0);
         JSON.parse(res.program);
+        JSON.parse(res.comments);
     });
 }
diff --git a/napi/parser/src/lib.rs b/napi/parser/src/lib.rs
index 3086b0cc8bda7..9bafd7990798f 100644
--- a/napi/parser/src/lib.rs
+++ b/napi/parser/src/lib.rs
@@ -40,15 +40,14 @@ pub struct ParserOptions {
 #[napi(object)]
 pub struct ParseResult {
     pub program: String,
-    pub comments: Vec<Comment>,
+    pub comments: String,
     pub errors: Vec<String>,
 }
 
-#[napi(object)]
-pub struct Comment {
+#[derive(Serialize)]
+pub struct Comment<'a> {
     pub r#type: &'static str,
-    #[napi(ts_type = "'Line' | 'Block'")]
-    pub value: String,
+    pub value: &'a str,
     pub start: u32,
     pub end: u32,
 }
@@ -121,11 +120,12 @@ pub fn parse_sync(source_text: String, options: Option<ParserOptions>) -> ParseR
                 CommentKind::SingleLine => "Line",
                 CommentKind::MultiLine => "Block",
             },
-            value: span.source_text(&source_text).to_string(),
+            value: span.source_text(&source_text),
             start: span.start,
             end: span.end,
         })
         .collect::<Vec<Comment>>();
+    let comments = serde_json::to_string(&comments).unwrap();
 
     ParseResult { program, comments, errors }
 }