diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 258897f4..d579ebcc 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@ debug = false
 strip = true
 
 [features]
-default = ["allocator-api2"]
+allocator-api = []
+allocator-api2 = ["dep:allocator-api2", "allocator-api"]
 internals = []
 rayon = ["std", "dep:rayon"]
 serde = ["dep:serde_core"]
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 46d34836..3b5841f5 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ v.sort();
 
 ## Feature List
 
-- `allocator-api2` (default enabled, nightly if disabled): uses the `allocator-api2` backend for the allocator API, otherwise it uses unstable alloc traits
+- `allocator-api` (nightly): uses the `allocator-api` backend for the allocator API
+- `allocator-api2`: uses the `allocator-api2` backend for the allocator API
 - `arbitrary`: implements `Arbitrary` for any `SmallVec` storing elements that implement `Arbitrary`
 - `borsh`: implements `BorshSerialize`, `BorshDeserialize` and `BorshSchema`
 - `bytes`: implements `BufMut` for SmallVec
@@ -54,7 +55,6 @@ v.sort();
 - `encase`: implements encasing as a runtime-sized array
 - `internals`: exports through the public API `TaggedLen` and `RawSmallVec`
 - `malloc_size_of`: implements `MallocSizeOf` and `MallocShallowSizeOf`
-- `may_dangle` (nightly): enables the eyepatch optimization for dropping
 - `rayon`: implements parallel iteration
 - `serde`: implements serde's serialization and deserialization
 - `specialization` (nightly): enables specialization, improving performance on some cases
@@ -62,5 +62,5 @@ v.sort();
 
 > [!NOTE]
 > - SmallVec without any features enabled does not make use of the standard library.
-> 
-> - The `rayon` feature implicitly requires `std`.
\ No newline at end of file
+> - The `rayon` feature implicitly requires `std`.
+> - The `allocator-api2` feature requires `allocator-api`
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/allocator/base.rs b/src/allocator/base.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..76ec54e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/allocator/base.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+use {
+    super::Allocator,
+    alloc::alloc::{
+        alloc,
+        dealloc,
+        realloc
+    },
+    core::{
+        alloc::Layout,
+        ptr::NonNull
+    }
+};
+
+#[derive(Clone)]
+pub struct Global;
+
+impl Allocator for Global {
+    #[inline]
+    fn allocate(&self, layout: Layout) -> Option<NonNull<[u8]>> {
+        Some(NonNull::slice_from_raw_parts(
+            NonNull::new(unsafe { alloc(layout) })?,
+            layout.size()
+        ))
+    }
+
+    #[inline]
+    unsafe fn deallocate(&self, pointer: NonNull<u8>, layout: Layout) {
+        unsafe { dealloc(pointer.as_ptr(), layout) };
+    }
+
+    #[inline]
+    unsafe fn grow(&self, pointer: NonNull<u8>, old: Layout, new: Layout) -> Option<NonNull<[u8]>> {
+        Some(NonNull::slice_from_raw_parts(
+            NonNull::new(unsafe { realloc(pointer.as_ptr(), old, new.size()) })?,
+            new.size()
+        ))
+    }
+
+    #[inline]
+    unsafe fn shrink(
+        &self,
+        pointer: NonNull<u8>,
+        old: Layout,
+        new: Layout
+    ) -> Option<NonNull<[u8]>> {
+        Some(NonNull::slice_from_raw_parts(
+            NonNull::new(unsafe { realloc(pointer.as_ptr(), old, new.size()) })?,
+            new.size()
+        ))
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/allocator/external.rs b/src/allocator/external.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..635a8697
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/allocator/external.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+use {
+    super::Allocator,
+    allocator_api2::alloc::Allocator as External,
+    core::{
+        alloc::Layout,
+        ptr::NonNull
+    }
+};
+
+impl<Type: External> Allocator for Type {
+    #[inline]
+    fn allocate(&self, layout: Layout) -> Option<NonNull<[u8]>> {
+        External::allocate(&self, layout).ok()
+    }
+
+    #[inline]
+    unsafe fn deallocate(&self, pointer: NonNull<u8>, layout: Layout) {
+        unsafe { External::deallocate(&self, pointer, layout) }
+    }
+
+    #[inline]
+    unsafe fn grow(&self, pointer: NonNull<u8>, old: Layout, new: Layout) -> Option<NonNull<[u8]>> {
+        unsafe { External::grow(&self, pointer, old, new).ok() }
+    }
+
+    #[inline]
+    unsafe fn shrink(
+        &self,
+        pointer: NonNull<u8>,
+        old: Layout,
+        new: Layout
+    ) -> Option<NonNull<[u8]>> {
+        unsafe { External::shrink(&self, pointer, old, new).ok() }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/allocator/mod.rs b/src/allocator/mod.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2e212219
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/allocator/mod.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+#[cfg(not(feature = "allocator-api"))]
+mod base;
+#[cfg(feature = "allocator-api2")]
+mod external;
+#[cfg(all(feature = "allocator-api", not(feature = "allocator-api2")))]
+mod native;
+
+use core::{
+    alloc::Layout,
+    ptr::NonNull
+};
+
+#[cfg(not(feature = "allocator-api"))]
+#[rustfmt::skip]
+pub use {
+    alloc::{
+        boxed::Box,
+        vec::Vec,
+        vec
+    },
+    base::Global
+};
+#[cfg(feature = "allocator-api2")]
+#[rustfmt::skip]
+pub use allocator_api2::{
+    alloc::Global,
+    boxed::Box,
+    vec::Vec,
+    vec
+};
+#[cfg(all(feature = "allocator-api", not(feature = "allocator-api2")))]
+#[rustfmt::skip]
+pub use alloc::{
+    alloc::Global,
+    boxed::Box,
+    vec::Vec,
+    vec
+};
+
+pub trait Allocator {
+    fn allocate(&self, layout: Layout) -> Option<NonNull<[u8]>>;
+    unsafe fn deallocate(&self, pointer: NonNull<u8>, layout: Layout);
+    unsafe fn grow(&self, pointer: NonNull<u8>, old: Layout, new: Layout) -> Option<NonNull<[u8]>>;
+    unsafe fn shrink(
+        &self,
+        pointer: NonNull<u8>,
+        old: Layout,
+        new: Layout
+    ) -> Option<NonNull<[u8]>>;
+}
diff --git a/src/allocator/native.rs b/src/allocator/native.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..77603616
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/allocator/native.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+use {
+    super::Allocator,
+    alloc::alloc::Allocator as Native,
+    core::{
+        alloc::Layout,
+        ptr::NonNull
+    }
+};
+
+impl<Type: Native> Allocator for Type {
+    #[inline]
+    fn allocate(&self, layout: Layout) -> Option<NonNull<[u8]>> {
+        Native::allocate(&self, layout).ok()
+    }
+
+    #[inline]
+    unsafe fn deallocate(&self, pointer: NonNull<u8>, layout: Layout) {
+        unsafe { Native::deallocate(&self, pointer, layout) }
+    }
+
+    #[inline]
+    unsafe fn grow(&self, pointer: NonNull<u8>, old: Layout, new: Layout) -> Option<NonNull<[u8]>> {
+        unsafe { Native::grow(&self, pointer, old, new).ok() }
+    }
+
+    #[inline]
+    unsafe fn shrink(
+        &self,
+        pointer: NonNull<u8>,
+        old: Layout,
+        new: Layout
+    ) -> Option<NonNull<[u8]>> {
+        unsafe { Native::shrink(&self, pointer, old, new).ok() }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/conversions.rs b/src/conversions.rs
index 3e5bded8..335c8e9a 100644
--- a/src/conversions.rs
+++ b/src/conversions.rs
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 use {
     crate::{
         Allocator,
-        SmallVec
+        SmallVec,
+        Vec
     },
-    alloc::vec::Vec,
     core::{
         mem::ManuallyDrop,
         ptr::copy_nonoverlapping
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 5434d44f..56f8731c 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -9,10 +9,14 @@
 #![cfg_attr(docsrs, feature(doc_cfg))]
 #![cfg_attr(feature = "specialization", allow(incomplete_features))]
 #![cfg_attr(feature = "specialization", feature(specialization, trusted_len))]
-#![cfg_attr(not(feature = "allocator-api2"), feature(allocator_api))]
+#![cfg_attr(
+    all(feature = "allocator-api", not(feature = "allocator-api2")),
+    feature(allocator_api)
+)]
 
 extern crate alloc;
 
+mod allocator;
 #[cfg(feature = "borsh")]
 mod borsh;
 mod comparisons;
@@ -34,16 +38,6 @@ mod serde;
 mod specialization;
 mod taggedlen;
 
-#[cfg(not(feature = "allocator-api2"))]
-use alloc::alloc::{
-    Allocator,
-    Global
-};
-#[cfg(feature = "allocator-api2")]
-use allocator_api2::alloc::{
-    Allocator,
-    Global
-};
 #[cfg(feature = "bytes")]
 use bytes::{
     BufMut,
@@ -59,9 +53,12 @@ pub use errors::SmallVecError;
 #[cfg(feature = "std")]
 use std::io;
 use {
-    alloc::{
-        boxed::Box,
-        vec::Vec
+    allocator::{
+        Allocator,
+        Box,
+        Global,
+        Vec,
+        vec
     },
     core::{
         alloc::Layout,
@@ -1786,7 +1783,7 @@ impl<T, const N: usize, A: Allocator> Drop for IntoIter<T, N, A> {
 pub fn from_elem<T: Clone, const N: usize>(elem: T, n: usize) -> SmallVec<T, N> {
     if n > SmallVec::<T, N>::inline_size() {
         // Standard Rust vectors are already specialized.
-        SmallVec::from_vec(alloc::vec![elem; n])
+        SmallVec::from_vec(vec![elem; n])
     } else {
         #[cfg(feature = "specialization")]
         {
diff --git a/src/rawsmallvec.rs b/src/rawsmallvec.rs
index ace0e6ad..f5722b3b 100644
--- a/src/rawsmallvec.rs
+++ b/src/rawsmallvec.rs
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ impl<T, const N: usize> RawSmallVec<T, N> {
             // `new_layout` has nonzero size.
             let new_ptr = allocator
                 .allocate(new_layout)
-                .map_err(|_| SmallVecError::AllocationError(new_layout))?
+                .ok_or(SmallVecError::AllocationError(new_layout))?
                 .cast();
             unsafe { copy_nonoverlapping(ptr, new_ptr.as_ptr(), len) };
             new_ptr
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ impl<T, const N: usize> RawSmallVec<T, N> {
                     new_layout
                 )
             }
-            .map_err(|_| SmallVecError::AllocationError(new_layout))?
+            .ok_or(SmallVecError::AllocationError(new_layout))?
             .cast()
         };
         self.heap = (new_ptr, new_capacity);
diff --git a/tests/main.rs b/tests/main.rs
index 6c11a3e3..2707c0a6 100644
--- a/tests/main.rs
+++ b/tests/main.rs
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+#[cfg(feature = "allocator-api2")]
+use allocator_api2::{
+    boxed::Box,
+    vec::Vec
+};
+#[cfg(not(feature = "allocator-api2"))]
+use std::{
+    boxed::Box,
+    vec::Vec
+};
 use {
     core::{
         borrow::{
@@ -14,10 +24,8 @@ use {
     smallvec::SmallVec,
     std::{
         borrow::ToOwned,
-        boxed::Box,
         hash::DefaultHasher,
-        rc::Rc,
-        vec::Vec
+        rc::Rc
     }
 };