diff --git a/tests/entrypoints/scale_out/derender/test_derender.py b/tests/entrypoints/scale_out/derender/test_derender.py
index 8bcf8c6d34..5a2e329708 100644
--- a/tests/entrypoints/scale_out/derender/test_derender.py
+++ b/tests/entrypoints/scale_out/derender/test_derender.py
@@ -12,8 +12,10 @@ import pytest_asyncio
 from tests.utils import RemoteLaunchRenderServer
 from vllm.entrypoints.generate.base.protocol import FunctionCall
 from vllm.entrypoints.openai.chat_completion.protocol import ChatCompletionRequest
+from vllm.entrypoints.openai.completion.protocol import CompletionRequest
 from vllm.entrypoints.scale_out.token_in_token_out.protocol import (
     GenerateTokensResponse,
+    GenerateTokensStreamResponse,
 )
 from vllm.renderers.online_derenderer import OnlineDerenderer
 from vllm.tokenizers import get_tokenizer
@@ -1579,3 +1581,43 @@ def test_derender_chat_keeps_parser_tool_call_id():
 
     (tool_call,) = choice.message.tool_calls
     assert tool_call.id == "functions.get_weather:1"
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("return_token_ids", [None, False, True])
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("stream", [False, True])
+async def test_derender_completion_preserves_requested_token_ids(
+    tokenizer, return_token_ids, stream
+):
+    renderer = MagicMock()
+    renderer.get_tokenizer.return_value = tokenizer
+    renderer._executor = None
+    model_config = MagicMock()
+    model_config.model = MODEL_NAME
+    model_config.hf_config.model_type = "llama"
+    derenderer = OnlineDerenderer(
+        model_config,
+        renderer,
+        request_logger=None,
+        chat_template=None,
+        chat_template_content_format="string",
+    )
+    token_ids = tokenizer.encode("Hello world", add_special_tokens=False)
+    request = CompletionRequest(
+        model=MODEL_NAME, prompt="Hi", return_token_ids=return_token_ids
+    )
+    payload = _make_generate_response(token_ids, finish_reason="length")
+    if stream:
+        response, _ = await derenderer.derender_completion_stream(
+            MODEL_NAME,
+            GenerateTokensStreamResponse.model_validate(payload),
+            completion_request=request,
+        )
+        choices = response.choices
+    else:
+        choices, _, _ = await derenderer.derender_completion(
+            [GenerateTokensResponse.model_validate(payload)],
+            completion_request=request,
+        )
+    assert choices[0].text == tokenizer.decode(token_ids)
+    assert choices[0].token_ids == (token_ids if return_token_ids else None)
diff --git a/vllm/renderers/online_derenderer.py b/vllm/renderers/online_derenderer.py
index f0169d1dba..753dc6084b 100644
--- a/vllm/renderers/online_derenderer.py
+++ b/vllm/renderers/online_derenderer.py
@@ -834,6 +834,9 @@ class OnlineDerenderer:
         total_completion_tokens = 0
         index = 0
         top_limit = _completion_top_logprobs_limit(completion_request)
+        return_token_ids = (
+            completion_request is not None and completion_request.return_token_ids
+        )
 
         for gen, pt, seed_ids_override in zip(
             generate_responses, prompt_tokens_list, prompt_token_ids_list
@@ -877,6 +880,7 @@ class OnlineDerenderer:
                         finish_reason=choice.finish_reason,
                         stop_reason=choice.stop_reason,
                         logprobs=completion_logprobs,
+                        token_ids=choice.token_ids if return_token_ids else None,
                     )
                 )
                 total_completion_tokens += len(choice.token_ids)
@@ -942,6 +946,9 @@ class OnlineDerenderer:
         updated_state = state
 
         top_limit = _completion_top_logprobs_limit(completion_request)
+        return_token_ids = (
+            completion_request is not None and completion_request.return_token_ids
+        )
         for choice in generate_chunk.choices:
             delta_tids = choice.token_ids or []
             new_text, updated_state = await self._detokenize_delta_async(
@@ -982,6 +989,7 @@ class OnlineDerenderer:
                     logprobs=completion_logprobs,
                     finish_reason=choice.finish_reason,
                     stop_reason=choice.stop_reason,
+                    token_ids=choice.token_ids if return_token_ids else None,
                 )
             )