diff --git a/tests/entrypoints/openai/test_chat_error.py b/tests/entrypoints/openai/test_chat_error.py
index b194e9b74d874..1f30d8cf1e8cc 100644
--- a/tests/entrypoints/openai/test_chat_error.py
+++ b/tests/entrypoints/openai/test_chat_error.py
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ def _build_serving_chat(engine: AsyncLLM) -> OpenAIServingChat:
         lora_request,
         trace_headers,
         priority,
+        data_parallel_rank,
     ):
         return dict(engine_prompt), {}
 
diff --git a/tests/entrypoints/openai/test_completion_error.py b/tests/entrypoints/openai/test_completion_error.py
index ca56cc2ddb6a7..6643aa471321b 100644
--- a/tests/entrypoints/openai/test_completion_error.py
+++ b/tests/entrypoints/openai/test_completion_error.py
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ def _build_serving_completion(engine: AsyncLLM) -> OpenAIServingCompletion:
         lora_request,
         trace_headers,
         priority,
+        data_parallel_rank,
     ):
         return dict(engine_prompt), {}
 
diff --git a/tests/entrypoints/openai/test_serving_chat.py b/tests/entrypoints/openai/test_serving_chat.py
index 2befa40d636da..69d7b1ceedf59 100644
--- a/tests/entrypoints/openai/test_serving_chat.py
+++ b/tests/entrypoints/openai/test_serving_chat.py
@@ -396,6 +396,7 @@ def _build_serving_chat(engine: AsyncLLM) -> OpenAIServingChat:
         lora_request,
         trace_headers,
         priority,
+        data_parallel_rank,
     ):
         return dict(engine_prompt), {}
 
diff --git a/tests/v1/engine/test_async_llm.py b/tests/v1/engine/test_async_llm.py
index 25af55baa91f4..224e5d741024b 100644
--- a/tests/v1/engine/test_async_llm.py
+++ b/tests/v1/engine/test_async_llm.py
@@ -11,6 +11,13 @@ from vllm import SamplingParams
 from vllm.assets.image import ImageAsset
 from vllm.config import VllmConfig
 from vllm.engine.arg_utils import AsyncEngineArgs
+from vllm.entrypoints.openai.protocol import (
+    ChatCompletionRequest,
+    ChatCompletionResponse,
+    ErrorResponse,
+)
+from vllm.entrypoints.openai.serving_chat import OpenAIServingChat
+from vllm.entrypoints.openai.serving_models import BaseModelPath, OpenAIServingModels
 from vllm.inputs import PromptType
 from vllm.outputs import RequestOutput
 from vllm.platforms import current_platform
@@ -484,6 +491,60 @@ async def test_dp_rank_argument():
                 pass
 
 
+@pytest.mark.asyncio(scope="module")
+async def test_header_dp_rank_argument():
+    with ExitStack() as after:
+        with set_default_torch_num_threads(1):
+            engine = AsyncLLM.from_engine_args(TEXT_ENGINE_ARGS)
+        after.callback(engine.shutdown)
+
+        MODEL_NAME = "test-model"
+        BASE_MODEL_PATHS = [BaseModelPath(name=MODEL_NAME, model_path=MODEL_NAME)]
+
+        # Create models first
+        models = OpenAIServingModels(
+            engine_client=engine,
+            base_model_paths=BASE_MODEL_PATHS,
+        )
+
+        # Create serving chat instance
+        serving_chat = OpenAIServingChat(
+            engine_client=engine,
+            models=models,
+            response_role="assistant",
+            chat_template=None,
+            chat_template_content_format="auto",
+            request_logger=None,
+        )
+        # Create a chat completion request
+        req = ChatCompletionRequest(
+            model=MODEL_NAME,
+            messages=[{"role": "user", "content": TEXT_PROMPT}],
+            max_tokens=100,
+            temperature=1.0,
+            seed=33,
+        )
+        # Test 1: Valid DP rank (0)
+        mock_raw_request = MagicMock()
+        mock_raw_request.headers = {"X-data-parallel-rank": "0"}
+        mock_raw_request.state = MagicMock()
+
+        # Should succeed with valid rank
+        response = await serving_chat.create_chat_completion(req, mock_raw_request)
+        assert isinstance(response, ChatCompletionResponse), (
+            "Expected a ChatCompletionResponse for valid DP rank"
+        )
+
+        # Test 2: Out-of-range DP rank (1)
+        mock_raw_request.headers = {"X-data-parallel-rank": "1"}
+
+        # should return ErrorResponse for out-of-range rank
+        response2 = await serving_chat.create_chat_completion(req, mock_raw_request)
+        assert isinstance(response2, ErrorResponse), (
+            "Expected an ErrorResponse for out-of-range DP rank"
+        )
+
+
 @pytest.mark.asyncio
 async def test_check_health():
     """Test that check_health returns normally for healthy engine
diff --git a/vllm/entrypoints/openai/serving_chat.py b/vllm/entrypoints/openai/serving_chat.py
index 95df373502bfd..04967cbe268dd 100644
--- a/vllm/entrypoints/openai/serving_chat.py
+++ b/vllm/entrypoints/openai/serving_chat.py
@@ -381,6 +381,7 @@ class OpenAIServingChat(OpenAIServing):
                         lora_request=lora_request,
                         trace_headers=trace_headers,
                         priority=request.priority,
+                        data_parallel_rank=data_parallel_rank,
                     )
 
                     generator = self.engine_client.generate(
diff --git a/vllm/entrypoints/openai/serving_completion.py b/vllm/entrypoints/openai/serving_completion.py
index 1be0afc8c74e5..265ca9915e5db 100644
--- a/vllm/entrypoints/openai/serving_completion.py
+++ b/vllm/entrypoints/openai/serving_completion.py
@@ -230,6 +230,7 @@ class OpenAIServingCompletion(OpenAIServing):
                         lora_request=lora_request,
                         trace_headers=trace_headers,
                         priority=request.priority,
+                        data_parallel_rank=data_parallel_rank,
                     )
 
                     generator = self.engine_client.generate(
diff --git a/vllm/entrypoints/openai/serving_engine.py b/vllm/entrypoints/openai/serving_engine.py
index 5f7cfaa53ec18..b9771963c6d4c 100644
--- a/vllm/entrypoints/openai/serving_engine.py
+++ b/vllm/entrypoints/openai/serving_engine.py
@@ -1231,6 +1231,7 @@ class OpenAIServing:
         lora_request: LoRARequest | None,
         trace_headers: Mapping[str, str] | None,
         priority: int,
+        data_parallel_rank: int | None = None,
     ) -> tuple[EngineCoreRequest, dict[str, Any]]:
         """Use the Processor to process inputs for AsyncLLM."""
         tokenization_kwargs: dict[str, Any] = {}
@@ -1246,6 +1247,7 @@ class OpenAIServing:
             tokenization_kwargs=tokenization_kwargs,
             trace_headers=trace_headers,
             priority=priority,
+            data_parallel_rank=data_parallel_rank,
         )
         return engine_request, tokenization_kwargs