diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 919300e143c1e..cc3037ebb72cb 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -60,7 +60,8 @@ MAIN_CUDA_VERSION = "12.8"
 
 
 def is_sccache_available() -> bool:
-    return which("sccache") is not None
+    return which("sccache") is not None and \
+        not bool(int(os.getenv("VLLM_DISABLE_SCCACHE", "0")))
 
 
 def is_ccache_available() -> bool: