diff --git a/vllm/reasoning/deepseek_v3_reasoning_parser.py b/vllm/reasoning/deepseek_v3_reasoning_parser.py
index 6604f70badbcf..4e6758586bf42 100644
--- a/vllm/reasoning/deepseek_v3_reasoning_parser.py
+++ b/vllm/reasoning/deepseek_v3_reasoning_parser.py
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ class DeepSeekV3ReasoningParser(ReasoningParser):
 
         chat_kwargs = kwargs.pop("chat_template_kwargs", {}) or {}
         thinking = bool(chat_kwargs.pop("thinking", False))
+        enable_thinking = bool(chat_kwargs.pop("enable_thinking", False))
+        thinking = thinking or enable_thinking
 
         if thinking:
             self._parser = DeepSeekR1ReasoningParser(tokenizer, *args, **kwargs)
diff --git a/vllm/tokenizers/deepseek_v32.py b/vllm/tokenizers/deepseek_v32.py
index bf279a5cf67c5..d519b61ddb76d 100644
--- a/vllm/tokenizers/deepseek_v32.py
+++ b/vllm/tokenizers/deepseek_v32.py
@@ -50,6 +50,8 @@ class DeepseekV32Tokenizer(CachedHfTokenizer):
         **kwargs,
     ) -> str | list[int]:
         thinking = kwargs.get("thinking", False)
+        enable_thinking = kwargs.get("enable_thinking", False)
+        thinking = thinking or enable_thinking
         thinking_mode = "thinking"
         if not thinking:
             thinking_mode = "chat"