diff --git a/vllm/inputs/preprocess.py b/vllm/inputs/preprocess.py
index 4d8f28cb04175..53f89996f0fe9 100644
--- a/vllm/inputs/preprocess.py
+++ b/vllm/inputs/preprocess.py
@@ -260,8 +260,6 @@ def _process_multimodal(
         mm_processor = self.mm_registry.create_processor(
             self.model_config, tokenizer)
 
-        if isinstance(prompt, list):
-            prompt = tokenizer.decode(prompt)
         if mm_processor_kwargs is None:
             mm_processor_kwargs = {}