diff --git a/litellm/utils.py b/litellm/utils.py
index 06347564324..029498024f6 100644
--- a/litellm/utils.py
+++ b/litellm/utils.py
@@ -2079,7 +2079,8 @@ def client(original_function):
                 else kwargs
             )
             try:
-                await logging_obj.async_pre_call()
+                if litellm._async_input_callback:
+                    await logging_obj.async_pre_call()
                 result = await original_function(*args, **call_kwargs)
             except Exception as deployment_error:
                 _deployment_call_end_time = datetime.datetime.now()  # noqa: DTZ005  # matches the naive datetimes this whole function already times start_time/end_time with
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_utils.py b/tests/unit/test_utils.py
index b0c617ddb2e..0011cd82dd0 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test_utils.py
+++ b/tests/unit/test_utils.py
@@ -5298,6 +5298,8 @@ async def test_wrapper_async_awaits_async_input_callback_before_the_provider_cal
     def sync_callback(kwargs: dict) -> None:
         events.append(("sync", kwargs["log_event_type"]))
 
+    monkeypatch.setattr("litellm.litellm_core_utils.litellm_logging.customLogger", CustomLogger())
+
     if registration == "manager":
         litellm.logging_callback_manager.add_litellm_input_callback(async_callback)
     else:
@@ -5344,6 +5346,8 @@ async def test_wrapper_async_skips_async_input_callback_on_cache_hit(
     def sync_callback(kwargs: dict) -> None:
         events.append("sync")
 
+    monkeypatch.setattr("litellm.litellm_core_utils.litellm_logging.customLogger", CustomLogger())
+
     monkeypatch.setattr(litellm, "_async_input_callback", [async_callback])
     monkeypatch.setattr(litellm, "input_callback", [sync_callback])
     monkeypatch.setattr(litellm, "cache", Cache(type="local"))