diff --git a/litellm/integrations/otel/logger.py b/litellm/integrations/otel/logger.py
index 6cfdf7ba80a..7e03fd91ec6 100644
--- a/litellm/integrations/otel/logger.py
+++ b/litellm/integrations/otel/logger.py
@@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ class OpenTelemetryV2(CustomLogger):
                 # it (named provisionally) so it isn't leaked as an open span.
                 carrier.span.end(end_time=to_ns(end_time))
             return None
-        if carrier is None and call.is_no_upstream_call:
+        if carrier is None and (call.is_no_upstream_call or call_id is None):
             return None
         data = LLMCallSpanData.from_standard_logging_payload(
             payload,
diff --git a/tests/test_litellm/integrations/otel/test_otel_v2_logger.py b/tests/test_litellm/integrations/otel/test_otel_v2_logger.py
index 7dbf599e6cf..774fc136259 100644
--- a/tests/test_litellm/integrations/otel/test_otel_v2_logger.py
+++ b/tests/test_litellm/integrations/otel/test_otel_v2_logger.py
@@ -284,7 +284,8 @@ def test_sync_log_event_is_noop():
 
 
 def test_missing_standard_logging_object_is_noop():
-    """No carrier (``pre_call`` never ran) → the callback emits nothing."""
+    """With no standard_logging_object (no payload) and no carrier, there is
+    nothing to record, so the callback emits nothing."""
     logger, exporter = _logger()
     asyncio.run(
         logger.async_log_success_event({"litellm_params": {}}, None, None, None)
@@ -327,6 +328,18 @@ def test_dynamic_callback_emits_deferred_span_without_pre_call():
     assert span.status.status_code is StatusCode.UNSET
 
 
+def test_no_carrier_without_call_id_does_not_double_emit():
+    """The deferred path is deduped by popping the carrier keyed on the call id.
+    Without a call id there is nothing to dedup on, so both the success and failure
+    hooks would each emit a span for the same event; a call with no ``litellm_call_id``
+    must therefore produce no deferred span rather than a duplicated one."""
+    logger, exporter = _logger()
+    kwargs = _kwargs(_payload(litellm_call_id=None))
+    asyncio.run(logger.async_log_success_event(kwargs, None, None, None))
+    asyncio.run(logger.async_log_failure_event(kwargs, None, None, None))
+    assert exporter.get_finished_spans() == ()
+
+
 def test_real_llm_failure_still_emitted():
     """A genuine LLM failure: ``pre_call`` ran (the call was attempted), so the
     CLIENT span is opened at the boundary and closed ERROR."""