diff --git a/litellm/proxy/proxy_server.py b/litellm/proxy/proxy_server.py
index 5d89d3fa9c..879914e5ac 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/proxy_server.py
+++ b/litellm/proxy/proxy_server.py
@@ -6917,6 +6917,15 @@ async def async_data_generator(  # noqa: PLR0915
 
             if isinstance(chunk, BaseModel):
                 chunk = _serialize_streaming_chunk(chunk)
+            elif isinstance(chunk, bytes):
+                # Some upstream streaming iterators (e.g. AsyncGoogleGenAIGenerateContentStreamingIterator
+                # for /v1beta/.../streamGenerateContent) yield raw SSE bytes from Gemini.
+                # Decode to str so the f-string below does not emit a Python b'...' literal,
+                # and pass already-formatted SSE through unchanged to avoid double "data:" prefix.
+                chunk = chunk.decode("utf-8", errors="replace")
+                if chunk.startswith(("data:", "event:", ":")):
+                    yield chunk if chunk.endswith("\n\n") else chunk + "\n\n"
+                    continue
             elif isinstance(chunk, str) and chunk.startswith("data: "):
                 error_message = chunk
                 break
diff --git a/tests/test_litellm/proxy/test_proxy_server.py b/tests/test_litellm/proxy/test_proxy_server.py
index 73d5363162..6d10d2a635 100644
--- a/tests/test_litellm/proxy/test_proxy_server.py
+++ b/tests/test_litellm/proxy/test_proxy_server.py
@@ -5065,6 +5065,66 @@ async def test_async_data_generator_uses_direct_stream_fast_path_without_callbac
     mock_response.aclose.assert_awaited_once()
 
 
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_async_data_generator_passes_through_google_native_sse_bytes():
+    """
+    Google-native streamGenerateContent yields raw SSE bytes; they must not be
+    re-wrapped as data: b'data: {...}'.
+    """
+    from litellm.proxy._types import UserAPIKeyAuth
+    from litellm.proxy.proxy_server import async_data_generator
+    from litellm.proxy.utils import ProxyLogging
+
+    mock_user_api_key_dict = MagicMock(spec=UserAPIKeyAuth)
+    mock_request_data = {
+        "model": "gemini-2.0-flash",
+        "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "test"}],
+    }
+    gemini_event = b'data: {"candidates": [{"content": "hi"}]}\n\n'
+    gemini_event_without_terminator = b'data: {"candidates": [{"content": "there"}]}'
+    raw_payload = b'{"partial": true}'
+
+    class MockStream:
+        def __aiter__(self):
+            return self._stream()
+
+        async def _stream(self):
+            yield gemini_event
+            yield gemini_event_without_terminator
+            yield raw_payload
+
+        async def aclose(self):
+            pass
+
+    mock_response = MockStream()
+    mock_response.aclose = AsyncMock()
+    mock_proxy_logging_obj = MagicMock(spec=ProxyLogging)
+    mock_proxy_logging_obj.has_streaming_callbacks.return_value = False
+    mock_proxy_logging_obj.needs_iterator_wrap.return_value = False
+    mock_proxy_logging_obj.needs_per_chunk_streaming_hook.return_value = False
+    mock_proxy_logging_obj.async_post_call_streaming_iterator_hook = MagicMock()
+    mock_proxy_logging_obj.async_post_call_streaming_hook = AsyncMock()
+    mock_proxy_logging_obj.post_call_failure_hook = AsyncMock()
+
+    with patch("litellm.proxy.proxy_server.proxy_logging_obj", mock_proxy_logging_obj):
+        with patch.object(ProxyLogging, "_fire_deferred_stream_logging"):
+            yielded_data = []
+            async for data in async_data_generator(
+                mock_response, mock_user_api_key_dict, mock_request_data
+            ):
+                yielded_data.append(data)
+
+    yielded_text = [
+        chunk.decode("utf-8") if isinstance(chunk, bytes) else chunk
+        for chunk in yielded_data
+    ]
+    assert yielded_text[0] == gemini_event.decode("utf-8")
+    assert yielded_text[1] == gemini_event_without_terminator.decode("utf-8") + "\n\n"
+    assert yielded_text[2] == f'data: {raw_payload.decode("utf-8")}\n\n'
+    assert "b'data:" not in "".join(yielded_text)
+    assert yielded_text[-1] == "data: [DONE]\n\n"
+
+
 @pytest.mark.asyncio
 async def test_async_data_generator_cleanup_on_normal_completion():
     """