diff --git a/vllm/engine/llm_engine.py b/vllm/engine/llm_engine.py
index 38a20a418e21..e0f57e0b450c 100644
--- a/vllm/engine/llm_engine.py
+++ b/vllm/engine/llm_engine.py
@@ -2021,7 +2021,7 @@ def _validate_model_input(
         if not prompt_ids:
             if prompt_type == "encoder" and model_config.is_multimodal_model:
                 pass  # Mllama may have empty encoder inputs for text-only data
-            if prompt_inputs["type"] == "embeds":
+            elif prompt_inputs["type"] == "embeds":
                 pass
             else:
                 raise ValueError(f"The {prompt_type} prompt cannot be empty")