diff --git a/docs/features/tool_calling.md b/docs/features/tool_calling.md
index 37d502ef9c..afc605a504 100644
--- a/docs/features/tool_calling.md
+++ b/docs/features/tool_calling.md
@@ -284,6 +284,14 @@ Supported models:
 
 Flags: `--tool-call-parser deepseek_v3 --chat-template {see_above}`
 
+### DeepSeek-V3.1 Models (`deepseek_v31`)
+
+Supported models:
+
+* `deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.1` (use with <gh-file:examples/tool_chat_template_deepseekv31.jinja>)
+
+Flags: `--tool-call-parser deepseek_v31 --chat-template {see_above}`
+
 ### Kimi-K2 Models (`kimi_k2`)
 
 Supported models:
diff --git a/examples/tool_chat_template_deepseekv31.jinja b/examples/tool_chat_template_deepseekv31.jinja
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..863be69d60
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/tool_chat_template_deepseekv31.jinja
@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+{% if not add_generation_prompt is defined %}
+  {% set add_generation_prompt = false %}
+{% endif %}
+{% if not thinking is defined %}
+  {% set thinking = false %}
+{% endif %}
+{% set ns = namespace(is_first=false, is_tool=false, system_prompt='', is_first_sp=true, is_last_user=false) %}
+{%- for message in messages %}
+  {%- if message['role'] == 'system' %}
+    {%- if ns.is_first_sp %}
+      {% set ns.system_prompt = ns.system_prompt + message['content'] %}
+      {% set ns.is_first_sp = false %}
+    {%- else %}
+      {% set ns.system_prompt = ns.system_prompt + '\n\n' + message['content'] %}
+    {%- endif %}
+  {%- endif %}
+{%- endfor %}
+
+{% if tools is defined and tools is not none %}
+  {% set tool_ns = namespace(text='## Tools\nYou have access to the following tools:\n') %}
+  {% for tool in tools %}
+    {% set tool_ns.text = tool_ns.text + '\n### ' + tool.function.name + '\nDescription: ' + tool.function.description + '\n\nParameters: ' + (tool.function.parameters | tojson) + '\n' %}
+  {% endfor %}
+  {% set tool_ns.text = tool_ns.text + "\nIMPORTANT: ALWAYS adhere to this exact format for tool use:\n<｜tool▁calls▁begin｜><｜tool▁call▁begin｜>tool_call_name<｜tool▁sep｜>tool_call_arguments<｜tool▁call▁end｜>{{additional_tool_calls}}<｜tool▁calls▁end｜>\n\nWhere:\n\n- `tool_call_name` must be an exact match to one of the available tools\n- `tool_call_arguments` must be valid JSON that strictly follows the tool's Parameters Schema\n- For multiple tool calls, chain them directly without separators or spaces\n" %}
+  {% set ns.system_prompt = ns.system_prompt + '\n\n' + tool_ns.text %}
+{% endif %}
+
+{{ bos_token }}{{ ns.system_prompt }}
+{%- for message in messages %}
+  {%- if message['role'] == 'user' %}
+    {%- set ns.is_tool = false -%}
+    {%- set ns.is_first = false -%}
+    {%- set ns.is_last_user = true -%}
+    {{'<｜User｜>' + message['content']}}
+  {%- endif %}
+  {%- if message['role'] == 'assistant' and message['tool_calls'] is defined and message['tool_calls'] is not none %}
+    {%- if ns.is_last_user %}
+      {{'<｜Assistant｜></think>'}}
+    {%- endif %}
+    {%- set ns.is_last_user = false -%}
+    {%- set ns.is_first = false %}
+    {%- set ns.is_tool = false -%}
+    {%- for tool in message['tool_calls'] %}
+      {%- if not ns.is_first %}
+        {%- if message['content'] is none %}
+          {{'<｜tool▁calls▁begin｜><｜tool▁call▁begin｜>'+ tool['function']['name'] + '<｜tool▁sep｜>' + tool['function']['arguments']|tojson + '<｜tool▁call▁end｜>'}}
+        {%- else %}
+          {{message['content'] + '<｜tool▁calls▁begin｜><｜tool▁call▁begin｜>' + tool['function']['name'] + '<｜tool▁sep｜>' + tool['function']['arguments']|tojson + '<｜tool▁call▁end｜>'}}
+        {%- endif %}
+        {%- set ns.is_first = true -%}
+      {%- else %}
+        {{'<｜tool▁call▁begin｜>'+ tool['function']['name'] + '<｜tool▁sep｜>' + tool['function']['arguments']|tojson + '<｜tool▁call▁end｜>'}}
+      {%- endif %}
+    {%- endfor %}
+    {{'<｜tool▁calls▁end｜><｜end▁of▁sentence｜>'}}
+  {%- endif %}
+  {%- if message['role'] == 'assistant' and (message['tool_calls'] is not defined or message['tool_calls'] is none) %}
+    {%- if ns.is_last_user %}
+      {{'<｜Assistant｜>'}}
+      {%- if message['prefix'] is defined and message['prefix'] and thinking %}
+        {{'<think>'}}  
+      {%- else %}
+        {{'</think>'}}
+      {%- endif %}
+    {%- endif %}
+    {%- set ns.is_last_user = false -%}
+    {%- if ns.is_tool %}
+      {{message['content'] + '<｜end▁of▁sentence｜>'}}
+      {%- set ns.is_tool = false -%}
+    {%- else %}
+      {%- set content = message['content'] -%}
+      {%- if '</think>' in content %}
+        {%- set content = content.split('</think>', 1)[1] -%}
+      {%- endif %}
+      {{content + '<｜end▁of▁sentence｜>'}}
+    {%- endif %}
+  {%- endif %}
+  {%- if message['role'] == 'tool' %}
+    {%- set ns.is_last_user = false -%}
+    {%- set ns.is_tool = true -%}
+    {{'<｜tool▁output▁begin｜>' + message['content'] + '<｜tool▁output▁end｜>'}}
+  {%- endif %}
+{%- endfor -%}
+{%- if add_generation_prompt and ns.is_last_user and not ns.is_tool %}
+  {{'<｜Assistant｜>'}}
+  {%- if not thinking %}
+    {{'</think>'}}
+  {%- else %}
+    {{'<think>'}}
+  {%- endif %}
+{% endif %}
diff --git a/vllm/entrypoints/openai/tool_parsers/__init__.py b/vllm/entrypoints/openai/tool_parsers/__init__.py
index 468c3799bd..44aa1208a5 100644
--- a/vllm/entrypoints/openai/tool_parsers/__init__.py
+++ b/vllm/entrypoints/openai/tool_parsers/__init__.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 
 from .abstract_tool_parser import ToolParser, ToolParserManager
 from .deepseekv3_tool_parser import DeepSeekV3ToolParser
+from .deepseekv31_tool_parser import DeepSeekV31ToolParser
 from .glm4_moe_tool_parser import Glm4MoeModelToolParser
 from .granite_20b_fc_tool_parser import Granite20bFCToolParser
 from .granite_tool_parser import GraniteToolParser
@@ -36,6 +37,7 @@ __all__ = [
     "PythonicToolParser",
     "Phi4MiniJsonToolParser",
     "DeepSeekV3ToolParser",
+    "DeepSeekV31ToolParser",
     "xLAMToolParser",
     "MinimaxToolParser",
     "KimiK2ToolParser",
diff --git a/vllm/entrypoints/openai/tool_parsers/deepseekv31_tool_parser.py b/vllm/entrypoints/openai/tool_parsers/deepseekv31_tool_parser.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2656db9c62
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vllm/entrypoints/openai/tool_parsers/deepseekv31_tool_parser.py
@@ -0,0 +1,367 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+
+from collections.abc import Sequence
+from typing import Union
+
+import regex as re
+
+from vllm.entrypoints.chat_utils import make_tool_call_id
+from vllm.entrypoints.openai.protocol import (ChatCompletionRequest,
+                                              DeltaFunctionCall, DeltaMessage,
+                                              DeltaToolCall,
+                                              ExtractedToolCallInformation,
+                                              FunctionCall, ToolCall)
+from vllm.entrypoints.openai.tool_parsers.abstract_tool_parser import (
+    ToolParser, ToolParserManager)
+from vllm.logger import init_logger
+from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+
+logger = init_logger(__name__)
+
+
+@ToolParserManager.register_module("deepseek_v31")
+class DeepSeekV31ToolParser(ToolParser):
+
+    def __init__(self, tokenizer: AnyTokenizer):
+        super().__init__(tokenizer)
+
+        self.current_tool_name_sent: bool = False
+        self.prev_tool_call_arr: list[dict] = []
+        self.current_tool_id: int = -1
+        self.streamed_args_for_tool: list[str] = (
+            [])  # map what has been streamed for each tool so far to a list
+
+        self.tool_calls_start_token: str = "<｜tool▁calls▁begin｜>"
+        self.tool_calls_end_token: str = "<｜tool▁calls▁end｜>"
+
+        self.tool_call_start_token: str = "<｜tool▁call▁begin｜>"
+        self.tool_call_end_token: str = "<｜tool▁call▁end｜>"
+
+        self.tool_call_regex = re.compile(
+            r"<｜tool▁call▁begin｜>(?P<function_name>.*)<｜tool▁sep｜>(?P<function_arguments>.*)<｜tool▁call▁end｜>"
+        )
+
+        self.stream_tool_call_portion_regex = re.compile(
+            r"(?P<function_name>.*)<｜tool▁sep｜>(?P<function_arguments>.*)")
+
+        self.stream_tool_call_name_regex = re.compile(
+            r"(?P<function_name>.*)<｜tool▁sep｜>")
+
+        if not self.model_tokenizer:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "The model tokenizer must be passed to the ToolParser "
+                "constructor during construction.")
+        self.tool_calls_start_token_id = self.vocab.get(
+            self.tool_calls_start_token)
+        self.tool_calls_end_token_id = self.vocab.get(
+            self.tool_calls_end_token)
+
+        self.tool_call_start_token_id = self.vocab.get(
+            self.tool_call_start_token)
+        self.tool_call_end_token_id = self.vocab.get(self.tool_call_end_token)
+
+        if (self.tool_calls_start_token_id is None
+                or self.tool_calls_end_token_id is None):
+            raise RuntimeError(
+                "DeepSeek-V3 Tool parser could not locate tool call start/end "
+                "tokens in the tokenizer!")
+
+    def extract_tool_calls(
+        self,
+        model_output: str,
+        request: ChatCompletionRequest,
+    ) -> ExtractedToolCallInformation:
+
+        # sanity check; avoid unnecessary processing
+        if self.tool_calls_start_token not in model_output:
+            return ExtractedToolCallInformation(tools_called=False,
+                                                tool_calls=[],
+                                                content=model_output)
+
+        else:
+            try:
+                # there are two possible captures - between tags, or between a
+                # tag and end-of-string so the result of
+                # findall is an array of tuples where one is a function call and
+                # the other is None
+                function_call_tuples = self.tool_call_regex.findall(
+                    model_output)
+
+                tool_calls = []
+                for match in function_call_tuples:
+                    function_name, function_args = match
+                    tool_calls.append(
+                        ToolCall(
+                            type="function",
+                            function=FunctionCall(name=function_name,
+                                                  arguments=function_args),
+                        ))
+
+                content = model_output[:model_output.
+                                       find(self.tool_calls_start_token)]
+                return ExtractedToolCallInformation(
+                    tools_called=True,
+                    tool_calls=tool_calls,
+                    content=content if content else None,
+                )
+
+            except Exception:
+                logger.exception(
+                    "Error in extracting tool call from response.")
+                return ExtractedToolCallInformation(tools_called=False,
+                                                    tool_calls=[],
+                                                    content=model_output)
+
+    def extract_tool_calls_streaming(
+        self,
+        previous_text: str,
+        current_text: str,
+        delta_text: str,
+        previous_token_ids: Sequence[int],
+        current_token_ids: Sequence[int],
+        delta_token_ids: Sequence[int],
+        request: ChatCompletionRequest,
+    ) -> Union[DeltaMessage, None]:
+
+        logger.debug("delta_text: %s", delta_text)
+        logger.debug("delta_token_ids: %s", delta_token_ids)
+        # check to see if we should be streaming a tool call - is there a
+        if self.tool_calls_start_token_id not in current_token_ids:
+            logger.debug("No tool call tokens found!")
+            return DeltaMessage(content=delta_text)
+        delta_text = delta_text.replace(self.tool_calls_start_token,
+                                        "").replace(self.tool_calls_end_token,
+                                                    "")
+        try:
+
+            # figure out where we are in the parsing by counting tool call
+            # start & end tags
+            prev_tool_start_count = previous_token_ids.count(
+                self.tool_call_start_token_id)
+            prev_tool_end_count = previous_token_ids.count(
+                self.tool_call_end_token_id)
+            cur_tool_start_count = current_token_ids.count(
+                self.tool_call_start_token_id)
+            cur_tool_end_count = current_token_ids.count(
+                self.tool_call_end_token_id)
+            tool_call_portion = None
+            text_portion = None
+
+            # case: if we're generating text, OR rounding out a tool call
+            if (cur_tool_start_count == cur_tool_end_count
+                    and prev_tool_end_count == cur_tool_end_count
+                    and self.tool_call_end_token not in delta_text):
+                logger.debug("Generating text content! skipping tool parsing.")
+                return DeltaMessage(content=delta_text)
+
+            if self.tool_call_end_token in delta_text:
+                logger.debug("tool_call_end_token in delta_text")
+                full_text = current_text + delta_text
+                tool_call_portion = full_text.split(
+                    self.tool_call_start_token)[-1].split(
+                        self.tool_call_end_token)[0].rstrip()
+                delta_text = delta_text.split(
+                    self.tool_call_end_token)[0].rstrip()
+                text_portion = delta_text.split(
+                    self.tool_call_end_token)[-1].lstrip()
+
+            # case -- we're starting a new tool call
+            if (cur_tool_start_count > cur_tool_end_count
+                    and cur_tool_start_count > prev_tool_start_count):
+                if len(delta_token_ids) > 1:
+                    tool_call_portion = current_text.split(
+                        self.tool_call_start_token)[-1]
+                else:
+                    tool_call_portion = None
+                    delta = None
+
+                text_portion = None
+
+                # set cursors and state appropriately
+                self.current_tool_id += 1
+                self.current_tool_name_sent = False
+                self.streamed_args_for_tool.append("")
+                logger.debug("Starting on a new tool %s", self.current_tool_id)
+
+            # case -- we're updating an existing tool call
+            elif (cur_tool_start_count > cur_tool_end_count
+                  and cur_tool_start_count == prev_tool_start_count):
+
+                # get the portion of the text that's the tool call
+                tool_call_portion = current_text.split(
+                    self.tool_call_start_token)[-1]
+                text_portion = None
+
+            # case -- the current tool call is being closed.
+            elif (cur_tool_start_count == cur_tool_end_count
+                  and cur_tool_end_count >= prev_tool_end_count):
+                if self.prev_tool_call_arr is None or len(
+                        self.prev_tool_call_arr) == 0:
+                    logger.debug(
+                        "attempting to close tool call, but no tool call")
+                    return None
+                diff = self.prev_tool_call_arr[self.current_tool_id].get(
+                    "arguments")
+                if diff:
+                    diff = (diff.encode("utf-8").decode("unicode_escape")
+                            if diff is str else diff)
+                    if '"}' not in delta_text:
+                        return None
+                    end_loc = delta_text.rindex('"}')
+                    diff = delta_text[:end_loc] + '"}'
+                    logger.debug(
+                        "Finishing tool and found diff that had not "
+                        "been streamed yet: %s",
+                        diff,
+                    )
+                    self.streamed_args_for_tool[self.current_tool_id] += diff
+                    return DeltaMessage(tool_calls=[
+                        DeltaToolCall(
+                            index=self.current_tool_id,
+                            function=DeltaFunctionCall(
+                                arguments=diff).model_dump(exclude_none=True),
+                        )
+                    ])
+
+            # case -- otherwise we're just generating text
+            else:
+                text = delta_text.replace(self.tool_call_start_token, "")
+                text = text.replace(self.tool_call_end_token, "")
+                delta = DeltaMessage(tool_calls=[], content=text)
+                return delta
+
+            current_tool_call = dict()
+            if tool_call_portion:
+                current_tool_call_matches = (
+                    self.stream_tool_call_portion_regex.match(
+                        tool_call_portion))
+                if current_tool_call_matches:
+                    tool_name, tool_args = current_tool_call_matches.groups()
+                    current_tool_call["name"] = tool_name
+                    current_tool_call["arguments"] = tool_args
+                else:
+                    current_tool_call_name_matches = (
+                        self.stream_tool_call_name_regex.match(
+                            tool_call_portion))
+                    if current_tool_call_name_matches:
+                        tool_name = current_tool_call_name_matches.groups()
+                        current_tool_call["name"] = tool_name
+                        current_tool_call["arguments"] = ""
+                    else:
+                        logger.debug("Not enough token")
+                        return None
+
+            # case - we haven't sent the tool name yet. If it's available, send
+            #   it. otherwise, wait until it's available.
+            if not self.current_tool_name_sent:
+                if current_tool_call is None:
+                    return None
+                function_name: Union[str, None] = current_tool_call.get("name")
+                if function_name:
+                    self.current_tool_name_sent = True
+                    return DeltaMessage(tool_calls=[
+                        DeltaToolCall(
+                            index=self.current_tool_id,
+                            type="function",
+                            id=make_tool_call_id(),
+                            function=DeltaFunctionCall(
+                                name=function_name).model_dump(
+                                    exclude_none=True),
+                        )
+                    ])
+                else:
+                    return None
+
+            # case -- otherwise, send the tool call delta
+
+            # if the tool call portion is None, send the delta as text
+            if tool_call_portion is None:
+                # if there's text but not tool calls, send that -
+                # otherwise None to skip chunk
+                delta = (DeltaMessage(
+                    content=delta_text) if text_portion is not None else None)
+                return delta
+
+            # now, the nitty-gritty of tool calls
+            # now we have the portion to parse as tool call.
+
+            logger.debug("Trying to parse current tool call with ID %s",
+                         self.current_tool_id)
+
+            # if we're starting a new tool call, push an empty object in as
+            #   a placeholder for the arguments
+            if len(self.prev_tool_call_arr) <= self.current_tool_id:
+                self.prev_tool_call_arr.append({})
+
+            # main logic for tool parsing here - compare prev. partially-parsed
+            #   JSON to the current partially-parsed JSON
+            prev_arguments = self.prev_tool_call_arr[self.current_tool_id].get(
+                "arguments")
+            cur_arguments = current_tool_call.get("arguments")
+
+            logger.debug("diffing old arguments: %s", prev_arguments)
+            logger.debug("against new ones: %s", cur_arguments)
+
+            # case -- no arguments have been created yet. skip sending a delta.
+            if not cur_arguments and not prev_arguments:
+                logger.debug("Skipping text %s - no arguments", delta_text)
+                delta = None
+
+            # case -- prev arguments are defined, but non are now.
+            #   probably impossible, but not a fatal error - just keep going
+            elif not cur_arguments and prev_arguments:
+                logger.error("should be impossible to have arguments reset "
+                             "mid-call. skipping streaming anything.")
+                delta = None
+
+            # case -- we now have the first info about arguments available from
+            #   autocompleting the JSON
+            elif cur_arguments and not prev_arguments:
+
+                delta = DeltaMessage(tool_calls=[
+                    DeltaToolCall(
+                        index=self.current_tool_id,
+                        function=DeltaFunctionCall(
+                            arguments=cur_arguments).model_dump(
+                                exclude_none=True),
+                    )
+                ])
+                self.streamed_args_for_tool[
+                    self.current_tool_id] = cur_arguments
+
+            # last case -- we have an update to existing arguments.
+            elif cur_arguments and prev_arguments:
+                if (isinstance(delta_text, str)
+                        and cur_arguments != prev_arguments
+                        and len(cur_arguments) > len(prev_arguments)
+                        and cur_arguments.startswith(prev_arguments)):
+                    delta_arguments = cur_arguments[len(prev_arguments):]
+                    logger.debug("got diff %s", delta_text)
+
+                    delta = DeltaMessage(tool_calls=[
+                        DeltaToolCall(
+                            index=self.current_tool_id,
+                            function=DeltaFunctionCall(
+                                arguments=delta_arguments).model_dump(
+                                    exclude_none=True),
+                        )
+                    ])
+                    self.streamed_args_for_tool[
+                        self.current_tool_id] = cur_arguments
+                else:
+                    delta = None
+
+            # handle saving the state for the current tool into
+            # the "prev" list for use in diffing for the next iteration
+            if self.current_tool_id == len(self.prev_tool_call_arr) - 1:
+                self.prev_tool_call_arr[
+                    self.current_tool_id] = current_tool_call
+            else:
+                self.prev_tool_call_arr.append(current_tool_call)
+
+            return delta
+
+        except Exception:
+            logger.exception("Error trying to handle streaming tool call.")
+            return None  # do not stream a delta. skip this token ID.