diff --git a/vllm/renderers/__init__.py b/vllm/renderers/__init__.py
index 58d9ed70a..db186e1f0 100644
--- a/vllm/renderers/__init__.py
+++ b/vllm/renderers/__init__.py
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
 
+from .base import BaseRenderer
 from .params import ChatParams, TokenizeParams, merge_kwargs
-from .protocol import BaseRenderer
 from .registry import RendererRegistry, renderer_from_config
 
 __all__ = [
diff --git a/vllm/renderers/protocol.py b/vllm/renderers/base.py
similarity index 100%
rename from vllm/renderers/protocol.py
rename to vllm/renderers/base.py
diff --git a/vllm/renderers/deepseek_v32.py b/vllm/renderers/deepseek_v32.py
index d10a596b2..e4cc3f0fb 100644
--- a/vllm/renderers/deepseek_v32.py
+++ b/vllm/renderers/deepseek_v32.py
@@ -14,10 +14,10 @@ from vllm.tokenizers import cached_get_tokenizer
 from vllm.tokenizers.deepseek_v32 import DeepseekV32Tokenizer
 
 from ..tokenizers.hf import HfTokenizer
+from .base import BaseRenderer
 from .inputs import DictPrompt
 from .inputs.preprocess import parse_dec_only_prompt
 from .params import ChatParams
-from .protocol import BaseRenderer
 
 logger = init_logger(__name__)
 
diff --git a/vllm/renderers/grok2.py b/vllm/renderers/grok2.py
index c5c3afe86..141c72aa7 100644
--- a/vllm/renderers/grok2.py
+++ b/vllm/renderers/grok2.py
@@ -13,10 +13,10 @@ from vllm.logger import init_logger
 from vllm.tokenizers import cached_get_tokenizer
 from vllm.tokenizers.grok2 import Grok2Tokenizer
 
+from .base import BaseRenderer
 from .inputs import DictPrompt
 from .inputs.preprocess import parse_dec_only_prompt
 from .params import ChatParams
-from .protocol import BaseRenderer
 
 logger = init_logger(__name__)
 
diff --git a/vllm/renderers/hf.py b/vllm/renderers/hf.py
index 5425bd888..83b17e961 100644
--- a/vllm/renderers/hf.py
+++ b/vllm/renderers/hf.py
@@ -32,10 +32,10 @@ from vllm.transformers_utils.chat_templates import get_chat_template_fallback_pa
 from vllm.transformers_utils.processor import cached_get_processor
 from vllm.utils.func_utils import supports_kw
 
+from .base import BaseRenderer
 from .inputs import DictPrompt
 from .inputs.preprocess import parse_dec_only_prompt
 from .params import ChatParams
-from .protocol import BaseRenderer
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from vllm.multimodal.inputs import MultiModalDataDict, MultiModalUUIDDict
diff --git a/vllm/renderers/mistral.py b/vllm/renderers/mistral.py
index 0d15b37e0..3d3141bdc 100644
--- a/vllm/renderers/mistral.py
+++ b/vllm/renderers/mistral.py
@@ -15,10 +15,10 @@ from vllm.tokenizers import cached_get_tokenizer
 from vllm.tokenizers.mistral import MistralTokenizer
 from vllm.utils.async_utils import make_async
 
+from .base import BaseRenderer
 from .inputs import DictPrompt
 from .inputs.preprocess import parse_dec_only_prompt
 from .params import ChatParams
-from .protocol import BaseRenderer
 
 logger = init_logger(__name__)
 
diff --git a/vllm/renderers/registry.py b/vllm/renderers/registry.py
index dde17a6f9..3abc7c9fe 100644
--- a/vllm/renderers/registry.py
+++ b/vllm/renderers/registry.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ from vllm.logger import init_logger
 from vllm.tokenizers.registry import tokenizer_args_from_config
 from vllm.utils.import_utils import resolve_obj_by_qualname
 
-from .protocol import BaseRenderer
+from .base import BaseRenderer
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from vllm.config import ModelConfig
diff --git a/vllm/renderers/terratorch.py b/vllm/renderers/terratorch.py
index 58c1459d2..2d00ebccb 100644
--- a/vllm/renderers/terratorch.py
+++ b/vllm/renderers/terratorch.py
@@ -12,10 +12,10 @@ from vllm.entrypoints.chat_utils import (
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
 from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 
+from .base import BaseRenderer
 from .inputs import DictPrompt
 from .inputs.preprocess import parse_dec_only_prompt
 from .params import ChatParams
-from .protocol import BaseRenderer
 
 logger = init_logger(__name__)