diff --git a/llama_stack/providers/remote/inference/passthrough/passthrough.py b/llama_stack/providers/remote/inference/passthrough/passthrough.py
index aa8a87bf7..8f3a0d147 100644
--- a/llama_stack/providers/remote/inference/passthrough/passthrough.py
+++ b/llama_stack/providers/remote/inference/passthrough/passthrough.py
@@ -4,12 +4,14 @@
 # This source code is licensed under the terms described in the LICENSE file in
 # the root directory of this source tree.
 
-from typing import AsyncGenerator, List, Optional
+from typing import Any, AsyncGenerator, Dict, List, Optional
 
-from llama_stack_client import LlamaStackClient
+from llama_stack_client import AsyncLlamaStackClient
 
 from llama_stack.apis.common.content_types import InterleavedContent
 from llama_stack.apis.inference import (
+    ChatCompletionResponse,
+    ChatCompletionResponseStreamChunk,
     EmbeddingsResponse,
     EmbeddingTaskType,
     Inference,
@@ -24,6 +26,7 @@ from llama_stack.apis.inference import (
     ToolPromptFormat,
 )
 from llama_stack.apis.models import Model
+from llama_stack.distribution.library_client import convert_pydantic_to_json_value, convert_to_pydantic
 from llama_stack.providers.utils.inference.model_registry import ModelRegistryHelper
 
 from .config import PassthroughImplConfig
@@ -46,7 +49,7 @@ class PassthroughInferenceAdapter(Inference):
     async def register_model(self, model: Model) -> Model:
         return model
 
-    def _get_client(self) -> LlamaStackClient:
+    def _get_client(self) -> AsyncLlamaStackClient:
         passthrough_url = None
         passthrough_api_key = None
         provider_data = None
@@ -71,7 +74,7 @@ class PassthroughInferenceAdapter(Inference):
                 )
             passthrough_api_key = provider_data.passthrough_api_key
 
-        return LlamaStackClient(
+        return AsyncLlamaStackClient(
             base_url=passthrough_url,
             api_key=passthrough_api_key,
             provider_data=provider_data,
@@ -91,7 +94,7 @@ class PassthroughInferenceAdapter(Inference):
         client = self._get_client()
         model = await self.model_store.get_model(model_id)
 
-        params = {
+        request_params = {
             "model_id": model.provider_resource_id,
             "content": content,
             "sampling_params": sampling_params,
@@ -100,10 +103,13 @@ class PassthroughInferenceAdapter(Inference):
             "logprobs": logprobs,
         }
 
-        params = {key: value for key, value in params.items() if value is not None}
+        request_params = {key: value for key, value in request_params.items() if value is not None}
+
+        # cast everything to json dict
+        json_params = self.cast_value_to_json_dict(request_params)
 
         # only pass through the not None params
-        return client.inference.completion(**params)
+        return await client.inference.completion(**json_params)
 
     async def chat_completion(
         self,
@@ -120,10 +126,14 @@ class PassthroughInferenceAdapter(Inference):
     ) -> AsyncGenerator:
         if sampling_params is None:
             sampling_params = SamplingParams()
-        client = self._get_client()
         model = await self.model_store.get_model(model_id)
 
-        params = {
+        # TODO: revisit this remove tool_calls from messages logic
+        for message in messages:
+            if hasattr(message, "tool_calls"):
+                message.tool_calls = None
+
+        request_params = {
             "model_id": model.provider_resource_id,
             "messages": messages,
             "sampling_params": sampling_params,
@@ -135,10 +145,39 @@ class PassthroughInferenceAdapter(Inference):
             "logprobs": logprobs,
         }
 
-        params = {key: value for key, value in params.items() if value is not None}
-
         # only pass through the not None params
-        return client.inference.chat_completion(**params)
+        request_params = {key: value for key, value in request_params.items() if value is not None}
+
+        # cast everything to json dict
+        json_params = self.cast_value_to_json_dict(request_params)
+
+        if stream:
+            return self._stream_chat_completion(json_params)
+        else:
+            return await self._nonstream_chat_completion(json_params)
+
+    async def _nonstream_chat_completion(self, json_params: Dict[str, Any]) -> ChatCompletionResponse:
+        client = self._get_client()
+        response = await client.inference.chat_completion(**json_params)
+
+        response = response.to_dict()
+
+        # temporary hack to remove the metrics from the response
+        response["metrics"] = []
+
+        return convert_to_pydantic(ChatCompletionResponse, response)
+
+    async def _stream_chat_completion(self, json_params: Dict[str, Any]) -> AsyncGenerator:
+        client = self._get_client()
+        stream_response = await client.inference.chat_completion(**json_params)
+
+        async for chunk in stream_response:
+            chunk = chunk.to_dict()
+
+            # temporary hack to remove the metrics from the response
+            chunk["metrics"] = []
+            chunk = convert_to_pydantic(ChatCompletionResponseStreamChunk, chunk)
+            yield chunk
 
     async def embeddings(
         self,
@@ -151,10 +190,29 @@ class PassthroughInferenceAdapter(Inference):
         client = self._get_client()
         model = await self.model_store.get_model(model_id)
 
-        return client.inference.embeddings(
+        return await client.inference.embeddings(
             model_id=model.provider_resource_id,
             contents=contents,
             text_truncation=text_truncation,
             output_dimension=output_dimension,
             task_type=task_type,
         )
+
+    def cast_value_to_json_dict(self, request_params: Dict[str, Any]) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+        json_params = {}
+        for key, value in request_params.items():
+            json_input = convert_pydantic_to_json_value(value)
+            if isinstance(json_input, dict):
+                json_input = {k: v for k, v in json_input.items() if v is not None}
+            elif isinstance(json_input, list):
+                json_input = [x for x in json_input if x is not None]
+                new_input = []
+                for x in json_input:
+                    if isinstance(x, dict):
+                        x = {k: v for k, v in x.items() if v is not None}
+                    new_input.append(x)
+                json_input = new_input
+
+            json_params[key] = json_input
+
+        return json_params