diff --git a/integrations/qdrant/src/haystack_integrations/components/retrievers/qdrant/retriever.py b/integrations/qdrant/src/haystack_integrations/components/retrievers/qdrant/retriever.py
index c8c9be44a..5663f5b0b 100644
--- a/integrations/qdrant/src/haystack_integrations/components/retrievers/qdrant/retriever.py
+++ b/integrations/qdrant/src/haystack_integrations/components/retrievers/qdrant/retriever.py
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ def __init__(
         document_store: QdrantDocumentStore,
         filters: Optional[Union[Dict[str, Any], models.Filter]] = None,
         top_k: int = 10,
-        scale_score: bool = True,
+        scale_score: bool = False,
         return_embedding: bool = False,
     ):
         """
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ def __init__(
         document_store: QdrantDocumentStore,
         filters: Optional[Union[Dict[str, Any], models.Filter]] = None,
         top_k: int = 10,
-        scale_score: bool = True,
+        scale_score: bool = False,
         return_embedding: bool = False,
     ):
         """
diff --git a/integrations/qdrant/src/haystack_integrations/document_stores/qdrant/document_store.py b/integrations/qdrant/src/haystack_integrations/document_stores/qdrant/document_store.py
index 0236f00c3..910667db0 100644
--- a/integrations/qdrant/src/haystack_integrations/document_stores/qdrant/document_store.py
+++ b/integrations/qdrant/src/haystack_integrations/document_stores/qdrant/document_store.py
@@ -496,7 +496,7 @@ def _query_by_sparse(
         query_sparse_embedding: SparseEmbedding,
         filters: Optional[Union[Dict[str, Any], rest.Filter]] = None,
         top_k: int = 10,
-        scale_score: bool = True,
+        scale_score: bool = False,
         return_embedding: bool = False,
     ) -> List[Document]:
         """
@@ -553,7 +553,7 @@ def _query_by_embedding(
         query_embedding: List[float],
         filters: Optional[Union[Dict[str, Any], rest.Filter]] = None,
         top_k: int = 10,
-        scale_score: bool = True,
+        scale_score: bool = False,
         return_embedding: bool = False,
     ) -> List[Document]:
         """
diff --git a/integrations/qdrant/tests/test_retriever.py b/integrations/qdrant/tests/test_retriever.py
index 3bfb9e62e..7edf0d6d7 100644
--- a/integrations/qdrant/tests/test_retriever.py
+++ b/integrations/qdrant/tests/test_retriever.py
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ def test_to_dict(self):
                 },
                 "filters": None,
                 "top_k": 10,
-                "scale_score": True,
+                "scale_score": False,
                 "return_embedding": False,
             },
         }
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ def test_to_dict(self):
                 },
                 "filters": None,
                 "top_k": 10,
-                "scale_score": True,
+                "scale_score": False,
                 "return_embedding": False,
             },
         }