diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 51e3212852..2694a70f4d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/).
 - [#3929](https://github.com/plotly/dash/issues/3929) Fix components that set their own initial state on mount (eg. `dash-bootstrap-components` `Tabs`, which selects its default active tab) not applying that state on first render - a component's descendant layout hashes were reset on its very first fresh render, discarding the mount-time update before it took effect. The reset now only runs from the second fresh render onward, so a component's initial state survives (regression introduced in 4.2.0 by [#3570](https://github.com/plotly/dash/pull/3570)).
 - [#3948](https://github.com/plotly/dash/issues/3948) Fix page getting progressively slower as callbacks append children
 
+### Changed
+- [#3986](https://github.com/plotly/dash/pull/3986) Adjusted the `_run_before_hooks` inf `fastapi` backend to allow for a return value in the event that a `before_request` function returns a response. This is more aligned with how the `before_request` hooks work in the `flask` backend.
+
 ## [4.4.1] - 2026-07-21
 
 ## Fixed
diff --git a/dash/backends/_fastapi.py b/dash/backends/_fastapi.py
index e617d5f20b..daec8fbc8c 100644
--- a/dash/backends/_fastapi.py
+++ b/dash/backends/_fastapi.py
@@ -163,9 +163,11 @@ async def _run_before_hooks(self) -> None:
         """Run all before-request hooks."""
         for func in self.before_request_funcs:
             if inspect.iscoroutinefunction(func):
-                await func()
+                result = await func()
             else:
-                func()
+                result = func()
+            if result is not None:
+                return result
 
     async def _run_after_hooks(self) -> None:
         """Run after-request hook if configured."""