diff --git a/libs/community/langchain_community/retrievers/qdrant_sparse_vector_retriever.py b/libs/community/langchain_community/retrievers/qdrant_sparse_vector_retriever.py
index f5ceab2766c..3226a3b6899 100644
--- a/libs/community/langchain_community/retrievers/qdrant_sparse_vector_retriever.py
+++ b/libs/community/langchain_community/retrievers/qdrant_sparse_vector_retriever.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ from typing import (
     cast,
 )
 
+from langchain_core._api.deprecation import deprecated
 from langchain_core.callbacks import CallbackManagerForRetrieverRun
 from langchain_core.documents import Document
 from langchain_core.retrievers import BaseRetriever
@@ -21,6 +22,16 @@ from langchain_core.utils import pre_init
 from langchain_community.vectorstores.qdrant import Qdrant, QdrantException
 
 
+@deprecated(
+    since="0.2.16",
+    alternative=(
+        "Qdrant vector store now supports sparse retrievals natively. "
+        "Use langchain_qdrant.QdrantVectorStore#as_retriever() instead. "
+        "Reference: "
+        "https://python.langchain.com/v0.2/docs/integrations/vectorstores/qdrant/#sparse-vector-search"
+    ),
+    removal="0.5.0",
+)
 class QdrantSparseVectorRetriever(BaseRetriever):
     """Qdrant sparse vector retriever."""
 
diff --git a/libs/langchain/langchain/retrievers/self_query/base.py b/libs/langchain/langchain/retrievers/self_query/base.py
index 3ff9d8302c1..0b89db472c1 100644
--- a/libs/langchain/langchain/retrievers/self_query/base.py
+++ b/libs/langchain/langchain/retrievers/self_query/base.py
@@ -117,8 +117,6 @@ def _get_builtin_translator(vectorstore: VectorStore) -> Visitor:
     }
     if isinstance(vectorstore, DatabricksVectorSearch):
         return DatabricksVectorSearchTranslator()
-    if isinstance(vectorstore, Qdrant):
-        return QdrantTranslator(metadata_key=vectorstore.metadata_payload_key)
     elif isinstance(vectorstore, MyScale):
         return MyScaleTranslator(metadata_key=vectorstore.metadata_column)
     elif isinstance(vectorstore, Redis):
@@ -180,6 +178,14 @@ def _get_builtin_translator(vectorstore: VectorStore) -> Visitor:
             if isinstance(vectorstore, PGVector):
                 return NewPGVectorTranslator()
 
+        try:
+            from langchain_qdrant import QdrantVectorStore
+        except ImportError:
+            pass
+        else:
+            if isinstance(vectorstore, QdrantVectorStore):
+                return QdrantTranslator(metadata_key=vectorstore.metadata_payload_key)
+
         try:
             # Added in langchain-community==0.2.11
             from langchain_community.query_constructors.hanavector import HanaTranslator