diff --git a/airbyte_cdk/sources/declarative/decoders/composite_raw_decoder.py b/airbyte_cdk/sources/declarative/decoders/composite_raw_decoder.py
index 99b2de3d2..0561369a7 100644
--- a/airbyte_cdk/sources/declarative/decoders/composite_raw_decoder.py
+++ b/airbyte_cdk/sources/declarative/decoders/composite_raw_decoder.py
@@ -149,7 +149,9 @@ def parse(self, data: BufferedIOBase) -> PARSER_OUTPUT_TYPE:
         # ijson auto-selects the best available backend (yajl2_c when present)
         # and reads from `data` lazily — it does not call `.read()` on the
         # whole stream up front.
-        yield from ijson.items(data, f"{self.items_path}.item")
+        # use_float=True yields floats for non-integer numbers instead of Decimal, matching
+        # json.loads/orjson behavior so downstream JSON serialization doesn't choke on Decimal.
+        yield from ijson.items(data, f"{self.items_path}.item", use_float=True)
 
 
 @dataclass
diff --git a/unit_tests/sources/declarative/decoders/test_composite_decoder.py b/unit_tests/sources/declarative/decoders/test_composite_decoder.py
index ec1a621b1..8af9a4b4c 100644
--- a/unit_tests/sources/declarative/decoders/test_composite_decoder.py
+++ b/unit_tests/sources/declarative/decoders/test_composite_decoder.py
@@ -451,6 +451,24 @@ def test_json_items_parser_composes_with_gzip(requests_mock) -> None:
     assert list(decoder.decode(response)) == payload["dataByAsin"]
 
 
+def test_json_items_parser_yields_floats_not_decimals(requests_mock) -> None:
+    """Non-integer numbers must be parsed as float (not Decimal) so downstream JSON
+    serialization (orjson) does not fail on Decimal values."""
+    import orjson
+
+    payload = {"data": [{"ratio": 0.5, "rank": 3, "amount": 0.0000}]}
+    requests_mock.register_uri(
+        "GET", "https://airbyte.io/", content=json.dumps(payload).encode("utf-8")
+    )
+    response = requests.get("https://airbyte.io/", stream=True)
+
+    records = list(CompositeRawDecoder(parser=JsonItemsParser(items_path="data")).decode(response))
+    assert isinstance(records[0]["ratio"], float)
+    assert isinstance(records[0]["rank"], int)
+    # Must be serializable by orjson (which rejects Decimal).
+    orjson.dumps(records[0])
+
+
 def test_json_items_parser_requires_items_path() -> None:
     parser = JsonItemsParser()
     with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="items_path"):