diff --git a/changelogs/current.yaml b/changelogs/current.yaml
index 9ecf0d6e48ce..52c3d23c048b 100644
--- a/changelogs/current.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/current.yaml
@@ -13,5 +13,10 @@ removed_config_or_runtime:
 # *Normally occurs at the end of the* :ref:`deprecation period <deprecated>`
 
 new_features:
+- area: grpc reverse bridge
+  change: |
+    Change HTTP status to 200 to respect the gRPC protocol. This may cause problems for incorrect gRPC clients expecting the filter
+    to preserve HTTP 1.1 responses.  This behavioral change can be temporarily reverted by setting runtime guard
+    ``envoy.reloadable_features.grpc_http1_reverse_bridge_change_http_status`` to false.
 
 deprecated:
diff --git a/source/common/runtime/runtime_features.cc b/source/common/runtime/runtime_features.cc
index 3990f2a06e27..febb801fd8d5 100644
--- a/source/common/runtime/runtime_features.cc
+++ b/source/common/runtime/runtime_features.cc
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ RUNTIME_GUARD(envoy_reloadable_features_enable_connect_udp_support);
 RUNTIME_GUARD(envoy_reloadable_features_enable_intermediate_ca);
 RUNTIME_GUARD(envoy_reloadable_features_enable_zone_routing_different_zone_counts);
 RUNTIME_GUARD(envoy_reloadable_features_ext_authz_http_send_original_xff);
+RUNTIME_GUARD(envoy_reloadable_features_grpc_http1_reverse_bridge_change_http_status);
 RUNTIME_GUARD(envoy_reloadable_features_grpc_http1_reverse_bridge_handle_empty_response);
 RUNTIME_GUARD(envoy_reloadable_features_handle_uppercase_scheme);
 RUNTIME_GUARD(envoy_reloadable_features_hmac_base64_encoding_only);
diff --git a/source/extensions/filters/http/grpc_http1_reverse_bridge/filter.cc b/source/extensions/filters/http/grpc_http1_reverse_bridge/filter.cc
index f59cdd457508..d8a4f6758839 100644
--- a/source/extensions/filters/http/grpc_http1_reverse_bridge/filter.cc
+++ b/source/extensions/filters/http/grpc_http1_reverse_bridge/filter.cc
@@ -181,6 +181,12 @@ Http::FilterHeadersStatus Filter::encodeHeaders(Http::ResponseHeaderMap& headers
     // until then.
     grpc_status_ = grpcStatusFromHeaders(headers);
 
+    // gRPC clients expect that the HTTP status will always be 200.
+    if (Runtime::runtimeFeatureEnabled(
+            "envoy.reloadable_features.grpc_http1_reverse_bridge_change_http_status")) {
+      headers.setStatus(enumToInt(Http::Code::OK));
+    }
+
     if (Runtime::runtimeFeatureEnabled(
             "envoy.reloadable_features.grpc_http1_reverse_bridge_handle_empty_response")) {
       // This is a header-only response, and we should prepend the gRPC frame
diff --git a/test/extensions/filters/http/grpc_http1_reverse_bridge/reverse_bridge_test.cc b/test/extensions/filters/http/grpc_http1_reverse_bridge/reverse_bridge_test.cc
index b8bbd517e458..8c6609dbf17f 100644
--- a/test/extensions/filters/http/grpc_http1_reverse_bridge/reverse_bridge_test.cc
+++ b/test/extensions/filters/http/grpc_http1_reverse_bridge/reverse_bridge_test.cc
@@ -481,6 +481,7 @@ TEST_F(ReverseBridgeTest, GrpcRequestInternalError) {
       {{":status", "400"}, {"content-type", "application/x-protobuf"}});
   EXPECT_EQ(Http::FilterHeadersStatus::Continue, filter_->encodeHeaders(headers, false));
   EXPECT_THAT(headers, HeaderValueOf(Http::Headers::get().ContentType, "application/grpc"));
+  EXPECT_THAT(headers, HeaderValueOf(Http::Headers::get().Status, "200"));
 
   {
     // First few calls should drain the buffer