diff --git a/litellm/router_strategy/provider_budgets.py b/litellm/router_strategy/provider_budgets.py
index 6ccbe78d6..37a6e72c2 100644
--- a/litellm/router_strategy/provider_budgets.py
+++ b/litellm/router_strategy/provider_budgets.py
@@ -51,10 +51,12 @@ class ProviderBudgetLimiting(CustomLogger):
                 raise ValueError(
                     f"No budget config found for provider {provider}, provider_budget_config: {provider_budget_config}"
                 )
-            provider_budget_config[provider] = ProviderBudgetInfo(
-                budget_limit=config.get("budget_limit"),
-                time_period=config.get("time_period"),
-            )
+
+            if not isinstance(config, ProviderBudgetInfo):
+                provider_budget_config[provider] = ProviderBudgetInfo(
+                    budget_limit=config.get("budget_limit"),
+                    time_period=config.get("time_period"),
+                )
 
         self.provider_budget_config: ProviderBudgetConfigType = provider_budget_config
         verbose_router_logger.debug(
diff --git a/tests/local_testing/test_provider_budgets.py b/tests/local_testing/test_provider_budgets.py
index 5e685cae6..7d1cc4fd6 100644
--- a/tests/local_testing/test_provider_budgets.py
+++ b/tests/local_testing/test_provider_budgets.py
@@ -93,8 +93,14 @@ async def test_provider_budgets_e2e_test_expect_to_fail():
     - first request passes, all subsequent requests fail
 
     """
-    provider_budget_config: ProviderBudgetConfigType = {
-        "anthropic": ProviderBudgetInfo(time_period="1d", budget_limit=0.000000000001),
+
+    # Note: We intentionally use a dictionary with string keys for budget_limit and time_period
+    # we want to test that the router can handle type conversion, since the proxy config yaml passes these values as a dictionary
+    provider_budget_config = {
+        "anthropic": {
+            "budget_limit": 0.000000000001,
+            "time_period": "1d",
+        }
     }
 
     router = Router(