diff --git a/litellm/router.py b/litellm/router.py
index 44c02f126..0e693e188 100644
--- a/litellm/router.py
+++ b/litellm/router.py
@@ -145,6 +145,7 @@ class Router:
         content_policy_fallbacks: List = [],
         model_group_alias: Optional[dict] = {},
         enable_pre_call_checks: bool = False,
+        enable_tag_filtering: bool = False,
         retry_after: int = 0,  # min time to wait before retrying a failed request
         retry_policy: Optional[
             RetryPolicy
@@ -246,6 +247,7 @@ class Router:
         self.set_verbose = set_verbose
         self.debug_level = debug_level
         self.enable_pre_call_checks = enable_pre_call_checks
+        self.enable_tag_filtering = enable_tag_filtering
         if self.set_verbose == True:
             if debug_level == "INFO":
                 verbose_router_logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)
@@ -4484,6 +4486,7 @@ class Router:
 
             # check if user wants to do tag based routing
             healthy_deployments = await get_deployments_for_tag(
+                llm_router_instance=self,
                 request_kwargs=request_kwargs,
                 healthy_deployments=healthy_deployments,
             )
diff --git a/litellm/router_strategy/tag_based_routing.py b/litellm/router_strategy/tag_based_routing.py
index 11bad19a3..2dbc5cb93 100644
--- a/litellm/router_strategy/tag_based_routing.py
+++ b/litellm/router_strategy/tag_based_routing.py
@@ -2,19 +2,30 @@
 Use this to route requests between free and paid tiers
 """
 
-from typing import Any, Dict, List, Literal, Optional, TypedDict, Union, cast
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Dict, List, Literal, Optional, TypedDict, Union
 
 from litellm._logging import verbose_logger
 from litellm.types.router import DeploymentTypedDict
 
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from litellm.router import Router as _Router
+
+    LitellmRouter = _Router
+else:
+    LitellmRouter = Any
+
 
 async def get_deployments_for_tag(
+    llm_router_instance: LitellmRouter,
     request_kwargs: Optional[Dict[Any, Any]] = None,
     healthy_deployments: Optional[Union[List[Any], Dict[Any, Any]]] = None,
 ):
     """
     if request_kwargs contains {"metadata": {"tier": "free"}} or {"metadata": {"tier": "paid"}}, then routes the request to free/paid tier models
     """
+    if llm_router_instance.enable_tag_filtering is not True:
+        return healthy_deployments
+
     if request_kwargs is None:
         verbose_logger.debug(
             "get_deployments_for_tier: request_kwargs is None returning healthy_deployments: %s",
diff --git a/litellm/tests/test_litellm_pre_call_utils.py b/litellm/tests/test_litellm_pre_call_utils.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 7f56d693d..000000000
--- a/litellm/tests/test_litellm_pre_call_utils.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,60 +0,0 @@
-"""
-Tests litellm pre_call_utils
-"""
-
-import os
-import sys
-import traceback
-import uuid
-from datetime import datetime
-
-from dotenv import load_dotenv
-from fastapi import Request
-from fastapi.routing import APIRoute
-
-from litellm.proxy._types import UserAPIKeyAuth
-from litellm.proxy.litellm_pre_call_utils import add_litellm_data_to_request
-from litellm.proxy.proxy_server import ProxyConfig, chat_completion
-
-load_dotenv()
-import io
-import os
-import time
-
-import pytest
-
-# this file is to test litellm/proxy
-
-sys.path.insert(
-    0, os.path.abspath("../..")
-)  # Adds the parent directory to the system path
-
-
-@pytest.mark.parametrize("tier", ["free", "paid"])
-@pytest.mark.asyncio()
-async def test_adding_key_tier_to_request_metadata(tier):
-    """
-    Tests if we can add tier: free/paid from key metadata to the request metadata
-    """
-    data = {}
-
-    api_route = APIRoute(path="/chat/completions", endpoint=chat_completion)
-    request = Request(
-        {
-            "type": "http",
-            "method": "POST",
-            "route": api_route,
-            "path": api_route.path,
-            "headers": [],
-        }
-    )
-    new_data = await add_litellm_data_to_request(
-        data=data,
-        request=request,
-        user_api_key_dict=UserAPIKeyAuth(metadata={"tier": tier}),
-        proxy_config=ProxyConfig(),
-    )
-
-    print("new_data", new_data)
-
-    assert new_data["metadata"]["tier"] == tier