diff --git a/litellm/utils.py b/litellm/utils.py
index e1d80c2d2..45bfba303 100644
--- a/litellm/utils.py
+++ b/litellm/utils.py
@@ -3668,7 +3668,7 @@ def _select_tokenizer(model: str):
         tokenizer = Tokenizer.from_str(json_str)
         return {"type": "huggingface_tokenizer", "tokenizer": tokenizer}
     # llama2
-    elif "llama-2" in model.lower():
+    elif "llama-2" in model.lower() or "replicate" in model.lower():
         tokenizer = Tokenizer.from_pretrained("hf-internal-testing/llama-tokenizer")
         return {"type": "huggingface_tokenizer", "tokenizer": tokenizer}
     # default - tiktoken