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diff --git a/litellm/utils.py b/litellm/utils.py
index bfd2437f7..12510e01a 100644
--- a/litellm/utils.py
+++ b/litellm/utils.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import tiktoken
 import uuid
 import aiohttp
 from tokenizers import Tokenizer
+import pkg_resources
 encoding = tiktoken.get_encoding("cl100k_base")
 import importlib.metadata
 from .integrations.traceloop import TraceloopLogger
@@ -723,7 +724,8 @@ def token_counter(model="", text=None,  messages: Optional[List] = None):
         # anthropic 
         elif model in litellm.anthropic_models:
             # Read the JSON file
-            with open('../llms/tokenizers/anthropic_tokenizer.json', 'r') as f:
+            filename = pkg_resources.resource_filename(__name__, 'llms/tokenizers/anthropic_tokenizer.json')
+            with open(filename, 'r') as f:
                 json_data = json.load(f)
             # Decode the JSON data from utf-8
             json_data_decoded = json.dumps(json_data, ensure_ascii=False)
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index fac1e2b84..5af5ffcec 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "litellm"
-version = "0.1.735"
+version = "0.1.736"
 description = "Library to easily interface with LLM API providers"
 authors = ["BerriAI"]
 license = "MIT License"