diff --git a/router/src/lib.rs b/router/src/lib.rs
index 2bfbbacd..6c16c4b3 100644
--- a/router/src/lib.rs
+++ b/router/src/lib.rs
@@ -548,26 +548,12 @@ pub(crate) struct ErrorResponse {
 
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
-    use std::io::Write;
     use tokenizers::Tokenizer;
 
     pub(crate) async fn get_tokenizer() -> Tokenizer {
-        let filename = std::path::Path::new("tokenizer.json");
-        if !filename.exists() {
-            let content = reqwest::get("https://huggingface.co/gpt2/raw/main/tokenizer.json")
-                .await
-                .unwrap()
-                .bytes()
-                .await
-                .unwrap();
-            let tmp_filename = "tokenizer.json.temp";
-            let mut file = std::fs::File::create(tmp_filename).unwrap();
-            file.write_all(&content).unwrap();
-            // Re-check if another process has written this file maybe.
-            if !filename.exists() {
-                std::fs::rename(tmp_filename, filename).unwrap()
-            }
-        }
-        Tokenizer::from_file("tokenizer.json").unwrap()
+        let api = hf_hub::api::sync::Api::new().unwrap();
+        let repo = api.model("gpt2".to_string());
+        let filename = repo.get("tokenizer.json").unwrap();
+        Tokenizer::from_file(filename).unwrap()
     }
 }