diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index c1251832..dc401c10 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -4187,6 +4187,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "hf-hub",
  "log",
  "pkg-config",
+ "pyo3",
  "text-generation-router",
  "thiserror",
  "tokenizers",
diff --git a/backends/trtllm/Cargo.toml b/backends/trtllm/Cargo.toml
index 97ef1a76..bed04183 100644
--- a/backends/trtllm/Cargo.toml
+++ b/backends/trtllm/Cargo.toml
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ cxx = "1.0"
 hashbrown = "0.14"
 hf-hub = { workspace = true }
 log = { version = "0.4", features = [] }
+pyo3 = { workspace = true }
 text-generation-router = { path = "../../router" }
 tokenizers = { workspace = true }
 tokio = { version = "1.39", features = ["rt", "rt-multi-thread", "parking_lot", "signal", "sync"] }
diff --git a/backends/trtllm/src/main.rs b/backends/trtllm/src/main.rs
index ec54ccce..5f1b70f0 100644
--- a/backends/trtllm/src/main.rs
+++ b/backends/trtllm/src/main.rs
@@ -3,12 +3,13 @@ use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
 use clap::Parser;
 use hf_hub::api::tokio::{Api, ApiBuilder};
 use hf_hub::{Cache, Repo, RepoType};
+use pyo3::types::IntoPyDict;
 use tokenizers::Tokenizer;
 use tracing::info;
 
 use text_generation_backends_trtllm::errors::TensorRtLlmBackendError;
 use text_generation_backends_trtllm::TensorRtLlmBackendV2;
-use text_generation_router::server::get_base_tokenizer;
+use text_generation_router::server::{get_base_tokenizer, get_hub_model_info};
 use text_generation_router::usage_stats::UsageStatsLevel;
 use text_generation_router::{server, HubTokenizerConfig};
 
@@ -129,6 +130,7 @@ async fn get_tokenizer(
         tokenizer_config_filename,
         _preprocessor_config_filename,
         _processor_config_filename,
+        _model_info,
     ) = match api {
         Type::None => (
             Some(local_path.join("tokenizer.json")),
@@ -136,12 +138,13 @@ async fn get_tokenizer(
             Some(local_path.join("tokenizer_config.json")),
             Some(local_path.join("preprocessor_config.json")),
             Some(local_path.join("processor_config.json")),
+            None,
         ),
         Type::Api(api) => {
             let api_repo = api.repo(Repo::with_revision(
                 tokenizer_name.to_string(),
                 RepoType::Model,
-                revision.unwrap_or_else(|| "main").to_string(),
+                revision.clone().unwrap_or("main").to_string(),
             ));
 
             let tokenizer_filename = match api_repo.get("tokenizer.json").await {
@@ -153,19 +156,26 @@ async fn get_tokenizer(
             let preprocessor_config_filename = api_repo.get("preprocessor_config.json").await.ok();
             let processor_config_filename = api_repo.get("processor_config.json").await.ok();
 
+            let model_info = if let Some(model_info) = get_hub_model_info(&api_repo).await {
+                Some(model_info)
+            } else {
+                tracing::warn!("Could not retrieve model info from the Hugging Face hub.");
+                None
+            };
             (
                 tokenizer_filename,
                 config_filename,
                 tokenizer_config_filename,
                 preprocessor_config_filename,
                 processor_config_filename,
+                model_info,
             )
         }
         Type::Cache(cache) => {
             let repo = cache.repo(Repo::with_revision(
                 tokenizer_name.to_string(),
                 RepoType::Model,
-                revision.clone().unwrap_or_else(|| "main").to_string(),
+                revision.clone().unwrap_or("main").to_string(),
             ));
             (
                 repo.get("tokenizer.json"),
@@ -173,6 +183,7 @@ async fn get_tokenizer(
                 repo.get("tokenizer_config.json"),
                 repo.get("preprocessor_config.json"),
                 repo.get("processor_config.json"),
+                None,
             )
         }
     };
@@ -184,8 +195,43 @@ async fn get_tokenizer(
     } else {
         tokenizer_config_filename.and_then(HubTokenizerConfig::from_file)
     };
+    let tokenizer_config = tokenizer_config.unwrap_or_else(|| {
+        tracing::warn!("Could not find tokenizer config locally and no API specified");
+        HubTokenizerConfig::default()
+    });
 
-    tokenizer_filename.and_then(|filename| Tokenizer::from_file(filename).ok())
+    let tokenizer: Option<Tokenizer> = tokenizer_filename.and_then(|filename| {
+        use pyo3::prelude::*;
+        let convert = pyo3::Python::with_gil(|py| -> PyResult<()> {
+            let transformers = py.import_bound("transformers")?;
+            let auto = transformers.getattr("AutoTokenizer")?;
+            let from_pretrained = auto.getattr("from_pretrained")?;
+            let args = (tokenizer_name.to_string(),);
+            let kwargs = [(
+                "revision",
+                revision.clone().unwrap_or_else(|| "main"),
+            )]
+                .into_py_dict_bound(py);
+            let tokenizer = from_pretrained.call(args, Some(&kwargs))?;
+            let save = tokenizer.getattr("save_pretrained")?;
+            let args = ("out".to_string(),);
+            save.call1(args)?;
+            Ok(())
+        })
+            .inspect_err(|err| {
+                tracing::error!("Failed to import python tokenizer {err}");
+            });
+        let filename = if convert.is_ok() {
+            // If we have correctly loaded and resaved with transformers
+            // We might have modified the tokenizer.json according to transformers
+            "out/tokenizer.json".into()
+        } else {
+            filename
+        };
+        Tokenizer::from_file(filename).ok()
+    });
+
+    tokenizer
 }
 
 #[tokio::main]