diff --git a/Sources/Tokenizers/Tokenizer.swift b/Sources/Tokenizers/Tokenizer.swift
index ad820e06..3b166daf 100644
--- a/Sources/Tokenizers/Tokenizer.swift
+++ b/Sources/Tokenizers/Tokenizer.swift
@@ -168,6 +168,7 @@ enum TokenizerModel {
         "LlamaTokenizer": BPETokenizer.self,
         "RobertaTokenizer": BPETokenizer.self,
         "T5Tokenizer": T5Tokenizer.self,
+        "TokenizersBackend": BPETokenizer.self,
         "PreTrainedTokenizer": BPETokenizer.self,
         "Qwen2Tokenizer": BPETokenizer.self,
         "WhisperTokenizer": BPETokenizer.self,
diff --git a/Tests/TokenizersTests/TokenizerTests.swift b/Tests/TokenizersTests/TokenizerTests.swift
index b81189a8..150abd14 100644
--- a/Tests/TokenizersTests/TokenizerTests.swift
+++ b/Tests/TokenizersTests/TokenizerTests.swift
@@ -362,4 +362,13 @@ struct TokenizerTests {
         #expect(tokenizer.tokenize(text: "<s>Who are you?</s>") == ["<s>", "Who", "Ġare", "Ġyou", "?", "</s>"])
         #expect(tokenizer.encode(text: "<s>Who are you?</s>") == [0, 0, 12375, 32, 47, 116, 2, 2])
     }
+
+    @Test
+    func tokenizerBackend() async throws {
+        let tokenizerOpt = try await AutoTokenizer.from(pretrained: "mlx-community/Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512-4bit") as? PreTrainedTokenizer
+        #expect(tokenizerOpt != nil)
+        let tokenizer = tokenizerOpt!
+
+        #expect(tokenizer.encode(text: "She took a train to the West") == [6284, 5244, 1261, 10018, 1317, 1278, 5046])
+    }
 }