diff --git a/cognee/infrastructure/databases/vector/embeddings/LiteLLMEmbeddingEngine.py b/cognee/infrastructure/databases/vector/embeddings/LiteLLMEmbeddingEngine.py
index b51d397ed..54f319be3 100644
--- a/cognee/infrastructure/databases/vector/embeddings/LiteLLMEmbeddingEngine.py
+++ b/cognee/infrastructure/databases/vector/embeddings/LiteLLMEmbeddingEngine.py
@@ -177,7 +177,12 @@ class LiteLLMEmbeddingEngine(EmbeddingEngine):
         elif "mistral" in self.provider.lower():
             tokenizer = MistralTokenizer(model=model, max_tokens=self.max_tokens)
         else:
-            tokenizer = HuggingFaceTokenizer(model=self.model, max_tokens=self.max_tokens)
+            try:
+                tokenizer = HuggingFaceTokenizer(model=self.model, max_tokens=self.max_tokens)
+            except Exception as e:
+                logger.warning(f"Could not get tokenizer from HuggingFace due to: {e}")
+                logger.info("Switching to TikToken default tokenizer.")
+                tokenizer = TikTokenTokenizer(model=None, max_tokens=self.max_tokens)
 
         logger.debug(f"Tokenizer loaded for model: {self.model}")
         return tokenizer
diff --git a/cognee/infrastructure/llm/tokenizer/TikToken/adapter.py b/cognee/infrastructure/llm/tokenizer/TikToken/adapter.py
index 881ffaba7..8806112c3 100644
--- a/cognee/infrastructure/llm/tokenizer/TikToken/adapter.py
+++ b/cognee/infrastructure/llm/tokenizer/TikToken/adapter.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-from typing import List, Any
+from typing import List, Any, Optional
 import tiktoken
 
 from ..tokenizer_interface import TokenizerInterface
@@ -12,13 +12,17 @@ class TikTokenTokenizer(TokenizerInterface):
 
     def __init__(
         self,
-        model: str,
+        model: Optional[str] = None,
         max_tokens: int = 8191,
     ):
         self.model = model
         self.max_tokens = max_tokens
         # Initialize TikToken for GPT based on model
-        self.tokenizer = tiktoken.encoding_for_model(self.model)
+        if model:
+            self.tokenizer = tiktoken.encoding_for_model(self.model)
+        else:
+            # Use default if model not provided
+            self.tokenizer = tiktoken.get_encoding("cl100k_base")
 
     def extract_tokens(self, text: str) -> List[Any]:
         """