diff --git a/cognee/infrastructure/databases/vector/embeddings/LiteLLMEmbeddingEngine.py b/cognee/infrastructure/databases/vector/embeddings/LiteLLMEmbeddingEngine.py
index cd74525c1..e1109cf1c 100644
--- a/cognee/infrastructure/databases/vector/embeddings/LiteLLMEmbeddingEngine.py
+++ b/cognee/infrastructure/databases/vector/embeddings/LiteLLMEmbeddingEngine.py
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ class LiteLLMEmbeddingEngine(EmbeddingEngine):
             tokenizer = MistralTokenizer(model=model, max_tokens=self.max_tokens)
         else:
             try:
-                tokenizer = HuggingFaceTokenizer(model=self.model, max_tokens=self.max_tokens)
+                tokenizer = HuggingFaceTokenizer(model=self.model.replace('hosted_vllm/',""), 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.")