diff --git a/tests/test_litellm/litellm_core_utils/test_decode_special_tokens.py b/tests/test_litellm/litellm_core_utils/test_decode_special_tokens.py
index f0f2b8e7f5d..d1a5f78a859 100644
--- a/tests/test_litellm/litellm_core_utils/test_decode_special_tokens.py
+++ b/tests/test_litellm/litellm_core_utils/test_decode_special_tokens.py
@@ -1,17 +1,37 @@
+from tokenizers import AddedToken, Tokenizer
+from tokenizers.models import WordLevel
+from tokenizers.pre_tokenizers import Whitespace
+from tokenizers.processors import TemplateProcessing
+
 from litellm import decode, encode
 
 
-def test_decode_can_preserve_huggingface_special_tokens():
-    sample_text = "Hello World, this is my input string!"
-    tokens = encode(model="meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-chat", text=sample_text)
+def _create_custom_tokenizer():
+    tokenizer = Tokenizer(
+        WordLevel({"[UNK]": 0, "Hello": 1, "World": 2}, unk_token="[UNK]")
+    )
+    tokenizer.pre_tokenizer = Whitespace()
+    tokenizer.add_special_tokens([AddedToken("[BOS]", special=True)])
+    bos_token_id = tokenizer.token_to_id("[BOS]")
+    assert bos_token_id is not None
+    tokenizer.post_processor = TemplateProcessing(
+        single="[BOS] $A",
+        special_tokens=[("[BOS]", bos_token_id)],
+    )
+    return {"type": "huggingface_tokenizer", "tokenizer": tokenizer}
 
-    decoded_text = decode(model="meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-chat", tokens=tokens)
+
+def test_decode_can_preserve_huggingface_special_tokens():
+    custom_tokenizer = _create_custom_tokenizer()
+    sample_text = "Hello World"
+    tokens = encode(text=sample_text, custom_tokenizer=custom_tokenizer)
+
+    decoded_text = decode(tokens=tokens, custom_tokenizer=custom_tokenizer)
     decoded_text_with_special_tokens = decode(
-        model="meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-chat",
         tokens=tokens,
+        custom_tokenizer=custom_tokenizer,
         skip_special_tokens=False,
     )
 
     assert decoded_text == sample_text
-    assert sample_text in decoded_text_with_special_tokens
-    assert decoded_text_with_special_tokens != sample_text
+    assert decoded_text_with_special_tokens == "[BOS] Hello World"