diff --git a/litellm/llms/anthropic.py b/litellm/llms/anthropic.py
index 150ae0e0761..6bfedc10168 100644
--- a/litellm/llms/anthropic.py
+++ b/litellm/llms/anthropic.py
@@ -200,10 +200,10 @@ def completion(
 
         ## CALCULATING USAGE
         prompt_tokens = len(
-            encoding.encode(prompt)
+            encoding.encode(prompt,disallowed_special=())
         )  ##[TODO] use the anthropic tokenizer here
         completion_tokens = len(
-            encoding.encode(model_response["choices"][0]["message"].get("content", ""))
+            encoding.encode(model_response["choices"][0]["message"].get("content", ""),disallowed_special=())
         )  ##[TODO] use the anthropic tokenizer here
 
         model_response["created"] = int(time.time())