From 18ca6b2addc3c6f0d73ac2e42b1f5069b684c75d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Otavio Brito <69211663+otaviofbrito@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2026 15:35:00 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] Handle not supported region for vertex ai count tokens -
 v1/messages/count_tokens (#18665)

* Handle not supported region for vertex ai count tokens

* add unit test
---
 .../my-website/docs/anthropic_count_tokens.md |  1 +
 litellm/llms/vertex_ai/common_utils.py        |  7 +++
 .../vertex_ai/test_vertex_ai_common_utils.py  | 47 +++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 55 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/my-website/docs/anthropic_count_tokens.md b/docs/my-website/docs/anthropic_count_tokens.md
index 25c38887085..963172fec4e 100644
--- a/docs/my-website/docs/anthropic_count_tokens.md
+++ b/docs/my-website/docs/anthropic_count_tokens.md
@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ model_list:
       model: vertex_ai/claude-3-5-sonnet-v2@20241022
       vertex_project: my-project
       vertex_location: us-east5
+      vertex_count_tokens_location: us-east5 # Optional: Override location for token counting (count_tokens not available on global location)
 
   - model_name: claude-bedrock
     litellm_params:
diff --git a/litellm/llms/vertex_ai/common_utils.py b/litellm/llms/vertex_ai/common_utils.py
index 7d84b7c9098..2aa6a00c72b 100644
--- a/litellm/llms/vertex_ai/common_utils.py
+++ b/litellm/llms/vertex_ai/common_utils.py
@@ -941,9 +941,16 @@ class VertexAITokenCounter(BaseTokenCounter):
             vertex_project = count_tokens_params_request.get(
                 "vertex_project"
             ) or count_tokens_params_request.get("vertex_ai_project")
+            
             vertex_location = count_tokens_params_request.get(
                 "vertex_location"
             ) or count_tokens_params_request.get("vertex_ai_location")
+
+            # Count tokens not available on global location: https://docs.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/partner-models/claude/count-tokens
+            vertex_location = count_tokens_params_request.get(
+                "vertex_count_tokens_location"
+            ) or vertex_location
+
             vertex_credentials = count_tokens_params_request.get(
                 "vertex_credentials"
             ) or count_tokens_params_request.get("vertex_ai_credentials")
diff --git a/tests/test_litellm/llms/vertex_ai/test_vertex_ai_common_utils.py b/tests/test_litellm/llms/vertex_ai/test_vertex_ai_common_utils.py
index f850b53e12b..591b33911dc 100644
--- a/tests/test_litellm/llms/vertex_ai/test_vertex_ai_common_utils.py
+++ b/tests/test_litellm/llms/vertex_ai/test_vertex_ai_common_utils.py
@@ -1021,6 +1021,53 @@ async def test_vertex_ai_token_counter_routes_partner_models():
         assert result.tokenizer_type == "vertex_ai_partner_models"
 
 
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_vertex_ai_token_counter_uses_count_tokens_location():
+    """
+    Test that VertexAITokenCounter uses vertex_count_tokens_location to override
+    vertex_location when counting tokens for partner models.
+
+    Count tokens API is not available on global location for partner models:
+    https://docs.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/partner-models/claude/count-tokens
+    """
+    from unittest.mock import patch
+
+    from litellm.llms.vertex_ai.common_utils import VertexAITokenCounter
+    from litellm.types.utils import TokenCountResponse
+
+    token_counter = VertexAITokenCounter()
+
+    # Mock the partner models handler
+    with patch(
+        "litellm.llms.vertex_ai.vertex_ai_partner_models.main.VertexAIPartnerModels.count_tokens"
+    ) as mock_partner_count_tokens:
+        mock_partner_count_tokens.return_value = {
+            "input_tokens": 42,
+            "tokenizer_used": "vertex_ai_partner_models",
+        }
+
+        # Test with vertex_count_tokens_location overriding vertex_location
+        await token_counter.count_tokens(
+            model_to_use="claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022",
+            messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
+            contents=None,
+            deployment={
+                "litellm_params": {
+                    "vertex_project": "test-project",
+                    "vertex_location": "global",  # Original location (not supported for count_tokens)
+                    "vertex_count_tokens_location": "us-east5",  # Override for count_tokens
+                }
+            },
+            request_model="vertex_ai/claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022",
+        )
+
+        # Verify the partner models handler was called with the overridden location
+        assert mock_partner_count_tokens.called
+        call_kwargs = mock_partner_count_tokens.call_args.kwargs
+        assert call_kwargs["vertex_location"] == "us-east5"
+        assert call_kwargs["vertex_project"] == "test-project"
+
+
 @pytest.mark.asyncio
 async def test_vertex_ai_token_counter_routes_gemini_models():
     """