diff --git a/litellm/llms/bedrock/chat/converse_handler.py b/litellm/llms/bedrock/chat/converse_handler.py
index b70c15b3e1f..d45ab40c4bd 100644
--- a/litellm/llms/bedrock/chat/converse_handler.py
+++ b/litellm/llms/bedrock/chat/converse_handler.py
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ class BedrockConverseLLM(BaseAWSLLM):
         if modelId is not None:
             modelId = self.encode_model_id(model_id=modelId)
         else:
-            modelId = model
+            modelId = self.encode_model_id(model_id=model)
 
         if stream is True and "ai21" in modelId:
             fake_stream = True
diff --git a/tests/litellm/llms/chat/test_converse_handler.py b/tests/litellm/llms/chat/test_converse_handler.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9d8371c04da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/litellm/llms/chat/test_converse_handler.py
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+import os
+import sys
+
+from litellm.llms.bedrock.chat import BedrockConverseLLM
+
+sys.path.insert(
+    0, os.path.abspath("../../../../..")
+)  # Adds the parent directory to the system path
+import litellm
+
+
+def test_encode_model_id_with_inference_profile():
+    """
+    Test instance profile is properly encoded when used as a model
+    """
+    test_model = "arn:aws:bedrock:us-east-1:12345678910:application-inference-profile/ujdtmcirjhevpi"
+    expected_model = "arn%3Aaws%3Abedrock%3Aus-east-1%3A12345678910%3Aapplication-inference-profile%2Fujdtmcirjhevpi"
+    bedrock_converse_llm = BedrockConverseLLM()
+    returned_model = bedrock_converse_llm.encode_model_id(test_model)
+    assert expected_model == returned_model
diff --git a/tests/llm_translation/test_bedrock_completion.py b/tests/llm_translation/test_bedrock_completion.py
index e2948789fcb..602992aee84 100644
--- a/tests/llm_translation/test_bedrock_completion.py
+++ b/tests/llm_translation/test_bedrock_completion.py
@@ -983,7 +983,7 @@ async def test_bedrock_custom_api_base():
         print(f"mock_client_post.call_args.kwargs: {mock_client_post.call_args.kwargs}")
         assert (
             mock_client_post.call_args.kwargs["url"]
-            == "https://gateway.ai.cloudflare.com/v1/fa4cdcab1f32b95ca3b53fd36043d691/test/aws-bedrock/bedrock-runtime/us-east-1/model/anthropic.claude-3-sonnet-20240229-v1:0/converse"
+            == "https://gateway.ai.cloudflare.com/v1/fa4cdcab1f32b95ca3b53fd36043d691/test/aws-bedrock/bedrock-runtime/us-east-1/model/anthropic.claude-3-sonnet-20240229-v1%3A0/converse"
         )
         assert "test" in mock_client_post.call_args.kwargs["headers"]
         assert mock_client_post.call_args.kwargs["headers"]["test"] == "hello world"
@@ -2382,7 +2382,7 @@ def test_bedrock_cross_region_inference(monkeypatch):
 
         assert (
             mock_post.call_args.kwargs["url"]
-            == "https://bedrock-runtime.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/model/us.meta.llama3-3-70b-instruct-v1:0/converse"
+            == "https://bedrock-runtime.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/model/us.meta.llama3-3-70b-instruct-v1%3A0/converse"
         )