diff --git a/litellm/litellm_core_utils/token_counter.py b/litellm/litellm_core_utils/token_counter.py
index 1d475c6b396..54b548a8ae0 100644
--- a/litellm/litellm_core_utils/token_counter.py
+++ b/litellm/litellm_core_utils/token_counter.py
@@ -626,7 +626,10 @@ def _get_exact_count_function(
             tokenizer: Final[Tokenizer | NativeTokenizer] = tokenizer_json["tokenizer"]
 
             def count_tokens(text: str) -> int:
-                return tokenizer.count(text)
+                count: Final = getattr(tokenizer, "count", None)
+                if callable(count):
+                    return count(text)
+                return len(tokenizer.encode_batch_fast([text])[0])
 
             return count_tokens
         elif tokenizer_json["type"] == "openai_tokenizer":