diff --git a/benchmarks/benchmark_serving.py b/benchmarks/benchmark_serving.py
index 6076beba..a738b8b1 100644
--- a/benchmarks/benchmark_serving.py
+++ b/benchmarks/benchmark_serving.py
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@
 import pandas
 
 from eval_accuracy import eval_accuracy
+from transformers import AutoTokenizer
 
 
 def str2bool(v: str) -> bool:
@@ -156,16 +157,29 @@ def to_dict(self):
     }
 
 
-def get_tokenizer(model_id: str, tokenizer_name: str) -> Any:
+def get_tokenizer(
+    model_id: str,
+    tokenizer_name: str,
+    use_hf_tokenizer: bool,
+) -> Any:
   """Return a tokenizer or a tokenizer placholder."""
   if tokenizer_name == "test":
+    print("Using test tokenizer")
     return "test"
+  elif use_hf_tokenizer:
+    # Please accept agreement to access private/gated models in HF, and
+    # follow up instructions below to set up access token
+    # https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers.js/en/guides/private
+    print(f"Using HuggingFace tokenizer: {tokenizer_name}")
+    return AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(tokenizer_name)
   elif model_id == "llama-3":
     # Llama 3 uses a tiktoken tokenizer.
+    print(f"Using llama-3 tokenizer: {tokenizer_name}")
     return llama3_tokenizer.Tokenizer(tokenizer_name)
   else:
     # Use JetStream tokenizer util. It's using the sentencepiece wrapper in
     # seqio library.
+    print(f"Using tokenizer: {tokenizer_name}")
     vocab = load_vocab(tokenizer_name)
     return vocab.tokenizer
 
@@ -563,10 +577,11 @@ def main(args: argparse.Namespace):
 
   model_id = args.model
   tokenizer_id = args.tokenizer
+  use_hf_tokenizer = args.use_hf_tokenizer
 
   api_url = f"{args.server}:{args.port}"
 
-  tokenizer = get_tokenizer(model_id, tokenizer_id)
+  tokenizer = get_tokenizer(model_id, tokenizer_id, use_hf_tokenizer)
   if tokenizer == "test" or args.dataset == "test":
     input_requests = mock_requests(
         args.total_mock_requests
@@ -716,6 +731,15 @@ def main(args: argparse.Namespace):
           " default value)"
       ),
   )
+  parser.add_argument(
+      "--use-hf-tokenizer",
+      type=str2bool,
+      default=False,
+      help=(
+          "Whether to use tokenizer from HuggingFace. If so, set this flag"
+          " to True, and provide name of the tokenizer in the tokenizer flag."
+      ),
+  )
   parser.add_argument(
       "--num-prompts",
       type=int,