diff --git a/tests/test_litellm/litellm_core_utils/test_token_counter.py b/tests/test_litellm/litellm_core_utils/test_token_counter.py
index a562e72466..0ce16de39f 100644
--- a/tests/test_litellm/litellm_core_utils/test_token_counter.py
+++ b/tests/test_litellm/litellm_core_utils/test_token_counter.py
@@ -582,14 +582,15 @@ class TestTokenizerSelection(unittest.TestCase):
 
     @patch("litellm.utils._return_huggingface_tokenizer")
     def test_disable_hf_tokenizer_download(self, mock_return_huggingface_tokenizer):
-        # Use pytest.MonkeyPatch() directly instead of fixture
         monkeypatch = pytest.MonkeyPatch()
         monkeypatch.setattr(litellm, "disable_hf_tokenizer_download", True)
-
-        result = _select_tokenizer_helper("grok-32r22r")
-        mock_return_huggingface_tokenizer.assert_not_called()
-        assert result["type"] == "openai_tokenizer"
-        assert result["tokenizer"] == encoding
+        try:
+            result = _select_tokenizer_helper("grok-32r22r")
+            mock_return_huggingface_tokenizer.assert_not_called()
+            assert result["type"] == "openai_tokenizer"
+            assert result["tokenizer"] == encoding
+        finally:
+            monkeypatch.undo()
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(