diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index e4b6af2bbad..c257883ee40 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ pip-out/
 # Any exported models and profiling outputs
 *.bin
 *.model
+tokenizer.json
 *.pte
 !test_bpe_tokenizer.bin
 !test_tiktoken_tokenizer.model