diff --git a/examples/models/llama/install_requirements.sh b/examples/models/llama/install_requirements.sh
index f72d0ea3cc2..cca6ede1d79 100755
--- a/examples/models/llama/install_requirements.sh
+++ b/examples/models/llama/install_requirements.sh
@@ -5,14 +5,12 @@
 # This source code is licensed under the BSD-style license found in the
 # LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
 
+# Install sentencepiece for llama tokenizer.
+# Install tiktoken for tokenizer.
+# Install tokenizers for hf .json tokenizer.
 # Install snakeviz for cProfile flamegraph
-# Install sentencepiece for llama tokenizer
-pip install snakeviz sentencepiece
-
-# Install lm-eval for Model Evaluation with lm-evalution-harness
-# Install tiktoken for tokenizer
-pip install lm_eval==0.4.5
-pip install tiktoken blobfile
+# Install lm-eval for Model Evaluation with lm-evalution-harness.
+pip install tiktoken sentencepiece tokenizers snakeviz lm_eval==0.4.5 blobfile
 
 # Call the install helper for further setup
 python examples/models/llama/install_requirement_helper.py
diff --git a/examples/models/llama/runner/eager.py b/examples/models/llama/runner/eager.py
index 54cfc283ae9..0b842a8f976 100644
--- a/examples/models/llama/runner/eager.py
+++ b/examples/models/llama/runner/eager.py
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ def __init__(self, args):
             params = json.loads(f.read())
         super().__init__(
             tokenizer_path=args.tokenizer_path,
+            tokenizer_config_path=args.tokenizer_config_path,
             max_seq_len=args.max_seq_length,
             max_batch_size=1,
             use_kv_cache=args.use_kv_cache,
@@ -74,6 +75,13 @@ def build_args_parser() -> argparse.ArgumentParser:
         help="Have multi-turn chat with the model",
     )
 
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--tokenizer_config_path",
+        type=str,
+        default=None,
+        help="Path to an accompanying tokenizer_config.json, which provides metadata for the main tokenizer.json",
+    )
+
     return parser
 
 
diff --git a/examples/models/llama/runner/generation.py b/examples/models/llama/runner/generation.py
index 891ce20db3e..3e9ceb34af5 100644
--- a/examples/models/llama/runner/generation.py
+++ b/examples/models/llama/runner/generation.py
@@ -48,7 +48,9 @@ def next_token(logits: torch.Tensor, temperature: float, top_p: float) -> int:
 class LlamaRunner(ABC):
     def __init__(
         self,
+        *,
         tokenizer_path: str,
+        tokenizer_config_path: Optional[str] = None,
         max_seq_len: int,
         max_batch_size: int,
         use_kv_cache: bool,
@@ -59,19 +61,23 @@ def __init__(
         Constructor.
 
         Args:
-        tokenizer_path: path to tokenizer.model file.
-        max_seq_len: max length of the output sequence, after which the output will be clipped.
-        max_batch_size: max batch size.
-        use_kv_cache: whether to use a KV cache.
-        vocab_size: number of items in the vocab.
-        device: device to run the runner on.
+            tokenizer_path: path to tokenizer.model file.
+            max_seq_len: max length of the output sequence, after which the output will be clipped.
+            max_batch_size: max batch size.
+            use_kv_cache: whether to use a KV cache.
+            vocab_size: number of items in the vocab.
+            device: device to run the runner on.
         """
         self.max_seq_len = max_seq_len
         self.max_batch_size = max_batch_size
         self.use_kv_cache = use_kv_cache
-        self.tokenizer = get_tokenizer(tokenizer_path)
+        self.tokenizer = get_tokenizer(tokenizer_path, tokenizer_config_path)
         self.device = device
-        assert vocab_size == self.tokenizer.n_words
+        # For some models like qwen, mismatch is acceptable: https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen2.5/issues/466#issuecomment-2146759706
+        if vocab_size != self.tokenizer.n_words:
+            print(
+                "Warning - given vocab_size in params is unequal to tokenizer vocab size."
+            )
 
     @abstractmethod
     def forward(
diff --git a/examples/models/llama/runner/native.py b/examples/models/llama/runner/native.py
index a6b055ced95..6d5d4730844 100644
--- a/examples/models/llama/runner/native.py
+++ b/examples/models/llama/runner/native.py
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ def __init__(self, args):
             params = json.loads(f.read())
         super().__init__(
             tokenizer_path=args.tokenizer,
+            tokenizer_config_path=args.tokenizer_config,
             max_seq_len=args.max_len,
             max_batch_size=1,
             use_kv_cache=args.kv_cache,
@@ -56,6 +57,14 @@ def forward(
         )[0]
 
 
+def validate_args(args) -> None:
+    if args.tokenizer and args.tokenizer.endswith(".json"):
+        if not args.tokenizer_config:
+            raise TypeError(
+                "Json tokenizers require an accompanying tokenizer config (--tokenizer_config) to be specified."
+            )
+
+
 def build_args_parser() -> argparse.ArgumentParser:
     # TODO: merge these with build_args_parser from export_llama_lib.
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
@@ -85,6 +94,13 @@ def build_args_parser() -> argparse.ArgumentParser:
         default=None,
     )
 
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--tokenizer_config",
+        type=str,
+        default=None,
+        help="Path to an accompanying tokenizer_config.json, which provides metadata for the main tokenizer.json",
+    )
+
     parser.add_argument(
         "--prompt",
         type=str,
@@ -116,6 +132,7 @@ def build_args_parser() -> argparse.ArgumentParser:
 def main() -> None:
     parser = build_args_parser()
     args = parser.parse_args()
+    validate_args(args)
     runner = NativeLlamaRunner(args)
     generated_tokens = runner.text_completion(
         prompt=args.prompt,
diff --git a/examples/models/llama3_2_vision/runner/generation.py b/examples/models/llama3_2_vision/runner/generation.py
index e17760fd852..88a6a44a535 100644
--- a/examples/models/llama3_2_vision/runner/generation.py
+++ b/examples/models/llama3_2_vision/runner/generation.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 class TorchTuneLlamaRunner(LlamaRunner):
     def __init__(
         self,
+        *,
         tokenizer_path: str,
         max_seq_len: int,
         max_batch_size: int,
@@ -21,12 +22,12 @@ def __init__(
         device: str = "cpu",
     ):
         super().__init__(
-            tokenizer_path,
-            max_seq_len,
-            max_batch_size,
-            use_kv_cache,
-            vocab_size,
-            device,
+            tokenizer_path=tokenizer_path,
+            max_seq_len=max_seq_len,
+            max_batch_size=max_batch_size,
+            use_kv_cache=use_kv_cache,
+            vocab_size=vocab_size,
+            device=device,
         )
 
         self.causal_mask = torch.tril(
diff --git a/extension/llm/tokenizer/hf_tokenizer.py b/extension/llm/tokenizer/hf_tokenizer.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..cc2e2cfcfe3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extension/llm/tokenizer/hf_tokenizer.py
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+# Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
+# All rights reserved.
+#
+# This source code is licensed under the BSD-style license found in the
+# LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+
+import json
+import os
+from typing import List, Optional
+
+from tokenizers import Tokenizer
+
+
+class HuggingFaceTokenizer:
+    """
+    Tokenizing and encoding/decoding text using the Hugging face tokenizer.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, model_path: str, config_path: Optional[str] = None):
+        """
+        Initializes the Tokenizer with a tokenizer.json from HuggingFace.
+
+        Args:
+            model_path (str): The path to the Tiktoken model file.
+        """
+        assert os.path.isfile(model_path), model_path
+
+        self.model = tokenizer = Tokenizer.from_file(model_path)
+
+        self.n_words: int = tokenizer.get_vocab_size()
+        if config_path:
+            with open(config_path) as f:
+                tokenizer_config = json.load(f)
+                self.bos_id = (
+                    self.model.token_to_id(tokenizer_config["bos_token"])
+                    if tokenizer_config["bos_token"]
+                    else None
+                )
+                self.eos_id = self.model.token_to_id(tokenizer_config["eos_token"])
+        else:  # Fallback guess.
+            self.bos_id = self.model.token_to_id("<|begin_of_text|>")
+            self.eos_id = self.model.token_to_id("<|endoftext|>")
+
+        self.stop_tokens = [
+            self.eos_id,
+        ]
+
+    def encode(self, s: str, *, bos: bool, eos: bool) -> List[int]:
+        assert type(s) is str
+        return self.model.encode(s).ids
+
+    def decode(self, t: List[int]) -> str:
+        return self.model.decode(t)
+
+    def decode_token(self, t: int) -> str:
+        return self.model.decode([t])
diff --git a/extension/llm/tokenizer/utils.py b/extension/llm/tokenizer/utils.py
index 126a1203274..5377048438a 100644
--- a/extension/llm/tokenizer/utils.py
+++ b/extension/llm/tokenizer/utils.py
@@ -4,16 +4,23 @@
 # This source code is licensed under the BSD-style license found in the
 # LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
 
+from typing import Optional
+
 from executorch.examples.models.llama.tokenizer.tiktoken import Tokenizer as Tiktoken
 from executorch.extension.llm.tokenizer.tokenizer import (
     Tokenizer as SentencePieceTokenizer,
 )
 
 
-def get_tokenizer(tokenizer_path):
-    try:
-        tokenizer = SentencePieceTokenizer(model_path=str(tokenizer_path))
-    except Exception:
-        print("Using Tiktokenizer")
-        tokenizer = Tiktoken(model_path=str(tokenizer_path))
+def get_tokenizer(tokenizer_path: str, tokenizer_config_path: Optional[str] = None):
+    if tokenizer_path.endswith(".json"):
+        from executorch.extension.llm.tokenizer.hf_tokenizer import HuggingFaceTokenizer
+
+        tokenizer = HuggingFaceTokenizer(tokenizer_path, tokenizer_config_path)
+    else:
+        try:
+            tokenizer = SentencePieceTokenizer(model_path=str(tokenizer_path))
+        except Exception:
+            print("Using Tiktokenizer")
+            tokenizer = Tiktoken(model_path=str(tokenizer_path))
     return tokenizer