diff --git a/build.gradle.kts b/build.gradle.kts
index 957801f1..6588e00a 100644
--- a/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/build.gradle.kts
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ dependencies {
     implementation("ai.djl.sentencepiece:sentencepiece:0.18.0")
     api("ai.djl.pytorch:pytorch-engine:0.18.0")
     api("ai.djl.onnxruntime:onnxruntime-engine:0.18.0")
-    implementation("ai.djl.huggingface:tokenizers:0.18.0")
+    implementation("ai.djl.huggingface:tokenizers:0.21.0")
 
     implementation("com.github.ben-manes.caffeine:caffeine:3.1.1")