diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/layers/rotary_embedding.py b/python/sglang/srt/layers/rotary_embedding.py
index 43478f39d..ad265830f 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/layers/rotary_embedding.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/layers/rotary_embedding.py
@@ -1018,7 +1018,12 @@ def get_rope(
             head_size, rotary_dim, max_position, base, is_neox_style, dtype
         )
     else:
-        scaling_type = rope_scaling["rope_type"]
+        if "rope_type" in rope_scaling:
+            scaling_type = rope_scaling["rope_type"]
+        elif "type" in rope_scaling:
+            scaling_type = rope_scaling["type"]
+        else:
+            raise ValueError("Unknown RoPE scaling type")
 
         if scaling_type == "llama3":
             scaling_factor = rope_scaling["factor"]