diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/server.py b/python/sglang/srt/server.py
index 46f19d567..7111c9333 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/server.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/server.py
@@ -809,4 +809,12 @@ class Engine:
     def shutdown(self):
         kill_child_process(os.getpid(), including_parent=False)
 
+    def get_tokenizer(self):
+        global tokenizer_manager
+
+        if tokenizer_manager is None:
+            raise ReferenceError("Tokenizer Manager is not initialized.")
+        else:
+            return tokenizer_manager.tokenizer
+
     # TODO (ByronHsu): encode