diff --git a/benchmarks/backend_request_func.py b/benchmarks/backend_request_func.py
index b67849038cf0d..9d71e4ecc4a37 100644
--- a/benchmarks/backend_request_func.py
+++ b/benchmarks/backend_request_func.py
@@ -417,14 +417,35 @@ def get_model(pretrained_model_name_or_path: str) -> str:
 
 
 def get_tokenizer(
-    pretrained_model_name_or_path: str, trust_remote_code: bool
+    pretrained_model_name_or_path: str,
+    tokenizer_mode: str = "auto",
+    trust_remote_code: bool = False,
+    **kwargs,
 ) -> Union[PreTrainedTokenizer, PreTrainedTokenizerFast]:
     if pretrained_model_name_or_path is not None and not os.path.exists(
             pretrained_model_name_or_path):
         pretrained_model_name_or_path = get_model(
             pretrained_model_name_or_path)
-    return AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(pretrained_model_name_or_path,
-                                         trust_remote_code=trust_remote_code)
+    if tokenizer_mode == "slow":
+        if kwargs.get("use_fast", False):
+            raise ValueError(
+                "Cannot use the fast tokenizer in slow tokenizer mode.")
+        kwargs["use_fast"] = False
+    if tokenizer_mode == "mistral":
+        try:
+            from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import MistralTokenizer
+        except ImportError as e:
+            raise ImportError("MistralTokenizer requires vllm package.\n"
+                              "Please install it with `pip install vllm` "
+                              "to use mistral tokenizer mode.") from e
+        return MistralTokenizer.from_pretrained(
+            str(pretrained_model_name_or_path))
+    else:
+        return AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(
+            pretrained_model_name_or_path,
+            trust_remote_code=trust_remote_code,
+            **kwargs,
+        )
 
 
 ASYNC_REQUEST_FUNCS = {