diff --git a/tokenizers/src/utils/from_pretrained.rs b/tokenizers/src/utils/from_pretrained.rs
index 223fbbeb9..a59bc21a5 100644
--- a/tokenizers/src/utils/from_pretrained.rs
+++ b/tokenizers/src/utils/from_pretrained.rs
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ pub fn from_pretrained<S: AsRef<str>>(
         .into());
     }
 
-    let mut builder = ApiBuilder::new();
+    let mut builder = ApiBuilder::from_env();
     if let Some(token) = params.token {
         builder = builder.with_token(Some(token));
     }