diff --git a/router/src/infer.rs b/router/src/infer.rs
index eb489b5f..ec91b54e 100644
--- a/router/src/infer.rs
+++ b/router/src/infer.rs
@@ -140,19 +140,9 @@ impl Infer {
 
     /// Apply the chat template to the chat request
     #[instrument(skip_all)]
-
     pub(crate) fn apply_chat_template(&self, chat: ChatRequest) -> Result<String, InferError> {
-        let mut env = minijinja::Environment::new();
-        let chat_template = self
-            .tokenizer_config
-            .chat_template
-            .as_ref()
-            .ok_or_else(|| {
-                InferError::TemplateError(minijinja::ErrorKind::TemplateNotFound.into())
-            })?;
-        env.add_template("_", chat_template)?;
-        env.get_template("_")?
-            .render(chat)
+        self.tokenizer_config
+            .apply_chat_template(chat)
             .map_err(InferError::TemplateError)
     }
 
diff --git a/router/src/lib.rs b/router/src/lib.rs
index 05d5e5a2..3ffc1275 100644
--- a/router/src/lib.rs
+++ b/router/src/lib.rs
@@ -26,6 +26,22 @@ pub struct HubTokenizerConfig {
     pub chat_template: Option<String>,
 }
 
+impl HubTokenizerConfig {
+    /// Apply the chat template to the chat request
+    pub(crate) fn apply_chat_template(
+        &self,
+        chat: ChatRequest,
+    ) -> Result<String, minijinja::Error> {
+        let mut env = minijinja::Environment::new();
+        let chat_template = self
+            .chat_template
+            .as_ref()
+            .ok_or(minijinja::ErrorKind::TemplateNotFound)?;
+        env.add_template("_", chat_template)?;
+        env.get_template("_")?.render(chat)
+    }
+}
+
 #[derive(Clone, Debug, Serialize, ToSchema)]
 pub struct Info {
     /// Model info