diff --git a/public/index.html b/public/index.html
index ecad679cc..5872d9d18 100644
--- a/public/index.html
+++ b/public/index.html
@@ -1306,7 +1306,7 @@
                                         <hr data-newbie-hidden class="width100p">
                                         <h4 class="range-block-title justifyCenter">
                                             <span data-i18n="Banned Tokens">Banned Tokens</span>
-                                            <div class="margin5 fa-solid fa-circle-info opacity50p " title="LLaMA models only.&#13;Sequences you don't want to appear in the output.&#13;One per line. Text or [token ids].&#13;Most tokens have a leading space."></div>
+                                            <div class="margin5 fa-solid fa-circle-info opacity50p " title="LLaMA / Mistral / Yi models only. Make sure to select an appropriate tokenizer first.&#13;Sequences you don't want to appear in the output.&#13;One per line. Text or [token ids].&#13;Most tokens have a leading space. Use token counter if unsure."></div>
                                         </h4>
                                         <div class="wide100p">
                                             <textarea id="banned_tokens_textgenerationwebui" class="text_pole textarea_compact" name="banned_tokens_textgenerationwebui" rows="3" placeholder="Example:&#10;some text&#10;[42, 69, 1337]"></textarea>
diff --git a/public/scripts/textgen-settings.js b/public/scripts/textgen-settings.js
index 6cc76db50..eaec3dcc7 100644
--- a/public/scripts/textgen-settings.js
+++ b/public/scripts/textgen-settings.js
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ import {
     power_user,
     registerDebugFunction,
 } from "./power-user.js";
-import { getTextTokens, tokenizers } from "./tokenizers.js";
+import { SENTENCEPIECE_TOKENIZERS, getTextTokens, tokenizers } from "./tokenizers.js";
 import { onlyUnique } from "./utils.js";
 
 export {
@@ -187,6 +187,7 @@ function getCustomTokenBans() {
         return '';
     }
 
+    const tokenizer = SENTENCEPIECE_TOKENIZERS.includes(power_user.tokenizer) ? power_user.tokenizer : tokenizers.LLAMA;
     const result = [];
     const sequences = textgenerationwebui_settings.banned_tokens
         .split('\n')
@@ -218,7 +219,7 @@ function getCustomTokenBans() {
             }
         } else {
             try {
-                const tokens = getTextTokens(tokenizers.LLAMA, line);
+                const tokens = getTextTokens(tokenizer, line);
                 result.push(...tokens);
             } catch {
                 console.log(`Could not tokenize raw text: ${line}`);
diff --git a/public/scripts/tokenizers.js b/public/scripts/tokenizers.js
index c6ab38cad..079cbf33b 100644
--- a/public/scripts/tokenizers.js
+++ b/public/scripts/tokenizers.js
@@ -22,6 +22,15 @@ export const tokenizers = {
     BEST_MATCH: 99,
 };
 
+export const SENTENCEPIECE_TOKENIZERS = [
+    tokenizers.LLAMA,
+    tokenizers.MISTRAL,
+    tokenizers.YI,
+    // uncomment when NovelAI releases Kayra and Clio weights, lol
+    //tokenizers.NERD,
+    //tokenizers.NERD2,
+];
+
 const objectStore = new localforage.createInstance({ name: "SillyTavern_ChatCompletions" });
 
 let tokenCache = {};