diff --git a/tests/conftest.py b/tests/conftest.py
index 294805a8164f..27724b9c111a 100644
--- a/tests/conftest.py
+++ b/tests/conftest.py
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
 from vllm.outputs import RequestOutput
 from vllm.sampling_params import BeamSearchParams
+from vllm.transformers_utils.utils import maybe_model_redirect
 from vllm.utils import cuda_device_count_stateless
 
 logger = init_logger(__name__)
@@ -318,6 +319,7 @@ def __init__(
         skip_tokenizer_init: bool = False,
         auto_cls: type[_BaseAutoModelClass] = AutoModelForCausalLM,
     ) -> None:
+        model_name = maybe_model_redirect(model_name)
         self.model_name = model_name
 
         self.config = AutoConfig.from_pretrained(