diff --git a/src/cohere/client.py b/src/cohere/client.py
index 87cd2a159..150295393 100644
--- a/src/cohere/client.py
+++ b/src/cohere/client.py
@@ -212,7 +212,8 @@ def tokenize(
         if offline:
             try:
                 tokens = local_tokenizers.local_tokenize(self, text=text, model=model)
-                return TokenizeResponse(tokens=tokens, token_strings=[])
+                token_strings = local_tokenizers.local_tokens_to_token_strings(self, tokens=tokens, model=model)
+                return TokenizeResponse(tokens=tokens, token_strings=token_strings)
             except Exception:
                 # Fallback to calling the API.
                 opts["additional_headers"] = opts.get("additional_headers", {})
@@ -392,7 +393,8 @@ async def tokenize(
         if offline:
             try:
                 tokens = await local_tokenizers.async_local_tokenize(self, model=model, text=text)
-                return TokenizeResponse(tokens=tokens, token_strings=[])
+                token_strings = await local_tokenizers.async_local_tokens_to_token_strings(self, tokens=tokens, model=model)
+                return TokenizeResponse(tokens=tokens, token_strings=token_strings)
             except Exception:
                 opts["additional_headers"] = opts.get("additional_headers", {})
                 opts["additional_headers"]["sdk-api-warning-message"] = "offline_tokenizer_failed"
diff --git a/src/cohere/manually_maintained/tokenizers.py b/src/cohere/manually_maintained/tokenizers.py
index 61e4e5e6c..8766078a6 100644
--- a/src/cohere/manually_maintained/tokenizers.py
+++ b/src/cohere/manually_maintained/tokenizers.py
@@ -41,6 +41,12 @@ def local_tokenize(co: "Client", model: str, text: str) -> typing.List[int]:
     return tokenizer.encode(text, add_special_tokens=False).ids
 
 
+def local_tokens_to_token_strings(co: "Client", model: str, tokens: typing.Sequence[int]) -> typing.List[str]:
+    """Decodes a list of token ints to a list of token strings."""
+    tokenizer = get_hf_tokenizer(co, model)
+    return tokenizer.decode_batch([[token] for token in tokens], skip_special_tokens=False)
+
+
 def local_detokenize(co: "Client", model: str, tokens: typing.Sequence[int]) -> str:
     """Decodes a given list of tokens using a local tokenizer."""
     tokenizer = get_hf_tokenizer(co, model)
@@ -73,6 +79,12 @@ async def async_local_tokenize(co: "AsyncClient", model: str, text: str) -> typi
     return tokenizer.encode(text, add_special_tokens=False).ids
 
 
+async def async_local_tokens_to_token_strings(co: "Client", model: str, tokens: typing.Sequence[int]) -> typing.List[str]:
+    """Decodes a list of token ints to a list of token strings."""
+    tokenizer = await async_get_hf_tokenizer(co, model)
+    return tokenizer.decode_batch([[token] for token in tokens], skip_special_tokens=False)
+
+
 async def async_local_detokenize(co: "AsyncClient", model: str, tokens: typing.Sequence[int]) -> str:
     """Decodes a given list of tokens using a local tokenizer."""
     tokenizer = await async_get_hf_tokenizer(co, model)
diff --git a/tests/test_async_client.py b/tests/test_async_client.py
index a4cec71b8..7b92f92e9 100644
--- a/tests/test_async_client.py
+++ b/tests/test_async_client.py
@@ -383,7 +383,8 @@ async def test_local_tokenize(self) -> None:
             model="command",
             text="tokenize me! :D"
         )
-        print(response)
+        self.assertEqual(response.tokens, [10002, 2261, 2012, 8, 2792, 43])
+        self.assertEqual(response.token_strings, ["token", "ize", " me", "!", " :", "D"])
 
     async def test_local_detokenize(self) -> None:
         response = await self.co.detokenize(
diff --git a/tests/test_client.py b/tests/test_client.py
index 05f2b0911..1bd60b2d3 100644
--- a/tests/test_client.py
+++ b/tests/test_client.py
@@ -397,7 +397,8 @@ def test_local_tokenize(self) -> None:
             model="command",
             text="tokenize me! :D"
         )
-        print(response)
+        self.assertEqual(response.tokens, [10002, 2261, 2012, 8, 2792, 43])
+        self.assertEqual(response.token_strings, ["token", "ize", " me", "!", " :", "D"])
 
     def test_local_detokenize(self) -> None:
         response = co.detokenize(