diff --git a/tests/models/language/pooling/test_token_classification.py b/tests/models/language/pooling/test_token_classification.py
index b84f05ae3099..341df02e74ef 100644
--- a/tests/models/language/pooling/test_token_classification.py
+++ b/tests/models/language/pooling/test_token_classification.py
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ def test_modernbert_models(
     for hf_output, vllm_output in zip(hf_outputs, vllm_outputs):
         hf_output = hf_output.detach().clone().cpu().float()
         vllm_output = vllm_output.detach().clone().cpu().float()
-        torch.testing.assert_close(hf_output, vllm_output, atol=1.2e-2, rtol=1e-3)
+        assert torch.allclose(hf_output, vllm_output, atol=1e-2)
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("model", ["bd2lcco/Qwen3-0.6B-finetuned"])