diff --git a/examples/serve/genai_perf_client.sh b/examples/serve/genai_perf_client.sh
index 91a6308995c..0e7a75ae6c7 100755
--- a/examples/serve/genai_perf_client.sh
+++ b/examples/serve/genai_perf_client.sh
@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
 #! /usr/bin/env bash
 
+# Set to TinyLlama/TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0 to download from Hugging Face.
+# Or set to the path of local tokenizer directory.
+TOKENIZER_PATH_OR_NAME="/scratch.trt_llm_data/llm-models/llama-models-v2/TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0"
 genai-perf profile \
     -m TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0 \
-    --tokenizer TinyLlama/TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0 \
+    --tokenizer $TOKENIZER_PATH_OR_NAME \
     --endpoint-type chat \
     --random-seed 123 \
     --synthetic-input-tokens-mean 128 \
diff --git a/examples/serve/genai_perf_client_for_multimodal.sh b/examples/serve/genai_perf_client_for_multimodal.sh
index a04f424549f..9611a01fdae 100644
--- a/examples/serve/genai_perf_client_for_multimodal.sh
+++ b/examples/serve/genai_perf_client_for_multimodal.sh
@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
 #! /usr/bin/env bash
 
+# Set to Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct to download from Hugging Face.
+# Or set to the path of local tokenizer directory.
+TOKENIZER_PATH_OR_NAME="/scratch.trt_llm_data/llm-models/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct"
 genai-perf profile \
     -m Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct \
-    --tokenizer Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct \
+    --tokenizer $TOKENIZER_PATH_OR_NAME \
     --endpoint-type multimodal \
     --random-seed 123 \
     --image-width-mean 64 \