diff --git a/router/src/infer/mod.rs b/router/src/infer/mod.rs
index cdce8188303..d92adc4042f 100644
--- a/router/src/infer/mod.rs
+++ b/router/src/infer/mod.rs
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ use crate::validation::{ValidGenerateRequest, Validation, ValidationError};
 use crate::Tool;
 use crate::{
     ChatTemplateVersions, FinishReason, GenerateRequest, HubProcessorConfig, HubTokenizerConfig,
-    Message, PrefillToken, Token,
+    Message, PrefillToken, TextMessage, Token,
 };
 use async_stream::stream;
 use async_trait::async_trait;
@@ -68,17 +68,29 @@ impl Infer {
         tokenizer_config: HubTokenizerConfig,
         processor_config: HubProcessorConfig,
     ) -> Self {
-        let chat_template = tokenizer_config
-            .chat_template
-            .or(processor_config.chat_template)
-            .and_then(|t| match t {
-                ChatTemplateVersions::Single(template) => Some(template),
-                ChatTemplateVersions::Multiple(templates) => templates
-                    .into_iter()
-                    .find(|t| t.name == "default")
-                    .map(|t| t.template),
-            })
-            .map(|t| ChatTemplate::new(t, tokenizer_config.bos_token, tokenizer_config.eos_token));
+        let chat_template = if matches!(
+            processor_config.processor_class.as_deref(),
+            Some("Llama4Processor")
+                | Some("LlavaNextProcessor")
+                | Some("Idefics2Processor")
+                | Some("Idefics3Processor")
+        ) {
+            None // Do not use chat_template
+        } else {
+            tokenizer_config
+                .chat_template
+                .or(processor_config.chat_template)
+                .and_then(|t| match t {
+                    ChatTemplateVersions::Single(template) => Some(template),
+                    ChatTemplateVersions::Multiple(templates) => templates
+                        .into_iter()
+                        .find(|t| t.name == "default")
+                        .map(|t| t.template),
+                })
+                .map(|t| {
+                    ChatTemplate::new(t, tokenizer_config.bos_token, tokenizer_config.eos_token)
+                })
+        };
 
         // Inference limit with a semaphore
         let semaphore = Arc::new(Semaphore::new(max_concurrent_requests));
@@ -229,6 +241,15 @@ impl Infer {
         messages: Vec<Message>,
         tools_and_prompt: Option<(Vec<Tool>, String)>,
     ) -> Result<String, InferError> {
+        if self.chat_template.is_none() {
+            let textmessages: Vec<TextMessage> = messages.into_iter().map(|c| c.into()).collect();
+            let message_str = textmessages
+                .iter()
+                .map(|msg| msg.content.clone()) // Extract content from each `TextMessage`
+                .collect::<Vec<String>>() // Collect all content into a vector
+                .join("\n"); // Join all content into a single string separated by newlines
+            return Ok(message_str);
+        }
         self.chat_template
             .as_ref()
             .ok_or_else(|| InferError::TemplateError(ErrorKind::TemplateNotFound.into()))?
diff --git a/router/src/lib.rs b/router/src/lib.rs
index e5622fc22e8..0e51bb25aa4 100644
--- a/router/src/lib.rs
+++ b/router/src/lib.rs
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ pub struct Llama4Processor {
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, Deserialize, Default)]
 pub struct HubProcessorConfig {
     pub chat_template: Option<ChatTemplateVersions>,
-    pub image_seq_len: usize,
+    pub image_seq_len: Option<usize>,
     pub processor_class: Option<String>,
 }
 
@@ -1008,7 +1008,7 @@ impl ChatRequest {
         Ok((
             GenerateRequest {
                 inputs: inputs.to_string(),
-                add_special_tokens: false,
+                add_special_tokens: infer.chat_template.is_none(),
                 parameters: GenerateParameters {
                     best_of: None,
                     temperature,