diff --git a/tests/models/decoder_only/language/test_hybrid.py b/tests/models/decoder_only/language/test_hybrid.py
index 5931c25b8d80..e5e0c28ae2d5 100644
--- a/tests/models/decoder_only/language/test_hybrid.py
+++ b/tests/models/decoder_only/language/test_hybrid.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ HYBRID_MODELS = [
     # not compatible with pip-compile.
     "pfnet/plamo-2-1b",
     "Zyphra/Zamba2-1.2B-instruct",
-    "ibm-ai-platform/Bamba-9B",
+    "hmellor/bamba-tiny-random",
 ]
 
 # Avoid OOM
diff --git a/tests/models/registry.py b/tests/models/registry.py
index 75832d83d725..f17f70189a9b 100644
--- a/tests/models/registry.py
+++ b/tests/models/registry.py
@@ -120,7 +120,8 @@ _TEXT_GENERATION_EXAMPLE_MODELS = {
                                          trust_remote_code=True),
     "BaichuanForCausalLM": _HfExamplesInfo("baichuan-inc/Baichuan2-7B-chat",
                                          trust_remote_code=True),
-    "BambaForCausalLM": _HfExamplesInfo("ibm-ai-platform/Bamba-9B"),
+    "BambaForCausalLM": _HfExamplesInfo("ibm-ai-platform/Bamba-9B",
+                                        extras={"tiny": "hmellor/bamba-tiny-random"}),  # noqa: E501
     "BloomForCausalLM": _HfExamplesInfo("bigscience/bloom-560m",
                                         {"1b": "bigscience/bloomz-1b1"}),
     "ChatGLMModel": _HfExamplesInfo("THUDM/chatglm3-6b",
diff --git a/tests/v1/test_oracle.py b/tests/v1/test_oracle.py
index 94c8ad7c94f6..c34c673e985e 100644
--- a/tests/v1/test_oracle.py
+++ b/tests/v1/test_oracle.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ UNSUPPORTED_MODELS_V1 = [
     "openai/whisper-large-v3",  # transcription
     "facebook/bart-large-cnn",  # encoder decoder
     "mistralai/Mamba-Codestral-7B-v0.1",  # mamba
-    "ibm-ai-platform/Bamba-9B",  # hybrid
+    "hmellor/bamba-tiny-random",  # hybrid
     "BAAI/bge-m3",  # embedding
 ]