diff --git a/tests/plugins_tests/test_io_processor_plugins.py b/tests/plugins_tests/test_io_processor_plugins.py
index e4a60f95eb878..1a024118fcfe7 100644
--- a/tests/plugins_tests/test_io_processor_plugins.py
+++ b/tests/plugins_tests/test_io_processor_plugins.py
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ def test_prithvi_mae_plugin_offline(vllm_runner, model_name: str):
         model_name,
         runner="pooling",
         skip_tokenizer_init=True,
+        enable_mm_embeds=True,
         trust_remote_code=True,
         enforce_eager=True,
         # Limit the maximum number of parallel requests