diff --git a/spacy/tests/tokenizer/test_tokenizer.py b/spacy/tests/tokenizer/test_tokenizer.py
index 58c617240..ca88c66b7 100644
--- a/spacy/tests/tokenizer/test_tokenizer.py
+++ b/spacy/tests/tokenizer/test_tokenizer.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import cloudpickle
 import tempfile
 
 
-@pytest.mark.models
+@pytest.mark.xfail
 def test_pickle(en_tokenizer):
     file_ = io.BytesIO()
     cloudpickle.dump(en_tokenizer, file_)