diff --git a/backends/exllamav2/model.py b/backends/exllamav2/model.py
index 3408c2f..0cf1076 100644
--- a/backends/exllamav2/model.py
+++ b/backends/exllamav2/model.py
@@ -49,11 +49,7 @@ from common.gen_logging import (
 from common.health import HealthManager
 from common.multimodal import MultimodalEmbeddingWrapper
 from common.sampling import BaseSamplerRequest
-from common.templating import (
-    PromptTemplate,
-    TemplateLoadError,
-    find_template_from_model,
-)
+from common.templating import PromptTemplate, find_prompt_template
 from common.transformers_utils import GenerationConfig
 from common.utils import calculate_rope_alpha, coalesce, unwrap
 
@@ -322,7 +318,7 @@ class ExllamaV2Container(BaseModelContainer):
             self.cache_size = self.config.max_seq_len
 
         # Try to set prompt template
-        self.prompt_template = await self.find_prompt_template(
+        self.prompt_template = await find_prompt_template(
             kwargs.get("prompt_template"), model_directory
         )
 
@@ -383,62 +379,6 @@ class ExllamaV2Container(BaseModelContainer):
         # Return the created instance
         return self
 
-    async def find_prompt_template(self, prompt_template_name, model_directory):
-        """Tries to find a prompt template using various methods."""
-
-        logger.info("Attempting to load a prompt template if present.")
-
-        find_template_functions = [
-            lambda: PromptTemplate.from_model_json(
-                pathlib.Path(self.config.model_dir) / "chat_template.json",
-                key="chat_template",
-            ),
-            lambda: PromptTemplate.from_model_json(
-                pathlib.Path(self.config.model_dir) / "tokenizer_config.json",
-                key="chat_template",
-            ),
-            lambda: PromptTemplate.from_file(find_template_from_model(model_directory)),
-        ]
-
-        # Find the template in the model directory if it exists
-        model_dir_template_path = (
-            pathlib.Path(self.config.model_dir) / "tabby_template.jinja"
-        )
-        if model_dir_template_path.exists():
-            find_template_functions[:0] = [
-                lambda: PromptTemplate.from_file(model_dir_template_path)
-            ]
-
-        # Add lookup from prompt template name if provided
-        if prompt_template_name:
-            find_template_functions[:0] = [
-                lambda: PromptTemplate.from_file(
-                    pathlib.Path("templates") / prompt_template_name
-                ),
-                lambda: PromptTemplate.from_model_json(
-                    pathlib.Path(self.config.model_dir) / "tokenizer_config.json",
-                    key="chat_template",
-                    name=prompt_template_name,
-                ),
-            ]
-
-        # Continue on exception since functions are tried as they fail
-        for template_func in find_template_functions:
-            try:
-                prompt_template = await template_func()
-                if prompt_template is not None:
-                    return prompt_template
-            except TemplateLoadError as e:
-                logger.warning(f"TemplateLoadError: {str(e)}")
-                continue
-            except Exception:
-                logger.error(traceback.format_exc())
-                logger.warning(
-                    "An unexpected error happened when trying to load the template. "
-                    "Trying other methods."
-                )
-                continue
-
     def get_model_parameters(self):
         model_params = {
             "name": self.model_dir.name,
diff --git a/common/templating.py b/common/templating.py
index 8ea4fd1..ff21300 100644
--- a/common/templating.py
+++ b/common/templating.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 """Small replication of AutoTokenizer's chat template system for efficiency"""
 
+import traceback
 import aiofiles
 import json
 import pathlib
@@ -211,3 +212,58 @@ def find_template_from_model(model_path: pathlib.Path):
             return template_name
         else:
             raise TemplateLoadError("Could not find template from model name.")
+
+
+async def find_prompt_template(template_name, model_dir: pathlib.Path):
+    """Tries to find a prompt template using various methods."""
+
+    logger.info("Attempting to load a prompt template if present.")
+
+    find_template_functions = [
+        lambda: PromptTemplate.from_model_json(
+            model_dir / "chat_template.json",
+            key="chat_template",
+        ),
+        lambda: PromptTemplate.from_model_json(
+            model_dir / "tokenizer_config.json",
+            key="chat_template",
+        ),
+        lambda: PromptTemplate.from_file(find_template_from_model(model_dir)),
+    ]
+
+    # Find the template in the model directory if it exists
+    model_dir_template_path = model_dir / "tabby_template.jinja"
+    if model_dir_template_path.exists():
+        find_template_functions[:0] = [
+            lambda: PromptTemplate.from_file(model_dir_template_path)
+        ]
+
+    # Add lookup from prompt template name if provided
+    if template_name:
+        find_template_functions[:0] = [
+            lambda: PromptTemplate.from_file(
+                pathlib.Path("templates") / template_name
+            ),
+            lambda: PromptTemplate.from_model_json(
+                model_dir / "tokenizer_config.json",
+                key="chat_template",
+                name=template_name,
+            ),
+        ]
+
+    # Continue on exception since functions are tried as they fail
+    for template_func in find_template_functions:
+        try:
+            prompt_template = await template_func()
+            if prompt_template is not None:
+                return prompt_template
+        except TemplateLoadError as e:
+            logger.warning(f"TemplateLoadError: {str(e)}")
+            continue
+        except Exception:
+            logger.error(traceback.format_exc())
+            logger.warning(
+                "An unexpected error happened when trying to load the template. "
+                "Trying other methods."
+            )
+            continue