diff --git a/src/diffusers/pipelines/mochi/pipeline_mochi.py b/src/diffusers/pipelines/mochi/pipeline_mochi.py
index 435470064633..a3028c50d8b7 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/pipelines/mochi/pipeline_mochi.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/pipelines/mochi/pipeline_mochi.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
 from ...callbacks import MultiPipelineCallbacks, PipelineCallback
 from ...loaders import Mochi1LoraLoaderMixin
-from ...models.autoencoders import AutoencoderKL
+from ...models.autoencoders import AutoencoderKLMochi
 from ...models.transformers import MochiTransformer3DModel
 from ...schedulers import FlowMatchEulerDiscreteScheduler
 from ...utils import (
@@ -151,8 +151,8 @@ class MochiPipeline(DiffusionPipeline, Mochi1LoraLoaderMixin):
             Conditional Transformer architecture to denoise the encoded video latents.
         scheduler ([`FlowMatchEulerDiscreteScheduler`]):
             A scheduler to be used in combination with `transformer` to denoise the encoded image latents.
-        vae ([`AutoencoderKL`]):
-            Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) Model to encode and decode images to and from latent representations.
+        vae ([`AutoencoderKLMochi`]):
+            Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) Model to encode and decode videos to and from latent representations.
         text_encoder ([`T5EncoderModel`]):
             [T5](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/en/model_doc/t5#transformers.T5EncoderModel), specifically
             the [google/t5-v1_1-xxl](https://huggingface.co/google/t5-v1_1-xxl) variant.
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ class MochiPipeline(DiffusionPipeline, Mochi1LoraLoaderMixin):
     def __init__(
         self,
         scheduler: FlowMatchEulerDiscreteScheduler,
-        vae: AutoencoderKL,
+        vae: AutoencoderKLMochi,
         text_encoder: T5EncoderModel,
         tokenizer: T5TokenizerFast,
         transformer: MochiTransformer3DModel,