diff --git a/optimum/onnxruntime/utils.py b/optimum/onnxruntime/utils.py
index be395927cc..be7ec1f5d5 100644
--- a/optimum/onnxruntime/utils.py
+++ b/optimum/onnxruntime/utils.py
@@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ class ORTConfigManager:
         "marian": "bart",
         "mbart": "bart",
         "mistral": "gpt2",
+        "modernbert": "bert",
         "mpnet": "bert",
         "mt5": "bart",
         "m2m-100": "bart",
diff --git a/optimum/utils/normalized_config.py b/optimum/utils/normalized_config.py
index 3f497b5920..5132143a23 100644
--- a/optimum/utils/normalized_config.py
+++ b/optimum/utils/normalized_config.py
@@ -264,6 +264,7 @@ class NormalizedConfigManager:
         "mbart": BartLikeNormalizedTextConfig,
         "mistral": NormalizedTextConfigWithGQA,
         "mixtral": NormalizedTextConfigWithGQA,
+        "modernbert": NormalizedTextConfig,
         "mpnet": NormalizedTextConfig,
         "mpt": MPTNormalizedTextConfig,
         "mt5": T5LikeNormalizedTextConfig,