diff --git a/core/src/idx/ft/analyzer/mod.rs b/core/src/idx/ft/analyzer/mod.rs
index 26a3be3d..d579866f 100644
--- a/core/src/idx/ft/analyzer/mod.rs
+++ b/core/src/idx/ft/analyzer/mod.rs
@@ -278,13 +278,16 @@ impl Analyzer {
 				});
 			}
 		}
-		if let Some(t) = &self.az.tokenizers {
-			if !input.is_empty() {
-				let t = Tokenizer::tokenize(t, input);
-				return Filter::apply_filters(t, &self.filters, stage);
-			}
+		if input.is_empty() {
+			return Ok(Tokens::new(input));
 		}
-		Ok(Tokens::new(input))
+
+		let tokens = if let Some(t) = &self.az.tokenizers {
+			Tokenizer::tokenize(t, input)
+		} else {
+			Tokenizer::tokenize(&[], input)
+		};
+		Filter::apply_filters(tokens, &self.filters, stage)
 	}
 
 	/// Used for exposing the analyzer as the native function `search::analyze`
@@ -351,4 +354,9 @@ mod tests {
 		let tokens = get_analyzer_tokens(def, input).await;
 		assert_eq!(tokens.list(), expected);
 	}
+
+	#[tokio::test]
+	async fn test_no_tokenizer() {
+		test_analyzer("ANALYZER test FILTERS lowercase", "ab", &["ab"]).await;
+	}
 }
diff --git a/sdk/tests/matches.rs b/sdk/tests/matches.rs
index aeec7e3f..e54c81f6 100644
--- a/sdk/tests/matches.rs
+++ b/sdk/tests/matches.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 mod parse;
 use parse::Parse;
 mod helpers;
-use crate::helpers::skip_ok;
+use crate::helpers::{skip_ok, Test};
 use helpers::new_ds;
 use surrealdb::dbs::Session;
 use surrealdb::err::Error;
@@ -704,3 +704,17 @@ async fn select_where_matches_mixing_indexes() -> Result<(), Error> {
 	assert_eq!(format!("{:#}", tmp), format!("{:#}", val));
 	Ok(())
 }
+
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn select_where_matches_analyser_without_tokenizer() -> Result<(), Error> {
+	let sql = r"
+		DEFINE ANALYZER az FILTERS lowercase,ngram(1,5);
+		CREATE t:1 SET text = 'ab';
+		DEFINE INDEX search_idx ON TABLE t COLUMNS text SEARCH ANALYZER az BM25 HIGHLIGHTS;
+		SELECT * FROM t WHERE text @@ 'a';";
+	let mut t = Test::new(sql).await?;
+	t.expect_size(4)?;
+	t.skip_ok(3)?;
+	t.expect_val("[{ id: t:1, text: 'ab' }]")?;
+	Ok(())
+}