diff --git a/src/diffusers/pipelines/pipeline_utils.py b/src/diffusers/pipelines/pipeline_utils.py
index fb120ebc7d3b..b357fe6a8b29 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/pipelines/pipeline_utils.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/pipelines/pipeline_utils.py
@@ -342,7 +342,12 @@ def _get_pipeline_class(
         return class_obj
 
     diffusers_module = importlib.import_module(class_obj.__module__.split(".")[0])
-    pipeline_cls = getattr(diffusers_module, config["_class_name"])
+    class_name = config["_class_name"]
+
+    if class_name.startswith("Flax"):
+        class_name = class_name[4:]
+
+    pipeline_cls = getattr(diffusers_module, class_name)
 
     if load_connected_pipeline:
         from .auto_pipeline import _get_connected_pipeline
diff --git a/tests/pipelines/test_pipelines.py b/tests/pipelines/test_pipelines.py
index 927c5ec28518..5a0c300c60c4 100644
--- a/tests/pipelines/test_pipelines.py
+++ b/tests/pipelines/test_pipelines.py
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
     UniPCMultistepScheduler,
     logging,
 )
-from diffusers.pipelines.pipeline_utils import variant_compatible_siblings
+from diffusers.pipelines.pipeline_utils import _get_pipeline_class, variant_compatible_siblings
 from diffusers.schedulers.scheduling_utils import SCHEDULER_CONFIG_NAME
 from diffusers.utils import (
     CONFIG_NAME,
@@ -805,6 +805,14 @@ def test_download_ignore_files(self):
             assert not any(f in ["vae/diffusion_pytorch_model.bin", "text_encoder/config.json"] for f in files)
             assert len(files) == 14
 
+    def test_get_pipeline_class_from_flax(self):
+        flax_config = {"_class_name": "FlaxStableDiffusionPipeline"}
+        config = {"_class_name": "StableDiffusionPipeline"}
+
+        # when loading a PyTorch Pipeline from a FlaxPipeline `model_index.json`, e.g.: https://huggingface.co/hf-internal-testing/tiny-stable-diffusion-lms-pipe/blob/7a9063578b325779f0f1967874a6771caa973cad/model_index.json#L2
+        # we need to make sure that we don't load the Flax Pipeline class, but instead the PyTorch pipeline class
+        assert _get_pipeline_class(DiffusionPipeline, flax_config) == _get_pipeline_class(DiffusionPipeline, config)
+
 
 class CustomPipelineTests(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_load_custom_pipeline(self):