diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 405392787e3d..f3ebb6135e25 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -121,12 +121,8 @@ endif
 	rm data/MITIE*.bz2
 
 prepare-transformers:
-	if [ $(OS) = "Windows_NT" ]; then HOME_DIR="$(HOMEDRIVE)$(HOMEPATH)"; else HOME_DIR=$(HOME); fi;\
-	CACHE_DIR=$$HOME_DIR/.cache/torch/transformers;\
-	mkdir -p "$$CACHE_DIR";\
-	i=0;\
-	while read -r URL; do read -r CACHE_FILE; if { [ $(CI) ]  &&  [ $$i -gt 4 ]; } || ! [ $(CI) ]; then wget -nv $$URL -O $$CACHE_DIR/$$CACHE_FILE; fi; i=$$((i + 1)); done < "data/test/hf_transformers_models.txt"
-
+	while read -r MODEL; do poetry run python scripts/download_transformer_model.py $$MODEL ; done < data/test/hf_transformers_models.txt
+	if ! [ $(CI) ]; then poetry run python scripts/download_transformer_model.py rasa/LaBSE; fi
 prepare-tests-macos:
 	brew install wget graphviz || true
 
@@ -178,7 +174,7 @@ test-nlu-predictors: prepare-spacy prepare-mitie test-marker
 
 test-full-model-training: PYTEST_MARKER=category_full_model_training and (not flaky)
 test-full-model-training: DD_ARGS := $(or $(DD_ARGS),)
-test-full-model-training: prepare-spacy prepare-mitie test-marker
+test-full-model-training: prepare-spacy prepare-mitie prepare-transformers test-marker
 
 test-other-unit-tests: PYTEST_MARKER=category_other_unit_tests and (not flaky)
 test-other-unit-tests: DD_ARGS := $(or $(DD_ARGS),)
@@ -198,7 +194,7 @@ test-gh-actions:
 test-marker: clean
     # OMP_NUM_THREADS can improve overall performance using one thread by process (on tensorflow), avoiding overload
 	# TF_CPP_MIN_LOG_LEVEL=2 sets C code log level for tensorflow to error suppressing lower log events
-	OMP_NUM_THREADS=1 TF_CPP_MIN_LOG_LEVEL=2 poetry run pytest tests -n $(JOBS) --dist loadscope -m "$(PYTEST_MARKER)" --cov rasa --ignore $(INTEGRATION_TEST_FOLDER) $(DD_ARGS)
+	TRANSFORMERS_OFFLINE=1 OMP_NUM_THREADS=1 TF_CPP_MIN_LOG_LEVEL=2 poetry run pytest tests -n $(JOBS) --dist loadscope -m "$(PYTEST_MARKER)" --cov rasa --ignore $(INTEGRATION_TEST_FOLDER) $(DD_ARGS)
 
 generate-pending-changelog:
 	poetry run python -c "from scripts import release; release.generate_changelog('major.minor.patch')"
diff --git a/data/test/hf_transformers_models.txt b/data/test/hf_transformers_models.txt
index 6c474cddb083..ab931e036c4f 100644
--- a/data/test/hf_transformers_models.txt
+++ b/data/test/hf_transformers_models.txt
@@ -1,54 +1,9 @@
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+bert-base-chinese
+openai-gpt
+gpt2
+xlnet-base-cased
+bert-base-uncased
+roberta-base
+distilbert-base-uncased
+camembert-base
+sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2
diff --git a/scripts/download_transformer_model.py b/scripts/download_transformer_model.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..534befd4205d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/download_transformer_model.py
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download
+import sys
+
+print(f"Downloading model files for {sys.argv[1]}...")
+snapshot_download(
+    repo_id=sys.argv[1], allow_patterns=["*.txt", "*.json", "*.h5", "*.model"]
+)