diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 94eab3a0..2082b140 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ regex = "1.10.6"
 serde-pyobject = "0.4.0"
 serde_json = { version = "1.0", features = ["preserve_order"] }
 serde = {version = "1.0", features = ["derive"]}
+bincode = "2.0.0-rc.3"
 # Fragile dependencies, minor updates often break the code
 hf-hub = "=0.3.2"
 tokenizers = { version = "=0.20.3", features = ["http"] }
diff --git a/src/index.rs b/src/index.rs
index cc1187e8..a756445c 100644
--- a/src/index.rs
+++ b/src/index.rs
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ use crate::prelude::{State, TransitionKey};
 use crate::regex::{get_vocabulary_transition_keys, state_scan_tokens};
 use crate::vocabulary::Vocabulary;
 use crate::{Error, Result};
+use bincode::{Decode, Encode};
 use std::collections::{HashMap, HashSet};
 
 #[derive(Debug)]
@@ -32,7 +33,7 @@ impl FSMInfo {
     }
 }
 
-#[derive(Debug)]
+#[derive(Debug, Encode, Decode)]
 pub struct Index {
     initial: u32,
     finals: HashSet<u32>,
diff --git a/src/python_bindings/mod.rs b/src/python_bindings/mod.rs
index 046d7ce9..55d979d1 100644
--- a/src/python_bindings/mod.rs
+++ b/src/python_bindings/mod.rs
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ use crate::regex::get_token_transition_keys;
 use crate::regex::get_vocabulary_transition_keys;
 use crate::regex::state_scan_tokens;
 use crate::regex::walk_fsm;
+use bincode::config;
 use pyo3::exceptions::PyValueError;
 use pyo3::prelude::*;
 use pyo3::types::PyDict;
@@ -72,7 +73,7 @@ impl PyFSMInfo {
     }
 }
 
-#[pyclass(name = "Index")]
+#[pyclass(name = "Index", module = "outlines_core.fsm.outlines_core_rs")]
 pub struct PyIndex(Index);
 
 #[pymethods]
@@ -89,6 +90,27 @@ impl PyIndex {
             .map_err(Into::into)
     }
 
+    fn __reduce__(&self) -> PyResult<(PyObject, (Vec<u8>,))> {
+        Python::with_gil(|py| {
+            let cls = PyModule::import_bound(py, "outlines_core.fsm.outlines_core_rs")?
+                .getattr("Index")?;
+            let binary_data: Vec<u8> = bincode::encode_to_vec(&self.0, config::standard())
+                .map_err(|e| {
+                    PyErr::new::<PyValueError, _>(format!("Serialization of Index failed: {}", e))
+                })?;
+            Ok((cls.getattr("from_binary")?.to_object(py), (binary_data,)))
+        })
+    }
+
+    #[staticmethod]
+    fn from_binary(binary_data: Vec<u8>) -> PyResult<Self> {
+        let (index, _): (Index, usize) =
+            bincode::decode_from_slice(&binary_data[..], config::standard()).map_err(|e| {
+                PyErr::new::<PyValueError, _>(format!("Deserialization of Index failed: {}", e))
+            })?;
+        Ok(PyIndex(index))
+    }
+
     fn get_allowed_tokens(&self, state: u32) -> Option<Vec<u32>> {
         self.0.allowed_tokens(state)
     }
diff --git a/tests/fsm/test_serialization.py b/tests/fsm/test_serialization.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d3c38365
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/fsm/test_serialization.py
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+import pickle
+
+import pytest
+from outlines_core.fsm.guide import RegexGuide
+from transformers import AutoTokenizer
+
+from tests.fsm.test_regex import TransformerTokenizer
+
+
+def test_serialization():
+    class MockTokenizer:
+        vocabulary = {"1": 1, "a": 2, "eos": 3}
+        special_tokens = {"eos"}
+        eos_token_id = 3
+
+        def convert_token_to_string(self, token):
+            return token
+
+    regex_str = "[1-9]"
+    tokenizer = MockTokenizer()
+
+    fsm = RegexGuide.from_regex(regex_str, tokenizer)
+
+    serialized = pickle.dumps(fsm)
+    deserialized = pickle.loads(serialized)
+
+    assert fsm.eos_tensor == deserialized.eos_tensor
+    assert fsm.initial_state == deserialized.initial_state
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "hf_tokenizer_uri, revision",
+    [
+        ("openai-community/gpt2", "607a30d783dfa663caf39e06633721c8d4cfcd7e"),
+        ("microsoft/phi-2", "ef382358ec9e382308935a992d908de099b64c23"),
+        ("Qwen/Qwen1.5-0.5B-Chat", "4d14e384a4b037942bb3f3016665157c8bcb70ea"),
+        (
+            "NousResearch/Hermes-2-Pro-Llama-3-8B",
+            "783fd50eb82d7f57758de033861f54d62dde234f",
+        ),
+    ],
+)
+def test_complex_serialization(hf_tokenizer_uri, revision):
+    # The combined regular expressions of a lexer state in a Python grammar
+    regex_str = "(?:(?:[0-9](?:(?:_)?[0-9])*(?:e|E)(?:(?:\\+|\\-))?[0-9](?:(?:_)?[0-9])*|(?:[0-9](?:(?:_)?[0-9])*\\.(?:[0-9](?:(?:_)?[0-9])*)?|\\.[0-9](?:(?:_)?[0-9])*)(?:(?:e|E)(?:(?:\\+|\\-))?[0-9](?:(?:_)?[0-9])*)?)|[0-9](?:(?:_)?[0-9])*)(?:J|j)|(?:[0-9](?:(?:_)?[0-9])*(?:e|E)(?:(?:\\+|\\-))?[0-9](?:(?:_)?[0-9])*|(?:[0-9](?:(?:_)?[0-9])*\\.(?:[0-9](?:(?:_)?[0-9])*)?|\\.[0-9](?:(?:_)?[0-9])*)(?:(?:e|E)(?:(?:\\+|\\-))?[0-9](?:(?:_)?[0-9])*)?)|0(?:x|X)(?:(?:_)?(?:[0-9]|[a-f]|[A-F]))+|0(?:b|B)(?:(?:_)?[0-1])+|0(?:o|O)(?:(?:_)?[0-7])+|(?:(?i:([ubf]?r?|r[ubf])('([^\\\\']|.)*?'))|(?i:([ubf]?r?|r[ubf])(\"([^\\\"]|.)*?\")))|(?:(?:\r?\n[\t ]*|#[^\n]*))+|[1-9](?:(?:_)?[0-9])*|\\\\[\t \x0c]*\r?\n|continue|nonlocal|assert|global|import|lambda|return|async|await|break|class|False|match|raise|while|yield|case|from|None|pass|True|with|def|del|for|not|try|if|[^\\W\\d]\\w*|#[^\n]*|[\t \x0c]+|\\.\\.\\.|@|\\{|\\(|\\[|\\-|\\+|\\*|\\~"
+
+    tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(hf_tokenizer_uri, revision=revision)
+    tokenizer = TransformerTokenizer(tokenizer)
+
+    fsm = RegexGuide.from_regex(regex_str, tokenizer)
+
+    serialized = pickle.dumps(fsm)
+    deserialized = pickle.loads(serialized)
+
+    assert fsm.eos_tensor == deserialized.eos_tensor
+    assert fsm.initial_state == deserialized.initial_state