diff --git a/vta/tutorials/frontend/deploy_classification.py b/vta/tutorials/frontend/deploy_classification.py
index b72301d60c0c..aae994042e5e 100644
--- a/vta/tutorials/frontend/deploy_classification.py
+++ b/vta/tutorials/frontend/deploy_classification.py
@@ -63,6 +63,8 @@
 
 # Make sure that TVM was compiled with RPC=1
 assert tvm.runtime.enabled("rpc")
+# Make sure vta is available
+assert tvm.get_global_func("tvm.contrib.vta.init", True) is not None
 
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 # Define the platform and model targets