diff --git a/meson_options.txt b/meson_options.txt
index 7f22cd43..63713c52 100644
--- a/meson_options.txt
+++ b/meson_options.txt
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ option('passwdqc', type : 'string', description : 'enable password quality check
 option('pwquality', type : 'boolean', description : 'password quality checking using pwquality library', value : false)
 option('ssh-token', type : 'boolean', description : 'LUKS2 ssh-token', value : true)
 option('static-cryptsetup', type : 'boolean', description : 'enable build of static version of tools', value : false)
+option('systemd-tokens-test', type : 'boolean', description : 'compile systemd tokens and test using them from cryptsetup', value : false)
 option('tmpfilesdir', type : 'string', description : 'override default path to directory with systemd temporary files')
 option('udev', type : 'boolean', description : 'udev support', value : true)
 option('veritysetup', type : 'boolean', description : 'veritysetup support', value : true)
diff --git a/tests/meson.build b/tests/meson.build
index e6341e77..de31c050 100644
--- a/tests/meson.build
+++ b/tests/meson.build
@@ -471,7 +471,7 @@ if get_option('ssh-token') and not enable_static
         ])
 endif
 
-if get_option('external-tokens') and not enable_static
+if get_option('external-tokens') and get_option('systemd-tokens-test') and not enable_static
     test('systemd-test-plugin',
         find_program('systemd-test-plugin'),
         workdir: meson.current_build_dir(),