diff --git a/searchcore/src/vespa/searchcore/proton/attribute/flushableattribute.cpp b/searchcore/src/vespa/searchcore/proton/attribute/flushableattribute.cpp
index 11f3f759126e..bc31c05247f7 100644
--- a/searchcore/src/vespa/searchcore/proton/attribute/flushableattribute.cpp
+++ b/searchcore/src/vespa/searchcore/proton/attribute/flushableattribute.cpp
@@ -173,8 +173,7 @@ FlushableAttribute::FlushableAttribute(AttributeVectorSP attr,
 {
     _lastStats.setPathElementsToLog(8);
     auto &config = attr->getConfig();
-    if (config.basicType() == search::attribute::BasicType::Type::TENSOR &&
-        config.tensorType().is_dense() && config.hnsw_index_params().has_value())
+    if (config.basicType() == search::attribute::BasicType::Type::TENSOR && config.hnsw_index_params().has_value())
     {
         _replay_operation_cost = 400.0; // replaying operations to hnsw index is 400 times more expensive than reading from tls
     }