diff --git a/pandas/tests/test_frame.py b/pandas/tests/test_frame.py
index 8c9233c1d687b..8c4efcc35d67f 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/test_frame.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/test_frame.py
@@ -12161,8 +12161,8 @@ def test_quantile(self):
 
         result = df.quantile([.5, .75], axis=1)
         expected = DataFrame({1: [1.5, 1.75], 2: [2.5, 2.75],
-                              3: [3.5, 3.75]}, index=["0.5", "0.75"])
-        assert_frame_equal(result, expected)
+                              3: [3.5, 3.75]}, index=[0.5, 0.75])
+        assert_frame_equal(result, expected, check_index_type=True)
 
         # We may want to break API in the future to change this
         # so that we exclude non-numeric along the same axis