diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5d9bcd3..d67c579 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ MODEL_TYPE: supports LlamaCpp or GPT4All
 PERSIST_DIRECTORY: is the folder you want your vectorstore in
 MODEL_PATH: Path to your GPT4All or LlamaCpp supported LLM
 MODEL_N_CTX: Maximum token limit for the LLM model
+MODEL_N_BATCH: Number of tokens in the prompt that are fed into the model at a time. Optimal value differs a lot depending on the model (8 works well for GPT4All, and 1024 is better for LlamaCpp)
 EMBEDDINGS_MODEL_NAME: SentenceTransformers embeddings model name (see https://www.sbert.net/docs/pretrained_models.html)
 TARGET_SOURCE_CHUNKS: The amount of chunks (sources) that will be used to answer a question
 ```
diff --git a/example.env b/example.env
index 0afe836..143db76 100644
--- a/example.env
+++ b/example.env
@@ -3,4 +3,5 @@ MODEL_TYPE=GPT4All
 MODEL_PATH=models/ggml-gpt4all-j-v1.3-groovy.bin
 EMBEDDINGS_MODEL_NAME=all-MiniLM-L6-v2
 MODEL_N_CTX=1000
+MODEL_N_BATCH=8
 TARGET_SOURCE_CHUNKS=4
diff --git a/privateGPT.py b/privateGPT.py
index bd03d07..a47a745 100755
--- a/privateGPT.py
+++ b/privateGPT.py
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ persist_directory = os.environ.get('PERSIST_DIRECTORY')
 model_type = os.environ.get('MODEL_TYPE')
 model_path = os.environ.get('MODEL_PATH')
 model_n_ctx = os.environ.get('MODEL_N_CTX')
+model_n_batch = int(os.environ.get('MODEL_N_BATCH',8))
 target_source_chunks = int(os.environ.get('TARGET_SOURCE_CHUNKS',4))
 
 from constants import CHROMA_SETTINGS
@@ -32,9 +33,9 @@ def main():
     # Prepare the LLM
     match model_type:
         case "LlamaCpp":
-            llm = LlamaCpp(model_path=model_path, n_ctx=model_n_ctx, callbacks=callbacks, verbose=False)
+            llm = LlamaCpp(model_path=model_path, n_ctx=model_n_ctx, n_batch=model_n_batch, callbacks=callbacks, verbose=False)
         case "GPT4All":
-            llm = GPT4All(model=model_path, n_ctx=model_n_ctx, backend='gptj', callbacks=callbacks, verbose=False)
+            llm = GPT4All(model=model_path, n_ctx=model_n_ctx, backend='gptj', n_batch=model_n_batch, callbacks=callbacks, verbose=False)
         case _default:
             print(f"Model {model_type} not supported!")
             exit;