diff --git a/examples/server/public_simplechat/simplechat.js b/examples/server/public_simplechat/simplechat.js
index a93a89105..303886b26 100644
--- a/examples/server/public_simplechat/simplechat.js
+++ b/examples/server/public_simplechat/simplechat.js
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ let gUsageMsg = `
 // Add needed fields wrt json object to be sent wrt LLM web services completions endpoint.
 let gChatRequestOptions = {
     "temperature": 0.7,
-    "max_tokens": 2048
+    "max_tokens": 512
 };
 
 class SimpleChat {