diff --git a/TROUBLESHOOTING.md b/TROUBLESHOOTING.md
index a126eafbc..9bf242381 100644
--- a/TROUBLESHOOTING.md
+++ b/TROUBLESHOOTING.md
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ docker run -d --network=host -v open-webui:/app/backend/data -e OLLAMA_BASE_URL=
 
 ### Error on Slow Reponses for Ollama
 
-Open WebUI has a default timeout of 15 minutes for Ollama to finish generating the response. If needed, this can be adjusted via the environment variable AIOHTTP_CLIENT_TIMEOUT, which sets the timeout in seconds.
+Open WebUI has a default timeout of 5 minutes for Ollama to finish generating the response. If needed, this can be adjusted via the environment variable AIOHTTP_CLIENT_TIMEOUT, which sets the timeout in seconds.
 
 ### General Connection Errors
 
diff --git a/backend/config.py b/backend/config.py
index e6b934f04..a6dea4007 100644
--- a/backend/config.py
+++ b/backend/config.py
@@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ OLLAMA_API_BASE_URL = os.environ.get(
 )
 
 OLLAMA_BASE_URL = os.environ.get("OLLAMA_BASE_URL", "")
-AIOHTTP_CLIENT_TIMEOUT = int(os.environ.get("AIOHTTP_CLIENT_TIMEOUT", "900"))
+AIOHTTP_CLIENT_TIMEOUT = int(os.environ.get("AIOHTTP_CLIENT_TIMEOUT", "300"))
 K8S_FLAG = os.environ.get("K8S_FLAG", "")
 USE_OLLAMA_DOCKER = os.environ.get("USE_OLLAMA_DOCKER", "false")