diff --git a/modules/shared.py b/modules/shared.py
index 2fa90dd7..a08f134f 100644
--- a/modules/shared.py
+++ b/modules/shared.py
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ settings = {
     'skip_special_tokens': True,
     'truncation_length': 2048,
     'truncation_length_min': 0,
-    'truncation_length_max': 4096,
+    'truncation_length_max': 8192,
     'mode': 'cai-chat',
     'instruction_template': 'None',
     'chat_prompt_size': 2048,
diff --git a/settings-template.json b/settings-template.json
index bfcd7a91..298e4421 100644
--- a/settings-template.json
+++ b/settings-template.json
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
     "skip_special_tokens": true,
     "truncation_length": 2048,
     "truncation_length_min": 0,
-    "truncation_length_max": 4096,
+    "truncation_length_max": 8192,
     "mode": "cai-chat",
     "instruction_template": "None",
     "chat_prompt_size": 2048,