diff --git a/pages/api/chat.ts b/pages/api/chat.ts
index cd81e06..09c0aaf 100644
--- a/pages/api/chat.ts
+++ b/pages/api/chat.ts
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ const handler = async (req: Request): Promise<Response> => {
       const message = messages[i];
       const tokens = encoding.encode(message.content);
 
-      if (tokenCount + tokens.length > model.tokenLimit) {
+      if (tokenCount + tokens.length + 1000 > model.tokenLimit) {
         break;
       }
       tokenCount += tokens.length;