diff --git a/src/ipc/shared/language_model_helpers.ts b/src/ipc/shared/language_model_helpers.ts
index b9dfe48..1a1097d 100644
--- a/src/ipc/shared/language_model_helpers.ts
+++ b/src/ipc/shared/language_model_helpers.ts
@@ -44,7 +44,8 @@ export const MODEL_OPTIONS: Record<string, ModelOption[]> = {
       name: "o3-mini",
       displayName: "o3 mini",
       description: "Reasoning model",
-      maxOutputTokens: 100_000,
+      // See o4-mini comment below for why we set this to 32k
+      maxOutputTokens: 32_000,
       contextWindow: 200_000,
     },
     // https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/o4-mini
@@ -52,7 +53,10 @@ export const MODEL_OPTIONS: Record<string, ModelOption[]> = {
       name: "o4-mini",
       displayName: "o4 mini",
       description: "Reasoning model",
-      maxOutputTokens: 100_000,
+      // Technically the max output tokens is 100k, *however* if the user has a lot of input tokens,
+      // then setting a high max output token will cause the request to fail because
+      // the max output tokens is *included* in the context window limit.
+      maxOutputTokens: 32_000,
       contextWindow: 200_000,
     },
   ],