diff --git a/litgpt/deploy/serve.py b/litgpt/deploy/serve.py
index af2f8af7f0..60d6472b36 100644
--- a/litgpt/deploy/serve.py
+++ b/litgpt/deploy/serve.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ def __init__(self,
                  quantize: Optional[Literal["bnb.nf4", "bnb.nf4-dq", "bnb.fp4", "bnb.fp4-dq", "bnb.int8"]] = None,
                  temperature: float = 0.8,
                  top_k: int = 200,
-                 max_generated_tokens: int = 30) -> None:
+                 max_new_tokens: int = 50) -> None:
 
         super().__init__()
         self.checkpoint_dir = checkpoint_dir
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ def __init__(self,
         self.quantize = quantize
         self.temperature = temperature
         self.top_k = top_k
-        self.max_generated_tokens = max_generated_tokens
+        self.max_new_tokens = max_new_tokens
 
     def setup(self, device: str) -> None:
         # Setup the model so it can be called in `predict`.
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ def decode_request(self, request: Dict[str, Any]) -> Any:
     def predict(self, inputs: torch.Tensor) -> Any:
         # Run the model on the input and return the output.
         prompt_length = inputs.size(0)
-        max_returned_tokens = prompt_length + self.max_generated_tokens
+        max_returned_tokens = prompt_length + self.max_new_tokens
 
         y = generate(
             self.model,
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ def run_server(
     quantize: Optional[Literal["bnb.nf4", "bnb.nf4-dq", "bnb.fp4", "bnb.fp4-dq", "bnb.int8"]] = None,
     temperature: float = 0.8,
     top_k: int = 200,
-    max_generated_tokens: int = 50,
+    max_new_tokens: int = 50,
     devices: int = 1,
     accelerator: str = "cuda",
     port: int = 8000
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ def run_server(
             Values below 1 decrease randomness.
         top_k: The size of the pool of potential next tokens. Values larger than 1 result in more novel
             generated text but can also lead to more incoherent texts.
-        max_generated_tokens: How many new tokens, in addition to the prompt length, to generate.
+        max_new_tokens: The number of generation steps to take.
         devices: How many devices/GPUs to use.
         accelerator: The type of accelerator to use. For example, "cuda" or "cpu".
         port: The network port number on which the model is configured to be served.
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ def run_server(
             quantize=quantize,
             temperature=temperature,
             top_k=top_k,
-            max_generated_tokens=max_generated_tokens,
+            max_new_tokens=max_new_tokens,
             ),
         accelerator=accelerator,
         devices=devices)