diff --git a/scaledown/compressor/scaledown_compressor.py b/scaledown/compressor/scaledown_compressor.py
index ea0a0cd..de2a075 100644
--- a/scaledown/compressor/scaledown_compressor.py
+++ b/scaledown/compressor/scaledown_compressor.py
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ def _compress_single(self, context, prompt, max_tokens=None, **kwargs) -> Compre
                 "temperature": self.temperature,
                 "preserve_keywords": self.preserve_keywords,
                 "preserve_words": self.preserve_words,
-                "max_tokens": max_tokens,
+                "max_tokens": 226,
                 **kwargs
             }
         }