diff --git a/src/lighteval/main_vllm.py b/src/lighteval/main_vllm.py
index 4ffcd60e2..6f0ef659e 100644
--- a/src/lighteval/main_vllm.py
+++ b/src/lighteval/main_vllm.py
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ def vllm(
         job_id=job_id,
         dataset_loading_processes=dataset_loading_processes,
         custom_tasks_directory=custom_tasks,
-        override_batch_size=-1,  # Cannot override batch size when using VLLM
+        override_batch_size=-1,  # Cannot override batch size when using vLLM; Configure `max_num_seqs` and `max_num_batched_tokens` in `VLLMModelConfig` instead.
         num_fewshot_seeds=num_fewshot_seeds,
         max_samples=max_samples,
         use_chat_template=use_chat_template,
diff --git a/src/lighteval/models/vllm/vllm_model.py b/src/lighteval/models/vllm/vllm_model.py
index 98309f7d6..7174430fc 100644
--- a/src/lighteval/models/vllm/vllm_model.py
+++ b/src/lighteval/models/vllm/vllm_model.py
@@ -93,6 +93,8 @@ class VLLMModelConfig:
     )
     pairwise_tokenization: bool = False  # whether to tokenize the context and continuation separately or together.
     generation_parameters: GenerationParameters = None  # sampling parameters to use for generation
+    max_num_seqs: int = 128  # maximum number of sequences per iteration; This variable and `max_num_batched_tokens` effectively control the batch size at prefill stage. See https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/issues/2492 for detailed explaination.
+    max_num_batched_tokens: int = 2048  # maximum number of tokens per batch
 
     subfolder: Optional[str] = None
 
@@ -183,6 +185,8 @@ def _create_auto_model(self, config: VLLMModelConfig, env_config: EnvConfig) ->
             "max_model_len": self._max_length,
             "swap_space": 4,
             "seed": config.seed,
+            "max_num_seqs": int(config.max_num_seqs),
+            "max_num_batched_tokens": int(config.max_num_batched_tokens),
         }
         if int(config.data_parallel_size) > 1:
             self.model_args["distributed_executor_backend"] = "ray"