diff --git a/litellm/llms/ollama.py b/litellm/llms/ollama.py
index ceab2c7d3..b0d06ef62 100644
--- a/litellm/llms/ollama.py
+++ b/litellm/llms/ollama.py
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ async def ollama_async_streaming(url, data, model_response, encoding, logging_ob
 async def ollama_acompletion(url, data, model_response, encoding, logging_obj):
     data["stream"] = False
     try:
-        timeout = aiohttp.ClientTimeout(total=600)  # 10 minutes
+        timeout = aiohttp.ClientTimeout(total=litellm.request_timeout)  # 10 minutes
         async with aiohttp.ClientSession(timeout=timeout) as session:
             resp = await session.post(url, json=data)