diff --git a/src/serve/openai_chat_request.cpp b/src/serve/openai_chat_request.cpp
index 2a7611c1e7..537638f8f9 100644
--- a/src/serve/openai_chat_request.cpp
+++ b/src/serve/openai_chat_request.cpp
@@ -753,6 +753,7 @@ void parse_parallel_tool_calls(const Json& body, const GenerationRequest& output
 }
 
 void parse_stop(const Json& body, GenerationRequest& output) {
+    output.ignore_eos = get_bool(body, "ignore_eos", false);
     if (!body.contains("stop") || body.at("stop").is_null()) { return; }
     output.stop_strings_apply_to_reasoning = true;
     const Json& stop                       = body.at("stop");
diff --git a/src/serve/request.h b/src/serve/request.h
index cf87d3621f..fa7368bfd5 100644
--- a/src/serve/request.h
+++ b/src/serve/request.h
@@ -178,6 +178,10 @@ struct GenerationRequest {
     ToolChoice tool_choice;
     std::vector<std::string> stop_strings;
     bool stop_strings_apply_to_reasoning = false;
+    // Benchmark/serving extension shared with vLLM, SGLang and llama.cpp: suppress the
+    // checkpoint's default stop tokens so generation runs to the requested token budget.
+    // Caller-supplied stop tokens and stop strings still apply.
+    bool ignore_eos = false;
     int max_tokens                       = 0; // resolved budget; zero means immediate output limit
     std::optional<bool> enable_thinking;      // unset => use the server default
     std::optional<std::uint32_t> thinking_budget;
diff --git a/src/serve/translate.cpp b/src/serve/translate.cpp
index c2effe323b..14279ce978 100644
--- a/src/serve/translate.cpp
+++ b/src/serve/translate.cpp
@@ -306,6 +306,7 @@ ninfer::RequestOptions to_request_options(const GenerationRequest& request,
     options.output.raw                     = false;
     options.output.preserve_special_tokens = request.uses_tools() || request.has_tool_history();
     options.output.tool_name_max_length = static_cast<std::uint32_t>(request.tool_name_max_length);
+    options.stop.include_model_defaults = !request.ignore_eos;
     options.stop.strings.reserve(request.stop_strings.size() *
                                  (request.stop_strings_apply_to_reasoning ? 2U : 1U));
     for (const std::string& stop : request.stop_strings) {