diff --git a/src/middlewares/router.ts b/src/middlewares/router.ts
index 0dbd854..af19dcb 100644
--- a/src/middlewares/router.ts
+++ b/src/middlewares/router.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,14 @@ import { log } from "../utils/log";
 const enc = get_encoding("cl100k_base");
 
 const getUseModel = (req: Request, tokenCount: number) => {
+  const [provider, model] = req.body.model.split(",");
+  if (provider && model) {
+    return {
+      provider,
+      model,
+    };
+  }
+
   // if tokenCount is greater than 32K, use the long context model
   if (tokenCount > 1000 * 32) {
     log("Using long context model due to token count:", tokenCount);
@@ -33,13 +41,6 @@ const getUseModel = (req: Request, tokenCount: number) => {
       model,
     };
   }
-  const [provider, model] = req.body.model.split(",");
-  if (provider && model) {
-    return {
-      provider,
-      model,
-    };
-  }
   return {
     provider: "default",
     model: req.config.OPENAI_MODEL,