diff --git a/src/routes/api/options.ts b/src/routes/api/options.ts
index 21903b09e..7d74c7244 100644
--- a/src/routes/api/options.ts
+++ b/src/routes/api/options.ts
@@ -99,7 +99,8 @@ const ALLOWED_OPTIONS = new Set([
     "embeddingAutoUpdateEnabled",
     "embeddingBatchSize",
     "embeddingUpdateInterval",
-    "embeddingDefaultDimension"
+    "embeddingDefaultDimension",
+    "embeddingsDefaultProvider"
 ]);
 
 function getOptions() {