diff --git a/surfsense_backend/.env.example b/surfsense_backend/.env.example
index b7e580a66..c711fd0b5 100644
--- a/surfsense_backend/.env.example
+++ b/surfsense_backend/.env.example
@@ -132,3 +132,6 @@ UVICORN_LOG_LEVEL=info
 # UVICORN_UDS=""
 # UVICORN_FD=""
 # UVICORN_ROOT_PATH=""
+
+# Ollama Configuration
+# OLLAMA_BASE_URL=http://host.docker.internal:11434
diff --git a/surfsense_backend/app/config/__init__.py b/surfsense_backend/app/config/__init__.py
index f279f2708..5aca49a30 100644
--- a/surfsense_backend/app/config/__init__.py
+++ b/surfsense_backend/app/config/__init__.py
@@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ class Config:
     # Azure OpenAI credentials from environment variables
     AZURE_OPENAI_ENDPOINT = os.getenv("AZURE_OPENAI_ENDPOINT")
     AZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY = os.getenv("AZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY")
+    OLLAMA_BASE_URL = os.getenv("OLLAMA_BASE_URL")
 
     # Pass Azure credentials to embeddings when using Azure OpenAI
     embedding_kwargs = {}
@@ -170,6 +171,8 @@ class Config:
         embedding_kwargs["azure_endpoint"] = AZURE_OPENAI_ENDPOINT
     if AZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY:
         embedding_kwargs["azure_api_key"] = AZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY
+    if OLLAMA_BASE_URL:
+        embedding_kwargs["base_url"] = OLLAMA_BASE_URL
 
     embedding_model_instance = AutoEmbeddings.get_embeddings(
         EMBEDDING_MODEL,