diff --git a/engines/python/setup/djl_python/tests/test_properties_manager.py b/engines/python/setup/djl_python/tests/test_properties_manager.py
index f3391edec..012114824 100644
--- a/engines/python/setup/djl_python/tests/test_properties_manager.py
+++ b/engines/python/setup/djl_python/tests/test_properties_manager.py
@@ -618,7 +618,7 @@ def test_all_vllm_engine_args():
                 "tokenizer_pool_size": "12",
                 "tokenizer_pool_type": "mytype",
                 "tokenizer_pool_extra_config": '{"a": "b"}',
-                "limit_mm_per_prompt": "image=2",
+                "limit_mm_per_prompt": '{"image":2}',
                 "enable_lora": "true",
                 "max_loras": "5",
                 "max_lora_rank": "123",
diff --git a/serving/docs/lmi/user_guides/vision_language_models.md b/serving/docs/lmi/user_guides/vision_language_models.md
index 699602615..759d1e754 100644
--- a/serving/docs/lmi/user_guides/vision_language_models.md
+++ b/serving/docs/lmi/user_guides/vision_language_models.md
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ You can read more about the supported format in the [chat completions doc](chat_
 Deploying Vision Language Models with LMI is very similar to deploying Text Generation Models.
 
 There are some additional, optional configs that are exposed:
-* `option.limit_mm_per_prompt`: For each multimodal plugin, limit how many input instances to allow for each prompt. Expects a comma-separated list of items, e.g.: `image=16,video=2` allows a maximum of 16 images and 2 videos per prompt. Defaults to 1 for each modality.
+* `option.limit_mm_per_prompt`: For each multimodal plugin, limit how many input instances to allow for each prompt. Expects a comma-separated list of items, e.g.: `{"image": 16, "video": 2}` allows a maximum of 16 images and 2 videos per prompt. Defaults to 1 for each modality.
 
 Example SageMaker deployment code:
 
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ from sagemaker.djl_inference import DJLModel
 model = DJLModel(
     model_id="llava-hf/llava-v1.6-mistral-7b-hf",
     env={
-        "OPTION_LIMIT_MM_PER_PROMPT": "image=2",
+        "OPTION_LIMIT_MM_PER_PROMPT": '{"image":2}',
     }
 )