diff --git a/docs/changelog/118586.yaml b/docs/changelog/118586.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..ea01efba68f98
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/changelog/118586.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+pr: 118586
+summary: Bump timeout in `SemanticQueryBuilder` to 30s
+area: Search
+type: enhancement
+issues: []
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/queries/SemanticQueryBuilder.java b/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/queries/SemanticQueryBuilder.java
index 2a34651efcd9d..eb7b365eb99ac 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/queries/SemanticQueryBuilder.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/queries/SemanticQueryBuilder.java
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@
 import org.elasticsearch.xcontent.XContentBuilder;
 import org.elasticsearch.xcontent.XContentParser;
 import org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.inference.action.InferenceAction;
-import org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.ml.action.InferModelAction;
 import org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.ml.inference.results.ErrorInferenceResults;
 import org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.ml.inference.results.MlTextEmbeddingResults;
 import org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.ml.inference.results.TextExpansionResults;
@@ -231,7 +230,7 @@ private SemanticQueryBuilder doRewriteGetInferenceResults(QueryRewriteContext qu
                 List.of(query),
                 Map.of(),
                 InputType.SEARCH,
-                InferModelAction.Request.DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_FOR_API,
+                InferenceAction.Request.DEFAULT_TIMEOUT,
                 false
             );