diff --git a/backend/open_webui/config.py b/backend/open_webui/config.py
index 93efa56fb9..4b399fd3cb 100644
--- a/backend/open_webui/config.py
+++ b/backend/open_webui/config.py
@@ -2276,7 +2276,7 @@ QDRANT_TIMEOUT = int(os.environ.get('QDRANT_TIMEOUT', '5'))
 QDRANT_HNSW_M = int(os.environ.get('QDRANT_HNSW_M', '16'))
 ENABLE_QDRANT_MULTITENANCY_MODE = os.environ.get('ENABLE_QDRANT_MULTITENANCY_MODE', 'true').lower() == 'true'
 QDRANT_COLLECTION_PREFIX = os.environ.get('QDRANT_COLLECTION_PREFIX', 'open-webui')
-QDRANT_HYBRID_SEARCH_ENABLED = os.environ.get('QDRANT_HYBRID_SEARCH_ENABLED', 'true').lower() == 'true'
+QDRANT_HYBRID_SEARCH_ENABLED = os.environ.get('QDRANT_HYBRID_SEARCH_ENABLED', 'false').lower() == 'true'
 QDRANT_SPARSE_EMBEDDING_MODEL = os.environ.get('QDRANT_SPARSE_EMBEDDING_MODEL', 'Qdrant/bm25')
 QDRANT_DENSE_VECTOR_NAME = os.environ.get('QDRANT_DENSE_VECTOR_NAME', 'dense')
 QDRANT_SPARSE_VECTOR_NAME = os.environ.get('QDRANT_SPARSE_VECTOR_NAME', 'sparse')