diff --git a/ChatQnA/benchmark/performance/helm_charts/customize.yaml b/ChatQnA/benchmark/performance/helm_charts/customize.yaml
index b55f5e150..1462eb679 100644
--- a/ChatQnA/benchmark/performance/helm_charts/customize.yaml
+++ b/ChatQnA/benchmark/performance/helm_charts/customize.yaml
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2024 Intel Corporation
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
-HUGGINGFACEHUB_API_TOKEN: ${HF_TOKEN}
-
 podSpecs:
   - name: chatqna-backend-server-deploy
     replicas: 2
diff --git a/ChatQnA/benchmark/performance/helm_charts/templates/configmap.yaml b/ChatQnA/benchmark/performance/helm_charts/templates/configmap.yaml
index a5cfd04b2..24da6bdea 100644
--- a/ChatQnA/benchmark/performance/helm_charts/templates/configmap.yaml
+++ b/ChatQnA/benchmark/performance/helm_charts/templates/configmap.yaml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ metadata:
 data:
   EMBEDDING_MODEL_ID: {{ .Values.config.EMBEDDING_MODEL_ID }}
   EMBEDDING_SERVER_HOST_IP: embedding-dependency-svc
-  HUGGINGFACEHUB_API_TOKEN: {{ .Values.HUGGINGFACEHUB_API_TOKEN }}
+  HUGGINGFACEHUB_API_TOKEN: {{ .Values.config.HUGGINGFACEHUB_API_TOKEN }}
   INDEX_NAME: rag-redis
   LLM_MODEL_ID: {{ .Values.config.LLM_MODEL_ID }}
   LLM_SERVER_HOST_IP: llm-dependency-svc
diff --git a/ChatQnA/benchmark/performance/helm_charts/values.yaml b/ChatQnA/benchmark/performance/helm_charts/values.yaml
index 387bbd5cb..ddb76b0bb 100644
--- a/ChatQnA/benchmark/performance/helm_charts/values.yaml
+++ b/ChatQnA/benchmark/performance/helm_charts/values.yaml
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ config:
   EMBEDDING_MODEL_ID: BAAI/bge-base-en-v1.5
   LLM_MODEL_ID: Intel/neural-chat-7b-v3-3
   RERANK_MODEL_ID: BAAI/bge-reranker-base
+  HUGGINGFACEHUB_API_TOKEN: ${HF_TOKEN}
 
 microservices:
   - name: chatqna-backend-server-deploy
@@ -76,8 +77,6 @@ microservices:
         value: habana
       - name: HABANA_VISIBLE_DEVICES
         value: all
-      - name: HF_TOKEN
-        value: ${HF_TOKEN}
       - name: MAX_WARMUP_SEQUENCE_LENGTH
         value: "512"
     volumeMounts:
@@ -119,8 +118,6 @@ microservices:
         value: habana
       - name: HABANA_VISIBLE_DEVICES
         value: all
-      - name: HF_TOKEN
-        value: ${HF_TOKEN}
     volumeMounts:
       - mountPath: /data
         name: model-volume