diff --git a/.changeset/slow-llamas-read.md b/.changeset/slow-llamas-read.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..99d824b84
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/slow-llamas-read.md
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+---
+'@livekit/agents': patch
+'@livekit/agents-plugin-baseten': patch
+'@livekit/agents-plugin-google': patch
+'@livekit/agents-plugin-mistralai': patch
+'@livekit/agents-plugin-openai': patch
+---
+
+fix(llm): raise the default streaming request timeout to 30s while keeping it configurable through connection options
diff --git a/agents/src/inference/llm.ts b/agents/src/inference/llm.ts
index 3434e496c..a12b44106 100644
--- a/agents/src/inference/llm.ts
+++ b/agents/src/inference/llm.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import OpenAI from 'openai';
 import { APIConnectionError, APIStatusError, APITimeoutError } from '../_exceptions.js';
 import * as llm from '../llm/index.js';
 import type { APIConnectOptions } from '../types.js';
-import { DEFAULT_API_CONNECT_OPTIONS } from '../types.js';
+import { DEFAULT_LLM_API_CONNECT_OPTIONS } from '../types.js';
 import { type Expand, toError } from '../utils.js';
 import {
   type AnyString,
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ export class LLM extends llm.LLM {
   chat({
     chatCtx,
     toolCtx,
-    connOptions = DEFAULT_API_CONNECT_OPTIONS,
+    connOptions = DEFAULT_LLM_API_CONNECT_OPTIONS,
     parallelToolCalls,
     toolChoice,
     inferenceClass,
diff --git a/agents/src/types.ts b/agents/src/types.ts
index c66c95cf9..1454596a4 100644
--- a/agents/src/types.ts
+++ b/agents/src/types.ts
@@ -25,6 +25,11 @@ export const DEFAULT_API_CONNECT_OPTIONS: APIConnectOptions = {
   timeoutMs: 10000,
 };
 
+export const DEFAULT_LLM_API_CONNECT_OPTIONS: APIConnectOptions = {
+  ...DEFAULT_API_CONNECT_OPTIONS,
+  timeoutMs: 30000,
+};
+
 /**
  * Return the interval for the given number of retries.
  * The first retry is immediate, and then uses specified retryIntervalMs.
@@ -65,7 +70,7 @@ export interface ResolvedSessionConnectOptions {
 
 export const DEFAULT_SESSION_CONNECT_OPTIONS: ResolvedSessionConnectOptions = {
   sttConnOptions: DEFAULT_API_CONNECT_OPTIONS,
-  llmConnOptions: DEFAULT_API_CONNECT_OPTIONS,
+  llmConnOptions: DEFAULT_LLM_API_CONNECT_OPTIONS,
   ttsConnOptions: DEFAULT_API_CONNECT_OPTIONS,
   maxUnrecoverableErrors: 3,
 };
diff --git a/agents/src/voice/testing/fake_llm.ts b/agents/src/voice/testing/fake_llm.ts
index ad3a1bf16..be36bcf2f 100644
--- a/agents/src/voice/testing/fake_llm.ts
+++ b/agents/src/voice/testing/fake_llm.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import type { ChatContext } from '../../llm/chat_context.js';
 import { FunctionCall } from '../../llm/chat_context.js';
 import { LLMStream as BaseLLMStream, LLM, type LLMStream } from '../../llm/llm.js';
 import type { ToolChoice, ToolContext } from '../../llm/tool_context.js';
-import { type APIConnectOptions, DEFAULT_API_CONNECT_OPTIONS } from '../../types.js';
+import { type APIConnectOptions, DEFAULT_LLM_API_CONNECT_OPTIONS } from '../../types.js';
 import { delay } from '../../utils.js';
 
 export interface FakeLLMResponse {
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ export class FakeLLM extends LLM {
   chat({
     chatCtx,
     toolCtx,
-    connOptions = DEFAULT_API_CONNECT_OPTIONS,
+    connOptions = DEFAULT_LLM_API_CONNECT_OPTIONS,
   }: {
     chatCtx: ChatContext;
     toolCtx?: ToolContext;
diff --git a/plugins/baseten/src/llm.ts b/plugins/baseten/src/llm.ts
index 4039b7cac..7aac551f2 100644
--- a/plugins/baseten/src/llm.ts
+++ b/plugins/baseten/src/llm.ts
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  * Configures the OpenAI plugin to work with Baseten's OpenAI-compatible API
  */
 import type { APIConnectOptions } from '@livekit/agents';
-import { DEFAULT_API_CONNECT_OPTIONS, inference, llm } from '@livekit/agents';
+import { DEFAULT_LLM_API_CONNECT_OPTIONS, inference, llm } from '@livekit/agents';
 import { OpenAI } from 'openai';
 import type { BasetenLLMOptions } from './types.js';
 
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ export class OpenAILLM extends llm.LLM {
   chat({
     chatCtx,
     toolCtx,
-    connOptions = DEFAULT_API_CONNECT_OPTIONS,
+    connOptions = DEFAULT_LLM_API_CONNECT_OPTIONS,
     parallelToolCalls,
     toolChoice,
     extraKwargs,
diff --git a/plugins/google/src/llm.ts b/plugins/google/src/llm.ts
index ebd8b1f42..25c1f9aa9 100644
--- a/plugins/google/src/llm.ts
+++ b/plugins/google/src/llm.ts
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import type { APIConnectOptions } from '@livekit/agents';
 import {
   APIConnectionError,
   APIStatusError,
-  DEFAULT_API_CONNECT_OPTIONS,
+  DEFAULT_LLM_API_CONNECT_OPTIONS,
   llm,
   shortuuid,
 } from '@livekit/agents';
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ export class LLM extends llm.LLM {
   chat({
     chatCtx,
     toolCtx,
-    connOptions = DEFAULT_API_CONNECT_OPTIONS,
+    connOptions = DEFAULT_LLM_API_CONNECT_OPTIONS,
     toolChoice,
     extraKwargs,
     geminiTools,
diff --git a/plugins/mistralai/src/llm.ts b/plugins/mistralai/src/llm.ts
index f0c07f7a2..c5de7caab 100644
--- a/plugins/mistralai/src/llm.ts
+++ b/plugins/mistralai/src/llm.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import type { APIConnectOptions } from '@livekit/agents';
 import {
   APIConnectionError,
   APIStatusError,
-  DEFAULT_API_CONNECT_OPTIONS,
+  DEFAULT_LLM_API_CONNECT_OPTIONS,
   llm,
   shortuuid,
 } from '@livekit/agents';
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ export class LLM extends llm.LLM {
   chat({
     chatCtx,
     toolCtx,
-    connOptions = DEFAULT_API_CONNECT_OPTIONS,
+    connOptions = DEFAULT_LLM_API_CONNECT_OPTIONS,
     toolChoice,
     extraKwargs,
   }: {
diff --git a/plugins/openai/src/llm.ts b/plugins/openai/src/llm.ts
index 434f51f05..8ab79a4df 100644
--- a/plugins/openai/src/llm.ts
+++ b/plugins/openai/src/llm.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 //
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 import type { APIConnectOptions } from '@livekit/agents';
-import { DEFAULT_API_CONNECT_OPTIONS, inference, llm } from '@livekit/agents';
+import { DEFAULT_LLM_API_CONNECT_OPTIONS, inference, llm } from '@livekit/agents';
 import { AzureOpenAI, OpenAI } from 'openai';
 import type {
   CerebrasChatModels,
@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ export class LLM extends llm.LLM {
   chat({
     chatCtx,
     toolCtx,
-    connOptions = DEFAULT_API_CONNECT_OPTIONS,
+    connOptions = DEFAULT_LLM_API_CONNECT_OPTIONS,
     parallelToolCalls,
     toolChoice,
     extraKwargs,
diff --git a/plugins/openai/src/responses/llm.ts b/plugins/openai/src/responses/llm.ts
index 494a05c87..0e1358c29 100644
--- a/plugins/openai/src/responses/llm.ts
+++ b/plugins/openai/src/responses/llm.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import {
   APIConnectionError,
   APIStatusError,
   APITimeoutError,
-  DEFAULT_API_CONNECT_OPTIONS,
+  DEFAULT_LLM_API_CONNECT_OPTIONS,
   llm,
   log,
   toError,
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ class ResponsesHttpLLM extends llm.LLM {
   override chat({
     chatCtx,
     toolCtx,
-    connOptions = DEFAULT_API_CONNECT_OPTIONS,
+    connOptions = DEFAULT_LLM_API_CONNECT_OPTIONS,
     parallelToolCalls,
     toolChoice,
     extraKwargs,
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ export class LLM extends llm.LLM {
   override chat({
     chatCtx,
     toolCtx,
-    connOptions = DEFAULT_API_CONNECT_OPTIONS,
+    connOptions = DEFAULT_LLM_API_CONNECT_OPTIONS,
     parallelToolCalls,
     toolChoice,
     extraKwargs,
diff --git a/plugins/openai/src/ws/llm.ts b/plugins/openai/src/ws/llm.ts
index 1dd6483c6..9fe77931e 100644
--- a/plugins/openai/src/ws/llm.ts
+++ b/plugins/openai/src/ws/llm.ts
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import {
   APIStatusError,
   APITimeoutError,
   ConnectionPool,
-  DEFAULT_API_CONNECT_OPTIONS,
+  DEFAULT_LLM_API_CONNECT_OPTIONS,
   llm,
   stream,
   toError,
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ export class WSLLM extends llm.LLM {
   chat({
     chatCtx,
     toolCtx,
-    connOptions = DEFAULT_API_CONNECT_OPTIONS,
+    connOptions = DEFAULT_LLM_API_CONNECT_OPTIONS,
     parallelToolCalls,
     toolChoice,
     extraKwargs,