diff --git a/api/settings.py b/api/settings.py
index 32fc7bd69..5b3783b45 100644
--- a/api/settings.py
+++ b/api/settings.py
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ REGISTER_ENABLED = 1
 # sandbox-executor-manager
 SANDBOX_ENABLED = 0
 SANDBOX_HOST = None
+STRONG_TEST_COUNT = int(os.environ.get("STRONG_TEST_COUNT", "32"))
 
 BUILTIN_EMBEDDING_MODELS = ["BAAI/bge-large-zh-v1.5@BAAI", "maidalun1020/bce-embedding-base_v1@Youdao"]
 
diff --git a/api/utils/api_utils.py b/api/utils/api_utils.py
index 48be1ecae..27ab6201d 100644
--- a/api/utils/api_utils.py
+++ b/api/utils/api_utils.py
@@ -687,6 +687,12 @@ def timeout(seconds: float | int = None, attempts: int = 2, *, exception: Option
 
 
 async def is_strong_enough(chat_model, embedding_model):
+    count = settings.STRONG_TEST_COUNT
+    if not chat_model or not embedding_model:
+        return
+    if isinstance(count, int) and count <= 0:
+        return
+
     @timeout(60, 2)
     async def _is_strong_enough():
         nonlocal chat_model, embedding_model
@@ -701,5 +707,5 @@ async def is_strong_enough(chat_model, embedding_model):
 
     # Pressure test for GraphRAG task
     async with trio.open_nursery() as nursery:
-        for _ in range(32):
+        for _ in range(count):
             nursery.start_soon(_is_strong_enough)