diff --git a/langchain/llms/openai.py b/langchain/llms/openai.py
index 4cebef1d150a3..2ea83ee77c562 100644
--- a/langchain/llms/openai.py
+++ b/langchain/llms/openai.py
@@ -29,7 +29,9 @@ class OpenAI(LLM, BaseModel):
     temperature: float = 0.7
     """What sampling temperature to use."""
     max_tokens: int = 256
-    """The maximum number of tokens to generate in the completion."""
+    """The maximum number of tokens to generate in the completion.
+    -1 returns as many tokens as possible given the prompt and
+    the models maximal context size."""
     top_p: float = 1
     """Total probability mass of tokens to consider at each step."""
     frequency_penalty: float = 0