diff --git a/src/llama.cpp b/src/llama.cpp
index 6710ea32b..657dfdeab 100644
--- a/src/llama.cpp
+++ b/src/llama.cpp
@@ -6949,6 +6949,10 @@ static int32_t llama_kv_cache_update_internal(struct llama_context & lctx) {
         // TODO: extract to a function
         // build worst-case graph
         int n_tokens = (int)std::min(lctx.cparams.n_ctx, lctx.cparams.n_ubatch);
+        // MTP draft generation consumes one token and one hidden-state vector per decode step.
+        if (lctx.cparams.mtp_op_type == MTP_OP_DRAFT_GEN) {
+            n_tokens = 1;
+        }
         int n_past = lctx.cparams.n_ctx - n_tokens;
         llama_token token = llama_token_bos(&lctx.model); // not actually used by llama_build_graph, but required to choose between token and embedding inputs graph
         llama_batch reserve_batch = llama_batch_get_one(&token, n_tokens, n_past, 0);