diff --git a/comfy/text_encoders/hidream.py b/comfy/text_encoders/hidream.py
index af105f9bb..275fc47c0 100644
--- a/comfy/text_encoders/hidream.py
+++ b/comfy/text_encoders/hidream.py
@@ -108,6 +108,8 @@ class HiDreamTEModel(torch.nn.Module):
         if self.t5xxl is not None:
             t5_output = self.t5xxl.encode_token_weights(token_weight_pairs_t5)
             t5_out, t5_pooled = t5_output[:2]
+            # Quality rapidly degrades if T5 embeddings are >128 length. Llama3 is not as bad, so we allow that one to be longer.
+            t5_out = t5_out[:, :128, :]
 
         if self.llama is not None:
             ll_output = self.llama.encode_token_weights(token_weight_pairs_llama)