diff --git a/vllm/core/scheduler.py b/vllm/core/scheduler.py
index 2b37a3af2629..bff357748596 100644
--- a/vllm/core/scheduler.py
+++ b/vllm/core/scheduler.py
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ class Scheduler:
                     logger.warning(
                         f"Input prompt ({num_prompt_tokens} tokens) is too long"
                         " and exceeds limit of "
-                        f"{self.scheduler_config.max_seq_len}")
+                        f"{self.scheduler_config.max_model_len}")
                     for seq in seq_group.get_seqs():
                         seq.status = SequenceStatus.FINISHED_IGNORED
                     ignored_seq_groups.append(seq_group)