diff --git a/src/api/models/bedrock.py b/src/api/models/bedrock.py
index be3fab28..9bbb8103 100644
--- a/src/api/models/bedrock.py
+++ b/src/api/models/bedrock.py
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
     Usage,
     UserMessage,
 )
-from api.setting import AWS_REGION, DEBUG, DEFAULT_MODEL, ENABLE_CROSS_REGION_INFERENCE
+from api.setting import AWS_REGION, CUSTOM_MODEL_LIST, DEBUG, DEFAULT_MODEL, ENABLE_CROSS_REGION_INFERENCE
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
@@ -101,6 +101,10 @@ def list_bedrock_models() -> dict:
             if not stream_supported or status not in ["ACTIVE", "LEGACY"]:
                 continue
 
+            # if the user provides a custom model list, filter only those models
+            if CUSTOM_MODEL_LIST and model_id not in CUSTOM_MODEL_LIST:
+                continue
+
             inference_types = model.get("inferenceTypesSupported", [])
             input_modalities = model["inputModalities"]
             # Add on-demand model list
diff --git a/src/api/setting.py b/src/api/setting.py
index e090300a..1decfd8c 100644
--- a/src/api/setting.py
+++ b/src/api/setting.py
@@ -15,4 +15,5 @@
 AWS_REGION = os.environ.get("AWS_REGION", "us-west-2")
 DEFAULT_MODEL = os.environ.get("DEFAULT_MODEL", "anthropic.claude-3-sonnet-20240229-v1:0")
 DEFAULT_EMBEDDING_MODEL = os.environ.get("DEFAULT_EMBEDDING_MODEL", "cohere.embed-multilingual-v3")
+CUSTOM_MODEL_LIST = os.environ.get("CUSTOM_MODEL_LIST", "").split(",")
 ENABLE_CROSS_REGION_INFERENCE = os.environ.get("ENABLE_CROSS_REGION_INFERENCE", "true").lower() != "false"