diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/web-apps/librechat.nix b/nixos/modules/services/web-apps/librechat.nix
index 120d6d092268..7313779305d8 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/web-apps/librechat.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/web-apps/librechat.nix
@@ -85,6 +85,15 @@ in
             example = 2309;
             description = "The value that will be passed to the PORT environment variable, telling LibreChat what to listen on.";
           };
+          LIBRECHAT_LOG_DIR = lib.mkOption {
+            type = lib.types.str;
+            default = "${cfg.dataDir}/logs";
+            defaultText = lib.literalExpression "/var/lib/librechat/logs";
+            description = ''
+              Logs will be saved into this directory.
+              By default it is relative to `services.librechat.dataDir`.
+            '';
+          };
         };
       };
       example = {
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/li/librechat/0002-logs.patch b/pkgs/by-name/li/librechat/0002-logs.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index dab413703655..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/by-name/li/librechat/0002-logs.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/api/config/meiliLogger.js b/api/config/meiliLogger.js
-index 398672da5..fcd6864f8 100644
---- a/api/config/meiliLogger.js
-+++ b/api/config/meiliLogger.js
-@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ const getLogDir = () => {
-   }
- 
-   // Local development: use api/logs relative to this file
--  return path.join(__dirname, '..', 'logs');
-+  return path.join('.', 'logs');
- };
- 
- const logDir = getLogDir();
-diff --git a/api/config/winston.js b/api/config/winston.js
-index 93b84f7c4..4276bd6c2 100644
---- a/api/config/winston.js
-+++ b/api/config/winston.js
-@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ const getLogDir = () => {
-   }
- 
-   // Local development: use api/logs relative to this file
--  return path.join(__dirname, '..', 'logs');
-+  return path.join('.', 'logs');
- };
- 
- const logDir = getLogDir();
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/li/librechat/0003-upload-paths.patch b/pkgs/by-name/li/librechat/0002-upload-paths.patch
similarity index 100%
rename from pkgs/by-name/li/librechat/0003-upload-paths.patch
rename to pkgs/by-name/li/librechat/0002-upload-paths.patch
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/li/librechat/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/li/librechat/package.nix
index 021a6a216d81..6a09ac2d8aa5 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/li/librechat/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/li/librechat/package.nix
@@ -29,14 +29,9 @@ buildNpmPackage (finalAttrs: {
     # Also, we set the `bin` property to the server script to benefit from the
     # auto-generated wrapper.
     ./0001-npm-pack.patch
-    # LibreChat tries writing logs to the package directory, which is immutable
-    # in our case. We patch the log directory to target the current working directory
-    # instead, which in case of NixOS will be the service's data directory.
-    ./0002-logs.patch
-    # Similarly to the logs, user uploads are by default written to the package
-    # directory as well. Again, we patch this to be relative to the current working
-    # directory instead.
-    ./0003-upload-paths.patch
+    # User uploads are by default written to the package directory as well.
+    # We patch this to be relative to the current working directory instead.
+    ./0002-upload-paths.patch
   ];
 
   npmDepsFetcherVersion = 2;
@@ -57,6 +52,13 @@ buildNpmPackage (finalAttrs: {
   npmBuildScript = "frontend";
   npmPruneFlags = [ "--production" ];
 
+  makeWrapperArgs = [
+    # Upstream defaults to the immutable package directory.
+    # As a functioning default, we set this to the current working directory (through a relative logs path),
+    # but make it easy for the module to override.
+    "--set-default LIBRECHAT_LOG_DIR ./logs"
+  ];
+
   # npmConfigHook only patches the root node_modules
   postConfigure = ''
     patchShebangs client/node_modules