diff --git a/lm_eval/models/gigachat_model.py b/lm_eval/models/gigachat_model.py
index 091c13085d..e1bdb0a533 100644
--- a/lm_eval/models/gigachat_model.py
+++ b/lm_eval/models/gigachat_model.py
@@ -43,42 +43,44 @@ def _create_payload(
         **kwargs,
     ) -> dict:
         if generate:
-            max_tokens = gen_kwargs.pop("max_tokens", None)
             temperature = gen_kwargs.pop("temperature", None)
-            profanity_check = gen_kwargs.pop("profanity_check", True)
+            do_sample = gen_kwargs.pop("do_sample", None)
 
-            if (
-                "do_sample" in gen_kwargs
-            ):  # GigaChat API does not have do sample option.
-                do_sample = gen_kwargs.pop("do_sample")
+            if do_sample is not None:  # GigaChat API does not have do sample option.
                 if not do_sample:  # Ensure greedy decoding if do_sample=False
                     gen_kwargs["repetition_penalty"] = 1.0
                     gen_kwargs["top_p"] = 0.0
-                elif temperature == 0:
+                elif temperature == 0.0:
                     eval_logger.warning(
                         "You cannot set do_sample=True and temperature=0. Automatically setting temperature=1."
                     )
                     temperature = 1.0
             if (
-                temperature == 0
+                temperature == 0.0
             ):  # Ensure greedy decoding by setting top_p=0 and repetition_penalty = 1
                 temperature = (
                     1.0  # temperature cannot be set to zero. Use top_p instead
                 )
-                gen_kwargs["repetition_penalty"] = 1
-                gen_kwargs["top_p"] = 0
+                gen_kwargs["repetition_penalty"] = 1.0
+                gen_kwargs["top_p"] = 0.0
+            print(
+                {
+                    "messages": messages,
+                    "model": self.model,
+                    "temperature": temperature,
+                    **gen_kwargs,
+                }
+            )
             return {
                 "messages": messages,
                 "model": self.model,
-                "max_tokens": max_tokens,
                 "temperature": temperature,
-                "profanity_check": profanity_check,
                 **gen_kwargs,
             }
         else:
             return None
 
-    @property  # Don't use cached_property as we need to check that the acess_token has not expired.
+    @property  # Don't use cached_property as we need to check that the access_token has not expired.
     def header(self) -> dict:
         """Override this property to return the headers for the API request."""
 
@@ -90,6 +92,11 @@ def header(self) -> dict:
 
     @property  # Don't use cached_property as we need to check that the acess_token has not expired.
     def api_key(self):
+        self.key = os.environ.get(
+            "GIGACHAT_CREDENTIALS", None
+        )  # GigaChat access token.
+        if self.key:
+            return self.key  # If access token is available, return access token.
         RqUID = os.environ.get(
             "GIGACHAT_RQUID", None
         )  # Unique identification request. Complies with uuid4 format. Value must match regular expression (([0-9a-fA-F-])36)