diff --git a/services/vendors/docker-compose.yml.j2 b/services/vendors/docker-compose.yml.j2
index c1a49ade..7a8149c2 100644
--- a/services/vendors/docker-compose.yml.j2
+++ b/services/vendors/docker-compose.yml.j2
@@ -63,40 +63,7 @@ services:
         - traefik.http.services.vendor_chat_backend.loadbalancer.server.port=${VENDOR_CHATBOT_BACKEND_PORT}
         - traefik.http.routers.vendor_chat_backend.entrypoints=https
         - traefik.http.routers.vendor_chat_backend.tls=true
-        - traefik.http.routers.vendor_chat_backend.rule=(PathPrefix(`/v1/`) && ({{ generate_vendors_traefik_rule(VENDOR_CHATBOT_FRONTEND_PRODUCTS, VENDOR_CHATBOT_FRONTEND_SUBDOMAIN_PREFIX) }}))
-    networks:
-      - public
-  chat-frontend:
-    image: ${VENDOR_CHATBOT_FRONTEND_IMAGE}
-    init: true
-{%- raw %}
-    hostname: "v-chat-frontend-{{.Node.Hostname}}-{{.Task.Slot}}"
-{%- endraw %}
-    deploy:
-      replicas: ${VENDOR_CHATBOT_FRONTEND_REPLICAS}
-      placement:
-        constraints:
-          - node.labels.simcore==true
-      resources:
-        limits:
-          cpus: "1.0"
-          memory: 2.5G
-        reservations:
-          cpus: "0.1"
-          memory: 512M
-      update_config:
-        parallelism: 1
-        order: start-first
-        failure_action: continue
-        delay: 10s
-      labels:
-        - traefik.enable=true
-        - traefik.swarm.network=${PUBLIC_NETWORK}
-        - traefik.http.services.vendor_chat_frontend.loadbalancer.server.port=${VENDOR_CHATBOT_FRONTEND_PORT}
-        - traefik.http.routers.vendor_chat_frontend.entrypoints=https
-        - traefik.http.routers.vendor_chat_frontend.tls=true
-        - traefik.http.routers.vendor_chat_frontend.rule=(!PathPrefix(`/v1/`) && ({{ generate_vendors_traefik_rule(VENDOR_CHATBOT_FRONTEND_PRODUCTS, VENDOR_CHATBOT_FRONTEND_SUBDOMAIN_PREFIX) }}))
-        - traefik.http.routers.vendor_chat_frontend.middlewares=authenticated_platform_user@swarm
+        - traefik.http.routers.vendor_chat_backend.rule=(PathPrefix(`/v1/`) && ({{ generate_vendors_traefik_rule(VENDOR_CHATBOT_PRODUCTS, VENDOR_CHATBOT_SUBDOMAIN_PREFIX) }}))
     networks:
       - public
 networks:
diff --git a/services/vendors/template.env b/services/vendors/template.env
index 7fbe5a61..23a1d554 100644
--- a/services/vendors/template.env
+++ b/services/vendors/template.env
@@ -6,10 +6,7 @@ VENDOR_MANUAL_PORT=${VENDOR_MANUAL_PORT}
 VENDOR_CHATBOT_BACKEND_IMAGE=${VENDOR_CHATBOT_BACKEND_IMAGE}
 VENDOR_CHATBOT_BACKEND_PORT=${VENDOR_CHATBOT_BACKEND_PORT}
 VENDOR_CHATBOT_BACKEND_REPLICAS=${VENDOR_CHATBOT_BACKEND_REPLICAS}
-VENDOR_CHATBOT_FRONTEND_IMAGE=${VENDOR_CHATBOT_FRONTEND_IMAGE}
-VENDOR_CHATBOT_FRONTEND_PORT=${VENDOR_CHATBOT_FRONTEND_PORT}
-VENDOR_CHATBOT_FRONTEND_PRODUCTS=${VENDOR_CHATBOT_FRONTEND_PRODUCTS}
-VENDOR_CHATBOT_FRONTEND_REPLICAS=${VENDOR_CHATBOT_FRONTEND_REPLICAS}
-VENDOR_CHATBOT_FRONTEND_SUBDOMAIN_PREFIX=${VENDOR_CHATBOT_FRONTEND_SUBDOMAIN_PREFIX}
+VENDOR_CHATBOT_PRODUCTS=${VENDOR_CHATBOT_PRODUCTS}
+VENDOR_CHATBOT_SUBDOMAIN_PREFIX=${VENDOR_CHATBOT_SUBDOMAIN_PREFIX}
 PUBLIC_NETWORK=${PUBLIC_NETWORK}
 OPENAI_API_KEY=${OPENAI_API_KEY}