diff --git a/src/index.cpp b/src/index.cpp
index 78fa2a16..126e579f 100644
--- a/src/index.cpp
+++ b/src/index.cpp
@@ -2517,6 +2517,10 @@ void Index::search(std::vector<query_tokens_t>& field_query_tokens, const std::v
 
         if (!vector_query.field_name.empty()) {
             auto k = std::max<size_t>(vector_query.k, per_page * page);
+            if(vector_query.query_doc_given) {
+                // since we will omit the query doc from results
+                k++;
+            }
 
             VectorFilterFunctor filterFunctor(filter_ids, filter_ids_length);
             auto& field_vector_index = vector_index.at(vector_query.field_name);
diff --git a/test/collection_vector_search_test.cpp b/test/collection_vector_search_test.cpp
index 9ae9a9fb..2e207bbd 100644
--- a/test/collection_vector_search_test.cpp
+++ b/test/collection_vector_search_test.cpp
@@ -159,6 +159,17 @@ TEST_F(CollectionVectorTest, BasicVectorQuerying) {
     ASSERT_STREQ("0", results["hits"][0]["document"]["id"].get<std::string>().c_str());
     ASSERT_STREQ("2", results["hits"][1]["document"]["id"].get<std::string>().c_str());
 
+    // `k` value should work correctly
+    results = coll1->search("*", {}, "", {}, {}, {0}, 1, 1, FREQUENCY, {true}, Index::DROP_TOKENS_THRESHOLD,
+                            spp::sparse_hash_set<std::string>(),
+                            spp::sparse_hash_set<std::string>(), 10, "", 30, 5,
+                            "", 10, {}, {}, {}, 0,
+                            "<mark>", "</mark>", {}, 1000, true, false, true, "", false, 6000 * 1000, 4, 7, fallback,
+                            4, {off}, 32767, 32767, 2,
+                            false, true, "vec:([], id: 1, k: 1)").get();
+
+    ASSERT_EQ(1, results["hits"].size());
+
     // when `id` does not exist, return appropriate error
     res_op = coll1->search("*", {}, "", {}, {}, {0}, 10, 1, FREQUENCY, {true}, Index::DROP_TOKENS_THRESHOLD,
                            spp::sparse_hash_set<std::string>(),