diff --git a/vllm/engine/output_processor/single_step.py b/vllm/engine/output_processor/single_step.py
index 422e6d30522f5..e288aa0c4aafd 100644
--- a/vllm/engine/output_processor/single_step.py
+++ b/vllm/engine/output_processor/single_step.py
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ def _process_sequence_group_outputs(self, seq_group: SequenceGroup,
                                         outputs: SequenceGroupOutput,
                                         is_async: bool) -> None:
         sampling_params = seq_group.sampling_params
-        if sampling_params.n == 1 and not sampling_params.use_beam_search:
+        if sampling_params.best_of == 1 and not sampling_params.use_beam_search:
             # only have one output sample
             sample = outputs.samples[0]
             # only have one sequence