diff --git a/src/khoj/processor/conversation/anthropic/anthropic_chat.py b/src/khoj/processor/conversation/anthropic/anthropic_chat.py
index 65e28d21..d014e9c1 100644
--- a/src/khoj/processor/conversation/anthropic/anthropic_chat.py
+++ b/src/khoj/processor/conversation/anthropic/anthropic_chat.py
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
-import json
 import logging
-import re
 from datetime import datetime, timedelta
 from typing import Dict, Optional
 
+import pyjson5
 from langchain.schema import ChatMessage
 
 from khoj.database.models import Agent, ChatModelOptions, KhojUser
@@ -110,7 +109,7 @@ def extract_questions_anthropic(
     # Extract, Clean Message from Claude's Response
     try:
         response = clean_json(response)
-        response = json.loads(response)
+        response = pyjson5.loads(response)
         response = [q.strip() for q in response["queries"] if q.strip()]
         if not isinstance(response, list) or not response:
             logger.error(f"Invalid response for constructing subqueries: {response}")
diff --git a/src/khoj/processor/conversation/google/gemini_chat.py b/src/khoj/processor/conversation/google/gemini_chat.py
index 965d3010..61146b2e 100644
--- a/src/khoj/processor/conversation/google/gemini_chat.py
+++ b/src/khoj/processor/conversation/google/gemini_chat.py
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
-import json
 import logging
-import re
 from datetime import datetime, timedelta
 from typing import Dict, Optional
 
+import pyjson5
 from langchain.schema import ChatMessage
 
 from khoj.database.models import Agent, ChatModelOptions, KhojUser
@@ -104,7 +103,7 @@ def extract_questions_gemini(
     # Extract, Clean Message from Gemini's Response
     try:
         response = clean_json(response)
-        response = json.loads(response)
+        response = pyjson5.loads(response)
         response = [q.strip() for q in response["queries"] if q.strip()]
         if not isinstance(response, list) or not response:
             logger.error(f"Invalid response for constructing subqueries: {response}")
diff --git a/src/khoj/processor/conversation/offline/chat_model.py b/src/khoj/processor/conversation/offline/chat_model.py
index b1ab77fe..aebc91ac 100644
--- a/src/khoj/processor/conversation/offline/chat_model.py
+++ b/src/khoj/processor/conversation/offline/chat_model.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ from datetime import datetime, timedelta
 from threading import Thread
 from typing import Any, Iterator, List, Optional, Union
 
+import pyjson5
 from langchain.schema import ChatMessage
 from llama_cpp import Llama
 
@@ -13,6 +14,7 @@ from khoj.processor.conversation import prompts
 from khoj.processor.conversation.offline.utils import download_model
 from khoj.processor.conversation.utils import (
     ThreadedGenerator,
+    clean_json,
     commit_conversation_trace,
     generate_chatml_messages_with_context,
     messages_to_print,
@@ -114,8 +116,8 @@ def extract_questions_offline(
 
     # Extract and clean the chat model's response
     try:
-        response = response.strip(empty_escape_sequences)
-        response = json.loads(response)
+        response = clean_json(empty_escape_sequences)
+        response = pyjson5.loads(response)
         questions = [q.strip() for q in response["queries"] if q.strip()]
         questions = filter_questions(questions)
     except:
diff --git a/src/khoj/processor/conversation/openai/gpt.py b/src/khoj/processor/conversation/openai/gpt.py
index e525fa75..f577e870 100644
--- a/src/khoj/processor/conversation/openai/gpt.py
+++ b/src/khoj/processor/conversation/openai/gpt.py
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-import json
 import logging
 from datetime import datetime, timedelta
 from typing import Dict, Optional
 
+import pyjson5
 from langchain.schema import ChatMessage
 
 from khoj.database.models import Agent, ChatModelOptions, KhojUser
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ def extract_questions(
     # Extract, Clean Message from GPT's Response
     try:
         response = clean_json(response)
-        response = json.loads(response)
+        response = pyjson5.loads(response)
         response = [q.strip() for q in response["queries"] if q.strip()]
         if not isinstance(response, list) or not response:
             logger.error(f"Invalid response for constructing subqueries: {response}")
diff --git a/src/khoj/routers/helpers.py b/src/khoj/routers/helpers.py
index e160b8e3..9d5e8996 100644
--- a/src/khoj/routers/helpers.py
+++ b/src/khoj/routers/helpers.py
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ from typing import (
 from urllib.parse import parse_qs, quote, unquote, urljoin, urlparse
 
 import cron_descriptor
+import pyjson5
 import pytz
 import requests
 from apscheduler.job import Job
@@ -541,7 +542,7 @@ async def generate_online_subqueries(
     # Validate that the response is a non-empty, JSON-serializable list
     try:
         response = clean_json(response)
-        response = json.loads(response)
+        response = pyjson5.loads(response)
         response = {q.strip() for q in response["queries"] if q.strip()}
         if not isinstance(response, set) or not response or len(response) == 0:
             logger.error(f"Invalid response for constructing subqueries: {response}. Returning original query: {q}")