diff --git a/engines/onnxruntime/onnxruntime-engine/src/main/java/ai/djl/onnxruntime/engine/OrtEngine.java b/engines/onnxruntime/onnxruntime-engine/src/main/java/ai/djl/onnxruntime/engine/OrtEngine.java
index f96db2bfb01..bb49ac51c05 100644
--- a/engines/onnxruntime/onnxruntime-engine/src/main/java/ai/djl/onnxruntime/engine/OrtEngine.java
+++ b/engines/onnxruntime/onnxruntime-engine/src/main/java/ai/djl/onnxruntime/engine/OrtEngine.java
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 import ai.djl.training.GradientCollector;
 import ai.onnxruntime.OrtEnvironment;
 import ai.onnxruntime.OrtException;
+import ai.onnxruntime.OrtLoggingLevel;
 import ai.onnxruntime.OrtSession;
 
 /**
@@ -42,13 +43,33 @@ public final class OrtEngine extends Engine {
 
     private OrtEngine() {
         // init OrtRuntime
-        this.env = OrtEnvironment.getEnvironment();
+        OrtEnvironment.ThreadingOptions options = new OrtEnvironment.ThreadingOptions();
+        try {
+            Integer interOpThreads = Integer.getInteger("ai.djl.onnxruntime.num_interop_threads");
+            Integer intraOpsThreads = Integer.getInteger("ai.djl.onnxruntime.num_threads");
+            if (interOpThreads != null) {
+                options.setGlobalInterOpNumThreads(interOpThreads);
+            }
+            if (intraOpsThreads != null) {
+                options.setGlobalIntraOpNumThreads(intraOpsThreads);
+            }
+            OrtLoggingLevel logging = OrtLoggingLevel.ORT_LOGGING_LEVEL_WARNING;
+            String name = OrtEnvironment.DEFAULT_NAME;
+            this.env = OrtEnvironment.getEnvironment(logging, name, options);
+        } catch (OrtException e) {
+            options.close();
+            throw new AssertionError("Failed to config OrtEnvironment", e);
+        }
     }
 
     static Engine newInstance() {
         return new OrtEngine();
     }
 
+    OrtEnvironment getEnv() {
+        return env;
+    }
+
     /** {@inheritDoc} */
     @Override
     public Engine getAlternativeEngine() {
@@ -87,8 +108,7 @@ public boolean hasCapability(String capability) {
         if (StandardCapabilities.MKL.equals(capability)) {
             return true;
         } else if (StandardCapabilities.CUDA.equals(capability)) {
-            try {
-                OrtSession.SessionOptions sessionOptions = new OrtSession.SessionOptions();
+            try (OrtSession.SessionOptions sessionOptions = new OrtSession.SessionOptions()) {
                 sessionOptions.addCUDA();
                 return true;
             } catch (OrtException e) {
diff --git a/engines/onnxruntime/onnxruntime-engine/src/main/java/ai/djl/onnxruntime/engine/OrtModel.java b/engines/onnxruntime/onnxruntime-engine/src/main/java/ai/djl/onnxruntime/engine/OrtModel.java
index 6f2cf648b93..81e07032a1c 100644
--- a/engines/onnxruntime/onnxruntime-engine/src/main/java/ai/djl/onnxruntime/engine/OrtModel.java
+++ b/engines/onnxruntime/onnxruntime-engine/src/main/java/ai/djl/onnxruntime/engine/OrtModel.java
@@ -179,6 +179,11 @@ private SessionOptions getSessionOptions(Map<String, ?> options) throws OrtExcep
             ortSession.setCPUArenaAllocator(true);
         }
 
+        String disablePerSessionThreads = (String) options.get("disablePerSessionThreads");
+        if (Boolean.parseBoolean(disablePerSessionThreads)) {
+            ortSession.disablePerSessionThreads();
+        }
+
         String customOpLibrary = (String) options.get("customOpLibrary");
         if (customOpLibrary != null) {
             ortSession.registerCustomOpLibrary(customOpLibrary);
diff --git a/engines/onnxruntime/onnxruntime-engine/src/main/java/ai/djl/onnxruntime/engine/OrtNDManager.java b/engines/onnxruntime/onnxruntime-engine/src/main/java/ai/djl/onnxruntime/engine/OrtNDManager.java
index 3cfbddce660..f18ad30a0fd 100644
--- a/engines/onnxruntime/onnxruntime-engine/src/main/java/ai/djl/onnxruntime/engine/OrtNDManager.java
+++ b/engines/onnxruntime/onnxruntime-engine/src/main/java/ai/djl/onnxruntime/engine/OrtNDManager.java
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ public void close() {
     private static final class SystemManager extends OrtNDManager implements SystemNDManager {
 
         SystemManager() {
-            super(null, null, OrtEnvironment.getEnvironment());
+            super(null, null, ((OrtEngine) Engine.getEngine(OrtEngine.ENGINE_NAME)).getEnv());
         }
 
         /** {@inheritDoc} */
diff --git a/engines/onnxruntime/onnxruntime-engine/src/test/java/ai/djl/onnxruntime/engine/OrtTest.java b/engines/onnxruntime/onnxruntime-engine/src/test/java/ai/djl/onnxruntime/engine/OrtTest.java
index 6287bd526a3..5bf1f1a4d3f 100644
--- a/engines/onnxruntime/onnxruntime-engine/src/test/java/ai/djl/onnxruntime/engine/OrtTest.java
+++ b/engines/onnxruntime/onnxruntime-engine/src/test/java/ai/djl/onnxruntime/engine/OrtTest.java
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 
 import org.testng.Assert;
 import org.testng.SkipException;
+import org.testng.annotations.BeforeClass;
 import org.testng.annotations.Test;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
@@ -39,6 +40,12 @@
 
 public class OrtTest {
 
+    @BeforeClass
+    public void setUp() {
+        System.setProperty("ai.djl.onnxruntime.num_threads", "1");
+        System.setProperty("ai.djl.onnxruntime.num_interop_threads", "1");
+    }
+
     @Test
     public void testOrt() throws TranslateException, ModelException, IOException {
         try {
@@ -52,6 +59,7 @@ public void testOrt() throws TranslateException, ModelException, IOException {
                             .optOption("optLevel", "NO_OPT")
                             .optOption("memoryPatternOptimization", "true")
                             .optOption("cpuArenaAllocator", "true")
+                            .optOption("disablePerSessionThreads", "true")
                             .build();
 
             IrisFlower virginica = new IrisFlower(1.0f, 2.0f, 3.0f, 4.0f);