diff --git a/common/common.cpp b/common/common.cpp
index 6b937f729ec2c..d748e69242126 100644
--- a/common/common.cpp
+++ b/common/common.cpp
@@ -424,6 +424,12 @@ bool gpt_params_parse(int argc, char ** argv, gpt_params & params) {
                 break;
             }
             params.ppl_stride = std::stoi(argv[i]);
+        } else if (arg == "--ppl-output-type") {
+            if (++i >= argc) {
+                invalid_param = true;
+                break;
+            }
+            params.ppl_output_type = std::stoi(argv[i]);
         } else if (arg == "--hellaswag") {
             params.hellaswag = true;
         } else if (arg == "--hellaswag-tasks") {
diff --git a/common/common.h b/common/common.h
index 184092f064683..6e22177a6b49f 100644
--- a/common/common.h
+++ b/common/common.h
@@ -65,7 +65,9 @@ struct gpt_params {
     std::string lora_base    = "";  // base model path for the lora adapter
 
     int  ppl_stride        = 0;     // stride for perplexity calculations. If left at 0, the pre-existing approach will be used.
-                                    // 
+    int  ppl_output_type   = 0;     // = 0 -> ppl output is as usual, = 1 -> ppl output is num_tokens, ppl, one per line
+                                    //                                       (which is more convenient to use for plotting)
+                                    //
     bool hellaswag         = false; // compute HellaSwag score over random tasks from datafile supplied in prompt
     size_t hellaswag_tasks = 400;   // number of tasks to use when computing the HellaSwag score
 
diff --git a/examples/perplexity/perplexity.cpp b/examples/perplexity/perplexity.cpp
index 22425e14fdf9f..e89725efc3db6 100644
--- a/examples/perplexity/perplexity.cpp
+++ b/examples/perplexity/perplexity.cpp
@@ -125,7 +125,11 @@ void perplexity_v2(llama_context * ctx, const gpt_params & params) {
             ++count;
         }
         // perplexity is e^(average negative log-likelihood)
-        printf("[%d]%.4lf,", i + 1, std::exp(nll / count));
+        if (params.ppl_output_type == 0) {
+            printf("[%d]%.4lf,", i + 1, std::exp(nll / count));
+        } else {
+            printf("%8d  %.4lf\n", i*params.ppl_stride, std::exp(nll / count));
+        }
         fflush(stdout);
     }
     printf("\n");
@@ -226,7 +230,11 @@ void perplexity(llama_context * ctx, const gpt_params & params) {
             ++count;
         }
         // perplexity is e^(average negative log-likelihood)
-        printf("[%d]%.4lf,", i + 1, std::exp(nll / count));
+        if (params.ppl_output_type == 0) {
+            printf("[%d]%.4lf,", i + 1, std::exp(nll / count));
+        } else {
+            printf("%8d  %.4lf\n", i*params.n_ctx, std::exp(nll / count));
+        }
         fflush(stdout);
     }
     printf("\n");