diff --git a/.changeset/wicked-apples-teach.md b/.changeset/wicked-apples-teach.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..48dc03d16
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/wicked-apples-teach.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'@hey-api/openapi-ts': patch
+---
+
+fix: add ability to skip generating index file with output.indexFile
diff --git a/packages/openapi-ts/src/generate/output.ts b/packages/openapi-ts/src/generate/output.ts
index 4c66c6a7a..58f9f97ce 100644
--- a/packages/openapi-ts/src/generate/output.ts
+++ b/packages/openapi-ts/src/generate/output.ts
@@ -143,7 +143,11 @@ export const generateOutput = async ({ context }: { context: IR.Context }) => {
         continue;
       }
 
-      if (!file.isEmpty() && file.exportFromIndex) {
+      if (
+        !file.isEmpty() &&
+        file.exportFromIndex &&
+        context.config.output.indexFile
+      ) {
         // TODO: parser - add export method for more granular control over
         // what's exported so we can support named exports
         indexFile.add(
@@ -156,6 +160,8 @@ export const generateOutput = async ({ context }: { context: IR.Context }) => {
       file.write('\n\n');
     }
 
-    indexFile.write();
+    if (context.config.output.indexFile) {
+      indexFile.write();
+    }
   }
 };
diff --git a/packages/openapi-ts/src/index.ts b/packages/openapi-ts/src/index.ts
index 730229715..ea5f2f859 100644
--- a/packages/openapi-ts/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/openapi-ts/src/index.ts
@@ -159,6 +159,7 @@ const getOutput = (userConfig: ClientConfig): Config['output'] => {
   let output: Config['output'] = {
     clean: true,
     format: false,
+    indexFile: true,
     lint: false,
     path: '',
   };
diff --git a/packages/openapi-ts/src/types/config.ts b/packages/openapi-ts/src/types/config.ts
index 9a421a659..dc5d5225a 100644
--- a/packages/openapi-ts/src/types/config.ts
+++ b/packages/openapi-ts/src/types/config.ts
@@ -170,6 +170,14 @@ export interface ClientConfig {
          * @default false
          */
         format?: Formatters | false;
+        /**
+         * Should the exports from plugin files be re-exported in the index
+         * barrel file? By default, this is enabled and only default plugins
+         * are re-exported.
+         *
+         * @default true
+         */
+        indexFile?: boolean;
         /**
          * Process output folder with linter?
          *
diff --git a/packages/openapi-ts/test/index.test.ts b/packages/openapi-ts/test/index.test.ts
index f2ac8e145..2722910f2 100644
--- a/packages/openapi-ts/test/index.test.ts
+++ b/packages/openapi-ts/test/index.test.ts
@@ -59,7 +59,9 @@ describe('OpenAPI v3', () => {
     client: 'legacy/fetch',
     exportCore: true,
     input: '',
-    output: '',
+    output: {
+      path: '',
+    },
     plugins: [
       '@hey-api/sdk',
       {
@@ -287,6 +289,18 @@ describe('OpenAPI v3', () => {
       description: 'generate legacy positional arguments',
       name: 'v3_legacy_positional_args',
     },
+    {
+      config: createConfig({
+        client: '@hey-api/client-fetch',
+        output: {
+          indexFile: false,
+          path: '',
+        },
+        plugins: ['@hey-api/typescript'],
+      }),
+      description: 'generate output without index file',
+      name: 'v3_no_index',
+    },
     {
       config: createConfig({
         plugins: [
@@ -473,7 +487,10 @@ describe('OpenAPI v3', () => {
       await createClient({
         ...config,
         input: V3_SPEC_PATH,
-        output,
+        output: {
+          ...(typeof config.output === 'object' ? config.output : {}),
+          path: output,
+        },
       });
       sync(`${output}**/*.ts`).forEach((file) => {
         const content = fs.readFileSync(file, 'utf8').toString();