diff --git a/streamingpro-core/src/main/java/streaming/dsl/load/batch/ModelExplain.scala b/streamingpro-core/src/main/java/streaming/dsl/load/batch/ModelExplain.scala
index 1a5862837..627840a54 100644
--- a/streamingpro-core/src/main/java/streaming/dsl/load/batch/ModelExplain.scala
+++ b/streamingpro-core/src/main/java/streaming/dsl/load/batch/ModelExplain.scala
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ package streaming.dsl.load.batch
 import org.apache.spark.sql.types.{StringType, StructField, StructType}
 import org.apache.spark.sql.{DataFrame, Row, SparkSession}
 import tech.mlsql.dsl.adaptor.MLMapping
+import tech.mlsql.tool.HDFSOperatorV2
 
 
 /**
@@ -217,7 +218,32 @@ class ModelExplain(format: String, path: String, option: Map[String, String])(sp
     if ((format == "model" && path == "explain"))
       option("path")
     else {
-      path
+      option.get("index") match {
+          // If user specifies index, try to find _model_n subdirectory
+        case Some(idx) =>
+          val subDirs = HDFSOperatorV2.listFiles(path)
+              .filter( _.isDirectory )
+          val _modelDirExists = subDirs.exists( _.getPath.getName.startsWith("_model_"))
+          val _modelIdxDirExists = subDirs.exists( s"_model_${idx}" == _.getPath.getName)
+          val metaDirExists =  subDirs.exists( "meta" == _.getPath.getName)
+          val modelDirExists = subDirs.exists( "model" == _.getPath.getName)
+          if( _modelDirExists && _modelIdxDirExists) {
+            s"${path}/_model_${idx}"
+          }
+          else if( _modelDirExists && ! _modelIdxDirExists ) {
+            throw new RuntimeException(s"model directory with index ${idx} does not exist")
+          }
+          else if( metaDirExists && modelDirExists ) {
+            // `keepVersion`="false", index option is ignored.
+            path
+          }
+          else {
+            throw new RuntimeException(s"${path}/_model_${idx} does not exist")
+          }
+
+          // If keepVersion is not enabled
+        case None => path
+      }
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/streamingpro-it/src/test/resources/sql/simple/23_random_forest_model_explain.mlsql b/streamingpro-it/src/test/resources/sql/simple/23_random_forest_model_explain.mlsql
index d7dc057ac..67ff7508b 100644
--- a/streamingpro-it/src/test/resources/sql/simple/23_random_forest_model_explain.mlsql
+++ b/streamingpro-it/src/test/resources/sql/simple/23_random_forest_model_explain.mlsql
@@ -35,4 +35,9 @@ load modelExplain.`/tmp/model/_model_0/` where alg="RandomForest" as output_1;
 
 select `name` from output_1 where name="uid" as result;
 
-!assert result ''':name=="uid"'''  "RandomForest modelExplain should be successful";
\ No newline at end of file
+!assert result ''':name=="uid"'''  "RandomForest modelExplain should be successful";
+
+
+load modelExplain.`/tmp/model/_model_0/` where alg="RandomForest" and index = "0" as output_2;
+select `name` from output_2 where name="uid" as result_2;
+!assert result_2 ''':name=="uid"'''  "RandomForest modelExplain should be successful";