diff --git a/tests/public-api/test_solvers_jobs_api.py b/tests/public-api/test_solvers_jobs_api.py
index 83250c63c69e..f4895b4818b7 100644
--- a/tests/public-api/test_solvers_jobs_api.py
+++ b/tests/public-api/test_solvers_jobs_api.py
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ def test_create_job(
     # only 404 are retried, the rest are failures
     retry=retry_if_exception_type(TryAgain),
     wait=wait_fixed(1),
-    stop=stop_after_attempt(5),
+    stop=stop_after_attempt(3),
     after=after_log(logger, logging.WARNING),
     reraise=True,
 )