diff --git a/lib/config.js b/lib/config.js
index 04a550bab323..721928283e3f 100644
--- a/lib/config.js
+++ b/lib/config.js
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ const Config = function () {
   this.channel = ''
   this.sccache = getNPMConfig(['sccache'])
   this.braveReferralsApiKey = getNPMConfig(['brave_referrals_api_key']) || ''
+  this.ignore_compile_failure = false
 }
 
 Config.prototype.buildArgs = function () {
@@ -262,6 +263,9 @@ Config.prototype.update = function (options) {
   if (options.gclient_verbose)
     this.gClientVerbose = options.gclient_verbose
 
+  if (options.ignore_compile_failure)
+    this.ignore_compile_failure = true
+
   this.projectNames.forEach((projectName) => {
     // don't update refs for projects that have them
     let project = this.projects[projectName]
diff --git a/lib/util.js b/lib/util.js
index 9824534c04ec..7b7e617d1c04 100644
--- a/lib/util.js
+++ b/lib/util.js
@@ -187,9 +187,13 @@ const util = {
 
     if (process.platform === 'win32') util.updateOmahaMidlFiles()
 
+    let num_compile_failure = 1
+    if (config.ignore_compile_failure)
+      num_compile_failure = 1000
+
     const args = util.buildArgsToString(config.buildArgs())
     util.run('gn', ['gen', config.outputDir, '--args="' + args + '"'], options)
-    util.run('ninja', ['-C', config.outputDir, config.buildTarget], options)
+    util.run('ninja', ['-C', config.outputDir, config.buildTarget, '-k', num_compile_failure], options)
   },
 
   submoduleSync: (options = {}) => {
diff --git a/scripts/commands.js b/scripts/commands.js
index c471b2e5ec74..2b7f1a638cb3 100644
--- a/scripts/commands.js
+++ b/scripts/commands.js
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ program
   .option('--brave_google_api_key <brave_google_api_key>')
   .option('--brave_google_api_endpoint <brave_google_api_endpoint>')
   .option('--channel <target_chanel>', 'target channel to build', /^(beta|dev|nightly|release)$/i, 'release')
+  .option('--ignore_compile_failure', 'Keep compiling regardless of error')
   .arguments('[build_config]')
   .action(build)