diff --git a/invokeai/app/services/config/config_default.py b/invokeai/app/services/config/config_default.py
index 65af5bc1c4..c1364211ae 100644
--- a/invokeai/app/services/config/config_default.py
+++ b/invokeai/app/services/config/config_default.py
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ class InvokeAIAppConfig(InvokeAISettings):
     attention_type      : Literal["auto", "normal", "xformers", "sliced", "torch-sdp"] = Field(default="auto", description="Attention type", json_schema_extra=Categories.Generation)
     attention_slice_size: Literal["auto", "balanced", "max", 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8] = Field(default="auto", description='Slice size, valid when attention_type=="sliced"', json_schema_extra=Categories.Generation)
     force_tiled_decode  : bool = Field(default=False, description="Whether to enable tiled VAE decode (reduces memory consumption with some performance penalty)", json_schema_extra=Categories.Generation)
-    png_compress_level  : int = Field(default=6, description="The compress_level setting of PIL.Image.save(), used for PNG encoding. All settings are lossless. 0 = fastest, largest filesize, 9 = slowest, smallest filesize", json_schema_extra=Categories.Generation)
+    png_compress_level  : int = Field(default=1, description="The compress_level setting of PIL.Image.save(), used for PNG encoding. All settings are lossless. 0 = fastest, largest filesize, 9 = slowest, smallest filesize", json_schema_extra=Categories.Generation)
 
     # QUEUE
     max_queue_size      : int = Field(default=10000, gt=0, description="Maximum number of items in the session queue", json_schema_extra=Categories.Queue)