diff --git a/playwright.config.js b/playwright.config.js
index f400189f150..9992299ab73 100644
--- a/playwright.config.js
+++ b/playwright.config.js
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ const webServerConfig = {
 
 const shouldStartWebServer = process.env.E2E_TEST_ENV === "local"
 
+const maxRetries = 1;
+
 export default defineConfig({
   testDir: 'src/e2e/specs',
   /* Maximum time one test can run for. */
@@ -51,10 +53,10 @@ export default defineConfig({
   forbidOnly: !!process.env.CI,
 
   /* Limit the number of failures */
-  maxFailures: 1,
+  maxFailures: maxRetries * 2,
 
   /* Retry on CI only */
-  retries: process.env.CI ? 1 : 0,
+  retries: process.env.CI ? maxRetries : 0,
 
   /* Use a custom percentage of available wokers in CI and use default locally. */
   workers: process.env.CI ? "75%" : undefined,