diff --git a/onnxruntime/core/framework/session_options.h b/onnxruntime/core/framework/session_options.h
index 3ab220b0b6..aaefc50cc6 100644
--- a/onnxruntime/core/framework/session_options.h
+++ b/onnxruntime/core/framework/session_options.h
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ struct SessionOptions {
   int session_log_severity_level = -1;
   int session_log_verbosity_level = 0;  ///< VLOG level if debug build and session_log_severity_level is 0 (VERBOSE).
 
-  unsigned max_num_graph_transformation_steps = 5;  // TODO choose a good default here?
+  unsigned max_num_graph_transformation_steps = 10;  // TODO choose a good default here?
 
   // set graph optimization level
   TransformerLevel graph_optimization_level = TransformerLevel::Level1;