diff --git a/src/node/blockmanager_args.cpp b/src/node/blockmanager_args.cpp
index 876d5d2e571..5fb5c8beed6 100644
--- a/src/node/blockmanager_args.cpp
+++ b/src/node/blockmanager_args.cpp
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ std::optional<bilingual_str> ApplyArgsManOptions(const ArgsManager& args, BlockM
     }
     uint64_t nPruneTarget{uint64_t(nPruneArg) * 1024 * 1024};
     if (nPruneArg == 1) { // manual pruning: -prune=1
-        nPruneTarget = std::numeric_limits<uint64_t>::max();
+        nPruneTarget = BlockManager::PRUNE_TARGET_MANUAL;
     } else if (nPruneTarget) {
         if (nPruneTarget < MIN_DISK_SPACE_FOR_BLOCK_FILES) {
             return strprintf(_("Prune configured below the minimum of %d MiB.  Please use a higher number."), MIN_DISK_SPACE_FOR_BLOCK_FILES / 1024 / 1024);
diff --git a/src/node/blockstorage.h b/src/node/blockstorage.h
index de9b1c0bb57..5ba0045b8b3 100644
--- a/src/node/blockstorage.h
+++ b/src/node/blockstorage.h
@@ -195,6 +195,7 @@ public:
 
     /** Attempt to stay below this number of bytes of block files. */
     [[nodiscard]] uint64_t GetPruneTarget() const { return m_opts.prune_target; }
+    static constexpr auto PRUNE_TARGET_MANUAL{std::numeric_limits<uint64_t>::max()};
 
     [[nodiscard]] bool LoadingBlocks() const { return m_importing || fReindex; }
 
diff --git a/src/node/chainstate.cpp b/src/node/chainstate.cpp
index 125d6de5a54..cfd34725921 100644
--- a/src/node/chainstate.cpp
+++ b/src/node/chainstate.cpp
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ ChainstateLoadResult LoadChainstate(ChainstateManager& chainman, const CacheSize
     if (chainman.MinimumChainWork() < UintToArith256(chainman.GetConsensus().nMinimumChainWork)) {
         LogPrintf("Warning: nMinimumChainWork set below default value of %s\n", chainman.GetConsensus().nMinimumChainWork.GetHex());
     }
-    if (chainman.m_blockman.GetPruneTarget() == std::numeric_limits<uint64_t>::max()) {
+    if (chainman.m_blockman.GetPruneTarget() == BlockManager::PRUNE_TARGET_MANUAL) {
         LogPrintf("Block pruning enabled.  Use RPC call pruneblockchain(height) to manually prune block and undo files.\n");
     } else if (chainman.m_blockman.GetPruneTarget()) {
         LogPrintf("Prune configured to target %u MiB on disk for block and undo files.\n", chainman.m_blockman.GetPruneTarget() / 1024 / 1024);
diff --git a/src/rpc/blockchain.cpp b/src/rpc/blockchain.cpp
index 5afa4600758..1a9b265fbea 100644
--- a/src/rpc/blockchain.cpp
+++ b/src/rpc/blockchain.cpp
@@ -1249,7 +1249,6 @@ RPCHelpMan getblockchaininfo()
         },
         [&](const RPCHelpMan& self, const JSONRPCRequest& request) -> UniValue
 {
-    const ArgsManager& args{EnsureAnyArgsman(request.context)};
     ChainstateManager& chainman = EnsureAnyChainman(request.context);
     LOCK(cs_main);
     Chainstate& active_chainstate = chainman.ActiveChainstate();
@@ -1272,8 +1271,7 @@ RPCHelpMan getblockchaininfo()
     if (chainman.m_blockman.IsPruneMode()) {
         obj.pushKV("pruneheight", chainman.m_blockman.GetFirstStoredBlock(tip)->nHeight);
 
-        // if 0, execution bypasses the whole if block.
-        bool automatic_pruning{args.GetIntArg("-prune", 0) != 1};
+        const bool automatic_pruning{chainman.m_blockman.GetPruneTarget() != BlockManager::PRUNE_TARGET_MANUAL};
         obj.pushKV("automatic_pruning",  automatic_pruning);
         if (automatic_pruning) {
             obj.pushKV("prune_target_size", chainman.m_blockman.GetPruneTarget());