diff --git a/tempest/config.py b/tempest/config.py
index a629486..76461fb 100644
--- a/tempest/config.py
+++ b/tempest/config.py
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@
 
 ComputeFeaturesGroup = [
     cfg.BoolOpt('api_v3',
-                default=True,
+                default=False,
                 help="If false, skip all nova v3 tests."),
     cfg.BoolOpt('disk_config',
                 default=True,