diff --git a/api/src/engine/engine.resolver.ts b/api/src/engine/engine.resolver.ts
index dfd7dc73ca78f22ce7378ef82895bb99db54f42b..a954ed3b004e46c8b2cce19ebbc327ac24c2abfe 100644
--- a/api/src/engine/engine.resolver.ts
+++ b/api/src/engine/engine.resolver.ts
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ export class EngineResolver {
   @Mutation(() => Experiment)
   async createExperiment(
     @Args('data') experimentCreateInput: ExperimentCreateInput,
-    @Args('transient', { nullable: true, defaultValue: false })
+    @Args('isTransient', { nullable: true, defaultValue: false })
     isTransient: boolean,
   ) {
     return this.engineService.createExperiment(
diff --git a/api/src/schema.gql b/api/src/schema.gql
index 0f1a08208f5ba53e6378446eb9b3db77733a71ca..fc53b738b631a6dc35e5e162889f12f1c726df06 100644
--- a/api/src/schema.gql
+++ b/api/src/schema.gql
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ type Query {
 }
 
 type Mutation {
-  createExperiment(transient: Boolean = false, data: ExperimentCreateInput!): Experiment!
+  createExperiment(isTransient: Boolean = false, data: ExperimentCreateInput!): Experiment!
   editExperiment(data: ExperimentEditInput!, uuid: String!): Experiment!
   removeExperiment(uuid: String!): PartialExperiment!
 }