diff --git a/gateway/src/task.rs b/gateway/src/task.rs
index 1fc27ca54..97274db53 100644
--- a/gateway/src/task.rs
+++ b/gateway/src/task.rs
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ impl Task<ProjectContext> for RunUntilDone {
     async fn poll(&mut self, ctx: ProjectContext) -> TaskResult<Self::Output, Self::Error> {
         // Don't overload Docker with requests. Therefore backoff with each try up to 30 seconds
         if self.tries > 0 {
-            let backoff = min(3_u64.pow(self.tries), 30_000);
+            let backoff = min(2_u64.pow(self.tries), 300);
 
             sleep(Duration::from_millis(backoff)).await;
         }