diff --git a/nodes.py b/nodes.py
index 6ea6522..ca11ca1 100644
--- a/nodes.py
+++ b/nodes.py
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ class CLIPtionBeamSearchIntegrated(io.ComfyNode):
                 io.Image.Input("image"),
                 io.Int.Input(
                     "beam_width",
-                    default=4,
+                    default=9,
                     min=1,
                     max=64,
                     tooltip="Number of beams to maintain during search.",
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 953f743..a04b883 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [project]
 name = "comfyui-cliption-integrated"
 description = "Integrated beam-search-only fork of pharmapsychotic's ComfyUI-Cliption, combining the CLIPtion loader and beam search into a single node"
-version = "0.1.3"
+version = "0.1.4"
 license = { text = "MIT" }
 
 [project.urls]