diff --git a/src/node/blockmanager_args.cpp b/src/node/blockmanager_args.cpp
--- a/src/node/blockmanager_args.cpp
+++ b/src/node/blockmanager_args.cpp
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
     uint64_t nPruneTarget{uint64_t(nPruneArg) * 1024 * 1024};
     // manual pruning: -prune=1
     if (nPruneArg == 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.  "
diff --git a/src/node/blockstorage.h b/src/node/blockstorage.h
--- a/src/node/blockstorage.h
+++ b/src/node/blockstorage.h
@@ -201,6 +201,8 @@
     [[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
--- a/src/node/chainstate.cpp
+++ b/src/node/chainstate.cpp
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@
                   chainman.GetConsensus().nMinimumChainWork.GetHex());
     }
     if (chainman.m_blockman.GetPruneTarget() ==
-        std::numeric_limits<uint64_t>::max()) {
+        BlockManager::PRUNE_TARGET_MANUAL) {
         LogPrintf(
             "Block pruning enabled.  Use RPC call pruneblockchain(height) to "
             "manually prune block and undo files.\n");
diff --git a/src/rpc/blockchain.cpp b/src/rpc/blockchain.cpp
--- a/src/rpc/blockchain.cpp
+++ b/src/rpc/blockchain.cpp
@@ -1337,7 +1337,6 @@
             const JSONRPCRequest &request) -> UniValue {
             const CChainParams &chainparams = config.GetChainParams();
 
-            const ArgsManager &args{EnsureAnyArgsman(request.context)};
             ChainstateManager &chainman = EnsureAnyChainman(request.context);
             LOCK(cs_main);
             Chainstate &active_chainstate = chainman.ActiveChainstate();
@@ -1370,8 +1369,9 @@
                 obj.pushKV("pruneheight",
                            node::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",