diff --git a/src/cpp/src/whisper/pipeline.cpp b/src/cpp/src/whisper/pipeline.cpp
index a3c18fe0ce..781956f919 100644
--- a/src/cpp/src/whisper/pipeline.cpp
+++ b/src/cpp/src/whisper/pipeline.cpp
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ ov::genai::WhisperPipeline::WhisperPipeline(const std::filesystem::path& models_
     auto start_time = std::chrono::steady_clock::now();
     if (device == "NPU") {
         auto properties_copy = properties;
-        const bool use_static_pipeline = utils::pop_or_default(properties_copy, "STATIC_PIPELINE", true);
+        const bool use_static_pipeline = utils::pop_or_default(properties_copy, "STATIC_PIPELINE", false);
         if (!use_static_pipeline) {
             m_impl = std::make_unique<WhisperPipelineStatefulImpl>(models_path, device, properties_copy);
         } else {
diff --git a/tests/python_tests/test_whisper_pipeline_static.py b/tests/python_tests/test_whisper_pipeline_static.py
index bb68e64634..44f5724df8 100644
--- a/tests/python_tests/test_whisper_pipeline_static.py
+++ b/tests/python_tests/test_whisper_pipeline_static.py
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@
 # and robustness of the WhisperStaticPipeline on NPUW:CPU.
 config = {"NPU_USE_NPUW" : "YES",
           "NPUW_DEVICES" : "CPU",
-          "NPUW_ONLINE_PIPELINE" : "NONE"}
+          "NPUW_ONLINE_PIPELINE" : "NONE",
+          "STATIC_PIPELINE": True}
 
 def load_and_save_whisper_model(params, stateful=False, **tokenizer_kwargs):
     model_id, path = params