diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index e6eb7541..d0dd62e6 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "arc-state"
-version = "0.9.32"
+version = "0.9.33"
 description = "State is a machine learning model that predicts cellular perturbation response across diverse contexts."
 readme = "README.md"
 authors = [
diff --git a/src/state/_cli/_tx/_predict.py b/src/state/_cli/_tx/_predict.py
index 6967978f..b0bbecd7 100644
--- a/src/state/_cli/_tx/_predict.py
+++ b/src/state/_cli/_tx/_predict.py
@@ -52,6 +52,13 @@ def add_arguments_predict(parser: ap.ArgumentParser):
         help="If set, evaluate the model on the training data rather than on the test data.",
     )
 
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--fdr-threshold",
+        type=float,
+        default=1e-3,
+        help="FDR threshold for DE significance in cell-eval metrics. Default is 1e-3.",
+    )
+
 
 def run_tx_predict(args: ap.ArgumentParser):
     import logging
@@ -422,6 +429,7 @@ def load_config(cfg_path: str) -> dict:
                 prefix=ct,
                 pdex_kwargs=pdex_kwargs,
                 batch_size=2048,
+                fdr_threshold=args.fdr_threshold,
             )
 
             evaluator.compute(