Workers AI - Planned model deprecations on Workers AI

We are refreshing the Workers AI model catalog to make room for new releases and updated models. Update your apps to remove references to the models listed below before November 15, 2026.

We recommend moving to newer models for the best token efficiency and throughput. For pricing, refer to the Workers AI pricing page.

Recommended LLM replacements

• For frontier model needs: @cf/deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017 and @cf/zai-org/glm-5.3.
• For smaller model needs: @cf/google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it and @cf/qwen/qwen3.8-27b.

Models deprecated on November 15, 2026

LLMs

• @cf/deepseek-ai/deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-32b
• @cf/nvidia/nemotron-3-120b-a12b
• @cf/deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4-pro-0813
• @cf/deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4-flash-0731
• @cf/qwen/qwq-32b
• @cf/qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b-fp8
• @cf/moonshotai/kimi-k2.6
• @cf/moonshotai/kimi-k2.7-code
• @cf/zai-org/glm-5.2
• @cf/zai-org/glm-5.3-flash
• @cf/meta-llama/llama-2-7b-chat-hf-lora
• @cf/google/gemma-2b-it-lora
• @cf/google/gemma-7b-it-lora
• @cf/meta/llama-3.1-8b-instruct-fp8
• @cf/meta/llama-3.2-1b-instruct
• @cf/meta/llama-3.2-3b-instruct

Other models

Each deprecated model is followed by its suggested replacement.

• @cf/myshell-ai/melotts → @cf/deepgram/aura-2-en
• @cf/stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0 → @cf/black-forest-labs/flux-2-klein-9b
• @cf/runwayml/stable-diffusion-v1-5-inpainting → @cf/black-forest-labs/flux-2-klein-9b
• @cf/bytedance/stable-diffusion-xl-lightning → @cf/black-forest-labs/flux-2-klein-9b
• @cf/lykon/dreamshaper-8-lcm → @cf/black-forest-labs/flux-2-klein-9b
• @cf/openai/whisper-tiny-en → @cf/deepgram/nova-3
• @cf/llava-hf/llava-1.5-7b-hf → @cf/moondream/moondream3.1-9B-A2B
• @cf/google/embeddinggemma-300m → @cf/google/embeddinggemma-2 (available soon)

For the full list of available models, refer to the Workers AI model catalog.