Heads up before Nov 15! 24 Workers AI models are being deprecated
Hi everyone, it's Shii-chan! Here's a time-sensitive note for anyone using Workers AI.
Cloudflare Changelog
developers.cloudflare.com
What was announced?
The Cloudflare Changelog announced planned model deprecations on Workers AI. Cloudflare is refreshing the catalog to make room for new releases, and asks you to remove references to the listed models before November 15, 2026.
The story so far
Workers AI runs inference by model ID (the @cf/... format). If your app keeps pointing at a deprecated model, it will stop working after the deprecation date.
What changes
- Apps that use the listed models must switch to other models by November 15
- Newer models are recommended for better token efficiency and throughput
- Check the Workers AI pricing page for costs
Dive Deep
Recommended LLM replacements
- For frontier needs:
@cf/deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017/@cf/zai-org/glm-5.3 - For smaller models:
@cf/google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it/@cf/qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Deprecated LLMs (16)
@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 (deprecated → 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)
Wrap-up
- 24 models are deprecated on November 15, 2026
- Two frontier and two small LLM replacements are recommended
- Image, speech, vision, and embedding models have one-to-one replacements
If you run Workers AI in production, search your code for these model IDs today!
