diff --git a/lib/canvas/generate-image.ts b/lib/canvas/generate-image.ts
index 67eaff122..81b2eb029 100644
--- a/lib/canvas/generate-image.ts
+++ b/lib/canvas/generate-image.ts
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ import {
   recordCanvasImageModelExecutionDuration,
 } from "./image-concurrency";
 import {
+  classifyAiModelHealthFailure,
   recordAiModelHealthFailure,
   recordAiModelHealthSuccess,
   shouldFailoverAiModelError,
@@ -126,6 +127,7 @@ export interface CanvasGenerateImageRequest {
   internalRetryVariantIndex?: number;
   allowFailover?: boolean;
   internalFailoverTriedModelRefs?: string[];
+  internalFailoverTriedProviderTypes?: string[];
   onQueueStatusChange?: (
     status: CanvasImageModelQueueStatus & {
       modelName?: string | null;
@@ -3320,6 +3322,7 @@ function findCanvasFailoverModel(params: {
   selectedModel: CanvasModelWithProvider;
   imageModels: CanvasModelWithProvider[];
   failedModelRefs: string[];
+  failedProviderTypes?: string[];
   preferLowCostSameNameProviders?: boolean;
   requiresImageInput?: boolean;
   requiresTextToImage?: boolean;
@@ -3328,6 +3331,11 @@ function findCanvasFailoverModel(params: {
   const failedRefs = new Set(
     params.failedModelRefs.map((item) => String(item || "").trim()).filter(Boolean)
   );
+  const failedProviderTypes = new Set(
+    (params.failedProviderTypes || [])
+      .map((item) => String(item || "").trim())
+      .filter(Boolean)
+  );
   const strictScaleAdjustModelFamily =
     params.preferLowCostSameNameProviders &&
     typeof params.scaleAdjustModelFamily === "string" &&
@@ -3360,6 +3368,7 @@ function findCanvasFailoverModel(params: {
     ) {
       return false;
     }
+    if (failedProviderTypes.has(item.provider.type)) return false;
     if (!item.model.supportsImageGen) return false;
     if (
       params.requiresImageInput &&
@@ -4210,11 +4219,25 @@ export async function generateCanvasImage(
     (!scaleAdjustRejected &&
       Boolean(debugMeta?.detailFixedModelApplied) &&
       Boolean(caughtError));
+  const failureClassification = classifyAiModelHealthFailure(caughtError);
+  const failedProviderTypes = Array.from(
+    new Set([
+      ...(Array.isArray(request.internalFailoverTriedProviderTypes)
+        ? request.internalFailoverTriedProviderTypes
+        : []),
+      ...(shouldFailover &&
+      failureClassification.reason !== "non_provider_failure" &&
+      failureClassification.reason !== "user_cancelled"
+        ? [provider.type]
+        : []),
+    ].filter(Boolean))
+  );
   const fallbackModel = allowFailover && shouldFailover
     ? findCanvasFailoverModel({
         selectedModel,
         imageModels,
         failedModelRefs,
+        failedProviderTypes,
         preferLowCostSameNameProviders: Boolean(
           debugMeta?.scaleAdjustPreferSameNameProviderFailover
         ),
@@ -4240,6 +4263,7 @@ export async function generateCanvasImage(
       ...request,
       model: fallbackModel.model.id,
       internalFailoverTriedModelRefs: failedModelRefs,
+      internalFailoverTriedProviderTypes: failedProviderTypes,
       debugMeta: {
         ...debugMeta,
         failoverFromModelId: selectedModel.model.modelId,