diff --git a/apps/api/src/controllers/crawl-cancel.ts b/apps/api/src/controllers/crawl-cancel.ts
index a5e28323..ff4b2c58 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/controllers/crawl-cancel.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/controllers/crawl-cancel.ts
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ export async function crawlCancelController(req: Request, res: Response) {
     try {
       await getWebScraperQueue().client.del(job.lockKey());
       await job.takeLock();
+      await job.discard();
       await job.moveToFailed(Error("Job cancelled by user"), true);
     } catch (error) {
       console.error(error);