diff --git a/packages/web/web-search-exa/src/provider.ts b/packages/web/web-search-exa/src/provider.ts
index 3774bd5d58..cfb41cf77f 100644
--- a/packages/web/web-search-exa/src/provider.ts
+++ b/packages/web/web-search-exa/src/provider.ts
@@ -123,7 +123,6 @@ export class ExaSearchProvider implements WebSearchProvider {
       return mapExaResponse(request.query, payload)
     } catch (error: unknown) {
       if (isAbortError(error)) throw new WebError('Exa search aborted', 'WEB_ABORTED', { cause: error })
-      if (error instanceof WebError) throw error
       throw new WebError(`Exa returned an unprocessable response body: ${String(error)}`, 'WEB_PROVIDER_ERROR', { cause: error })
     }
   }
diff --git a/packages/web/web-search-perplexity/src/provider.ts b/packages/web/web-search-perplexity/src/provider.ts
index 809086026a..5b5feb897b 100644
--- a/packages/web/web-search-perplexity/src/provider.ts
+++ b/packages/web/web-search-perplexity/src/provider.ts
@@ -131,7 +131,6 @@ export class PerplexitySearchProvider implements WebSearchProvider {
       return mapPerplexityResponse(request.query, payload)
     } catch (error: unknown) {
       if (isAbortError(error)) throw new WebError('Perplexity search aborted', 'WEB_ABORTED', { cause: error })
-      if (error instanceof WebError) throw error
       throw new WebError(`Perplexity returned an unprocessable response body: ${String(error)}`, 'WEB_PROVIDER_ERROR', { cause: error })
     }
   }