diff --git a/ui/src/components/CaptionSimpleJob.tsx b/ui/src/components/CaptionSimpleJob.tsx
index 3805e08..6ec03d1 100644
--- a/ui/src/components/CaptionSimpleJob.tsx
+++ b/ui/src/components/CaptionSimpleJob.tsx
@@ -288,11 +288,13 @@ const CaptionSimpleJob: React.FC<Props> = ({ jobConfig, setJobConfig, gpuIDs, se
               checked={jobConfig.config.process[0].caption.recaption}
               onChange={value => setJobConfig(value, 'config.process[0].caption.recaption')}
             />
-            <Checkbox
-              label="Compile Models"
-              checked={jobConfig.config.process[0].caption.compile || false}
-              onChange={value => setJobConfig(value, 'config.process[0].caption.compile')}
-            />
+            {!selectedCaptionOption?.noCompile && (
+              <Checkbox
+                label="Compile Models"
+                checked={jobConfig.config.process[0].caption.compile || false}
+                onChange={value => setJobConfig(value, 'config.process[0].caption.compile')}
+              />
+            )}
             {additionalSections.includes('caption.extract_vocals_before_transcribe') && (
               <Checkbox
                 label="Extract Vocals Before Transcribing"
diff --git a/ui/src/helpers/captionOptions.ts b/ui/src/helpers/captionOptions.ts
index d36c603..6f669f9 100644
--- a/ui/src/helpers/captionOptions.ts
+++ b/ui/src/helpers/captionOptions.ts
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ export interface CaptionOption {
     minNewTokens?: number;
     // captioner can run LoRAs on its model (applied as sidechains, never merged)
     supportsLoras?: boolean;
+    // compile is a no-op for this captioner (its decode is already CUDA-graphed)
+    noCompile?: boolean;
     // LoRAs published for this model, offered in the LoRA browser alongside
     // local files. Paths are 'org/repo/path_to/file.safetensors'; the captioner
     // searches the models folder for the file before downloading it to loras/.
@@ -254,6 +256,7 @@ export const captionerTypes: CaptionOption[] = [
         label: 'Qwen3.8 27B',
         group: 'image/video',
         supportsLoras: true,
+        noCompile: true,
         defaults: {
             'config.process[0].caption.loras': [[], undefined],
             'config.process[0].caption.model_name_or_path': ['Comfy-Org/Qwen3.8-27B/text_encoders/qwen3.8_27b_w4a8.safetensors', defaultNameOrPath],