diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/clusteringService.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/clusteringService.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 32c25f698..000000000
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/clusteringService.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,88 +0,0 @@
-import { DBSCAN, KMEANS, OPTICS } from "density-clustering";
-import { Hdbscan } from "hdbscan";
-import { HdbscanInput } from "hdbscan/dist/types";
-import {
-    ClusteringConfig,
-    ClusteringInput,
-    ClusteringMethod,
-    ClusteringResults,
-    HdbscanResults,
-    Versioned,
-} from "services/ml/types";
-
-class ClusteringService {
-    private dbscan: DBSCAN;
-    private optics: OPTICS;
-    private kmeans: KMEANS;
-
-    constructor() {
-        this.dbscan = new DBSCAN();
-        this.optics = new OPTICS();
-        this.kmeans = new KMEANS();
-    }
-
-    public clusterUsingDBSCAN(
-        dataset: Array<Array<number>>,
-        epsilon: number = 1.0,
-        minPts: number = 2,
-    ): ClusteringResults {
-        // log.info("distanceFunction", DBSCAN._);
-        const clusters = this.dbscan.run(dataset, epsilon, minPts);
-        const noise = this.dbscan.noise;
-        return { clusters, noise };
-    }
-
-    public clusterUsingOPTICS(
-        dataset: Array<Array<number>>,
-        epsilon: number = 1.0,
-        minPts: number = 2,
-    ) {
-        const clusters = this.optics.run(dataset, epsilon, minPts);
-        return { clusters, noise: [] };
-    }
-
-    public clusterUsingKMEANS(
-        dataset: Array<Array<number>>,
-        numClusters: number = 5,
-    ) {
-        const clusters = this.kmeans.run(dataset, numClusters);
-        return { clusters, noise: [] };
-    }
-
-    public clusterUsingHdbscan(hdbscanInput: HdbscanInput): HdbscanResults {
-        if (hdbscanInput.input.length < 10) {
-            throw Error("too few samples to run Hdbscan");
-        }
-
-        const hdbscan = new Hdbscan(hdbscanInput);
-        const clusters = hdbscan.getClusters();
-        const noise = hdbscan.getNoise();
-        const debugInfo = hdbscan.getDebugInfo();
-
-        return { clusters, noise, debugInfo };
-    }
-
-    public cluster(
-        method: Versioned<ClusteringMethod>,
-        input: ClusteringInput,
-        config: ClusteringConfig,
-    ) {
-        if (method.value === "Hdbscan") {
-            return this.clusterUsingHdbscan({
-                input,
-                minClusterSize: config.minClusterSize,
-                debug: config.generateDebugInfo,
-            });
-        } else if (method.value === "Dbscan") {
-            return this.clusterUsingDBSCAN(
-                input,
-                config.maxDistanceInsideCluster,
-                config.minClusterSize,
-            );
-        } else {
-            throw Error("Unknown clustering method: " + method.value);
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-export default ClusteringService;
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/dbscanClusteringService.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/dbscanClusteringService.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 57d181de4..000000000
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/dbscanClusteringService.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-import { DBSCAN } from "density-clustering";
-import {
-    ClusteringConfig,
-    ClusteringInput,
-    ClusteringMethod,
-    ClusteringService,
-    HdbscanResults,
-    Versioned,
-} from "services/ml/types";
-
-class DbscanClusteringService implements ClusteringService {
-    public method: Versioned<ClusteringMethod>;
-
-    constructor() {
-        this.method = {
-            value: "Dbscan",
-            version: 1,
-        };
-    }
-
-    public async cluster(
-        input: ClusteringInput,
-        config: ClusteringConfig,
-    ): Promise<HdbscanResults> {
-        // log.info('Clustering input: ', input);
-        const dbscan = new DBSCAN();
-        const clusters = dbscan.run(
-            input,
-            config.clusterSelectionEpsilon,
-            config.minClusterSize,
-        );
-        const noise = dbscan.noise;
-        return { clusters, noise };
-    }
-}
-
-export default new DbscanClusteringService();
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/faceService.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/faceService.ts
index a8957d4b2..c7802a08c 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/faceService.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/faceService.ts
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ import {
     type Versioned,
 } from "services/ml/types";
 import { imageBitmapToBlob, warpAffineFloat32List } from "utils/image";
-import { DEFAULT_ML_SYNC_CONFIG } from "./machineLearningService";
 import ReaderService, {
     fetchImageBitmap,
     getFaceId,
@@ -256,7 +255,6 @@ class FaceService {
         syncContext.mlLibraryData.faceClusteringResults =
             await syncContext.faceClusteringService.cluster(
                 allFaces.map((f) => Array.from(f.embedding)),
-                DEFAULT_ML_SYNC_CONFIG.faceClustering,
             );
         syncContext.mlLibraryData.faceClusteringMethod =
             syncContext.faceClusteringService.method;
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/hdbscanClusteringService.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/hdbscanClusteringService.ts
index bf39cd530..f6ea090d8 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/hdbscanClusteringService.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/hdbscanClusteringService.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 import { Hdbscan } from "hdbscan";
 import {
-    ClusteringConfig,
     ClusteringInput,
     ClusteringMethod,
     ClusteringService,
@@ -18,10 +17,7 @@ class HdbscanClusteringService implements ClusteringService {
         };
     }
 
-    public async cluster(
-        input: ClusteringInput,
-        config: ClusteringConfig,
-    ): Promise<HdbscanResults> {
+    public async cluster(input: ClusteringInput): Promise<HdbscanResults> {
         // log.info('Clustering input: ', input);
         const hdbscan = new Hdbscan({
             input,
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/services/ml/types.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/services/ml/types.ts
index a5e97098c..e6360dc8b 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/services/ml/types.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/services/ml/types.ts
@@ -175,8 +175,6 @@ export interface FaceEmbeddingConfig {
     generateTsne?: boolean;
 }
 
-export interface FaceClusteringConfig extends ClusteringConfig {}
-
 export declare type TSNEMetric = "euclidean" | "manhattan";
 
 export interface TSNEConfig {
@@ -197,7 +195,7 @@ export interface MLSyncConfig {
     faceAlignment: FaceAlignmentConfig;
     blurDetection: BlurDetectionConfig;
     faceEmbedding: FaceEmbeddingConfig;
-    faceClustering: FaceClusteringConfig;
+    faceClustering: any;
     mlVersion: number;
 }
 
@@ -294,21 +292,7 @@ export interface BlurDetectionService {
 export interface ClusteringService {
     method: Versioned<ClusteringMethod>;
 
-    cluster(
-        input: ClusteringInput,
-        config: ClusteringConfig,
-    ): Promise<ClusteringResults>;
-}
-
-export interface ClusteringConfig {
-    method: ClusteringMethod;
-    minClusterSize: number;
-    minSamples?: number;
-    clusterSelectionEpsilon?: number;
-    clusterSelectionMethod?: "eom" | "leaf";
-    maxDistanceInsideCluster?: number;
-    minInputSize?: number;
-    generateDebugInfo?: boolean;
+    cluster(input: ClusteringInput): Promise<ClusteringResults>;
 }
 
 export declare type ClusteringInput = Array<Array<number>>;