diff --git a/tests/test_downloads_tab_workflow_route.mjs b/tests/test_downloads_tab_workflow_route.mjs
index 4635b55..a2a6d79 100644
--- a/tests/test_downloads_tab_workflow_route.mjs
+++ b/tests/test_downloads_tab_workflow_route.mjs
@@ -4211,6 +4211,99 @@ test('auto base model keeps workflow path context when a delayed search result d
   assert.match(info.message, /To change: Choose a different option in the Model field/);
 });
 
+test('auto base model uses active widgets instead of workflow model metadata', () => {
+  const getWorkflowModelReferenceText = eval(`(${extractMethod(searchPanelMethodsSource, 'getWorkflowModelReferenceText')})`);
+  const getDominantWorkflowBaseModel = eval(`(${extractMethod(searchPanelMethodsSource, 'getDominantWorkflowBaseModel')})`);
+  const getBaseModelIndependentSearchType = eval(`(${extractMethod(searchPanelMethodsSource, 'getBaseModelIndependentSearchType')})`);
+  const getMissingAutoBaseModelInfo = eval(`(${extractMethod(searchPanelMethodsSource, 'getMissingAutoBaseModelInfo')})`);
+  const workflow = {
+    nodes: [
+      {
+        id: 761,
+        type: 'UNETLoader',
+        widgets_values: [
+          'KREA2\\Krea2_Turbo_convrot_int8mixed.safetensors',
+          'default'
+        ],
+        widgets_values_named: {
+          unet_name: 'KREA2\\Krea2_Turbo_convrot_int8mixed.safetensors',
+          weight_dtype: 'default'
+        },
+        properties: {
+          models: [{
+            name: 'z_image_turbo_bf16.safetensors',
+            url: 'https://huggingface.co/Comfy-Org/z_image_turbo/resolve/main/split_files/diffusion_models/z_image_turbo_bf16.safetensors',
+            directory: 'diffusion_models'
+          }]
+        }
+      }
+    ],
+    extra: {
+      z_image_url: 'https://huggingface.co/Comfy-Org/z_image_turbo/resolve/main/config.json'
+    }
+  };
+  const dialog = {
+    getCurrentWorkflow() {
+      return workflow;
+    },
+    getWorkflowSignatureData() {
+      return {
+        nodes: [{
+          bypassed: false,
+          widgets_values: [{
+            index: 0,
+            value: 'KREA2\\Krea2_Turbo_convrot_int8mixed.safetensors'
+          }]
+        }],
+        definitions: {}
+      };
+    },
+    getResolvedWorkflowBaseModelScores() {
+      return new Map();
+    },
+    getBaseModelIndependentSearchType,
+    getMissingLocalBaseModel() {
+      return '';
+    },
+    resolveBaseModelAlias() {
+      return '';
+    },
+    resolveBaseModelAliasExact() {
+      return '';
+    },
+    resolveBaseModelAliasFromPath() {
+      return '';
+    },
+    getBaseModelAliases() {
+      return [
+        {
+          value: 'Z-Image',
+          aliases: ['zimage', 'z image', 'z-image', 'z_image', 'zImageTurbo', 'z image turbo']
+        },
+        { value: 'Krea 2', aliases: ['krea', 'krea 2'] }
+      ];
+    },
+    normalizeBaseModelToken(value = '') {
+      return normalizeSearchToken(value);
+    },
+    getWorkflowModelReferenceText,
+    getDominantWorkflowBaseModel,
+    getMissingAutoBaseModelInfo
+  };
+
+  const referenceText = getWorkflowModelReferenceText.call(dialog);
+  assert.match(referenceText, /Krea2_Turbo/);
+  assert.doesNotMatch(referenceText, /z_image/);
+  assert.equal(getDominantWorkflowBaseModel.call(dialog), 'Krea 2');
+
+  const info = getMissingAutoBaseModelInfo.call(dialog, {
+    name: 'Text Refusal Reduction Krea2.safetensors',
+    category: 'loras'
+  });
+  assert.equal(info.value, 'Krea 2');
+  assert.equal(info.source, 'workflow fallback');
+});
+
 test('base model path mapping ignores conflicting full-path base model', () => {
   const {
     normalizeBaseModelToken,
diff --git a/web/resolver/search/search_panel.js b/web/resolver/search/search_panel.js
index 024577d..83c906f 100644
--- a/web/resolver/search/search_panel.js
+++ b/web/resolver/search/search_panel.js
@@ -251,26 +251,77 @@ export const searchPanelMethods = {
     getWorkflowModelReferenceText() {
         const workflow = this.getCurrentWorkflow?.();
         if (!workflow) return '';
+
         const values = [];
-        const visit = (value, key = '') => {
+        const visitValue = (value) => {
             if (typeof value === 'string') {
                 if (/^urn:/i.test(value.trim())) {
                     return;
                 }
-                if (this.hasModelExtension(value) || /model|checkpoint|unet|diffusion/i.test(key)) {
-                    values.push(value);
-                }
+                values.push(value);
                 return;
             }
             if (Array.isArray(value)) {
-                value.forEach(item => visit(item, key));
+                value.forEach(visitValue);
                 return;
             }
             if (value && typeof value === 'object') {
-                Object.entries(value).forEach(([childKey, childValue]) => visit(childValue, childKey));
+                Object.values(value).forEach(visitValue);
             }
         };
-        visit(workflow);
+
+        const collectNormalizedNodes = (nodes = []) => {
+            if (!Array.isArray(nodes)) return;
+            nodes.forEach(node => {
+                if (!node || node.bypassed) return;
+                const widgetValues = Array.isArray(node.widgets_values)
+                    ? node.widgets_values
+                    : [];
+                widgetValues.forEach(widget => {
+                    if (widget && typeof widget === 'object' && 'value' in widget) {
+                        visitValue(widget.value);
+                    }
+                });
+            });
+        };
+
+        const signatureData = this.getWorkflowSignatureData?.(workflow);
+        if (signatureData && typeof signatureData === 'object') {
+            collectNormalizedNodes(signatureData.nodes);
+            Object.values(signatureData.definitions || {}).forEach(definition => {
+                if (Array.isArray(definition)) {
+                    definition.forEach(item => collectNormalizedNodes(item?.nodes));
+                } else {
+                    collectNormalizedNodes(definition?.nodes);
+                }
+            });
+        }
+
+        // Older workflow snapshots may only expose named widget values. Keep
+        // this fallback limited to model-like keys so node metadata and URLs
+        // from properties.models cannot affect the base-model inference.
+        if (!values.length) {
+            const modelKeyPattern = /model|lora|checkpoint|unet|vae|clip|encoder|control|upscale|embedding|gligen|sam/i;
+            const collectNamedValues = (nodes = []) => {
+                if (!Array.isArray(nodes)) return;
+                nodes.forEach(node => {
+                    if (!node || node.mode === 4 || !node.widgets_values_named) return;
+                    Object.entries(node.widgets_values_named).forEach(([key, value]) => {
+                        if (modelKeyPattern.test(key)) visitValue(value);
+                    });
+                });
+            };
+            collectNamedValues(workflow.nodes);
+            const definitions = workflow.definitions;
+            Object.values(definitions || {}).forEach(definition => {
+                if (Array.isArray(definition)) {
+                    definition.forEach(item => collectNamedValues(item?.nodes));
+                } else {
+                    collectNamedValues(definition?.nodes);
+                }
+            });
+        }
+
         return values.join(' ');
     },