diff --git a/src/main/java/org/broadinstitute/hellbender/tools/walkers/vqsr/CNNScoreVariants.java b/src/main/java/org/broadinstitute/hellbender/tools/walkers/vqsr/CNNScoreVariants.java
index a17da13b0cf..88e71d7df40 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/broadinstitute/hellbender/tools/walkers/vqsr/CNNScoreVariants.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/broadinstitute/hellbender/tools/walkers/vqsr/CNNScoreVariants.java
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@
  *   -weights path/to/my_model_folder/2dmodel.hd5
  * </pre>
  */
+@DeprecatedFeature
 @DocumentedFeature
 @CommandLineProgramProperties(
         summary = CNNScoreVariants.USAGE_SUMMARY,
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/broadinstitute/hellbender/tools/walkers/vqsr/CNNVariantTrain.java b/src/main/java/org/broadinstitute/hellbender/tools/walkers/vqsr/CNNVariantTrain.java
index 32ea3568b10..8fe917a2cff 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/broadinstitute/hellbender/tools/walkers/vqsr/CNNVariantTrain.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/broadinstitute/hellbender/tools/walkers/vqsr/CNNVariantTrain.java
@@ -57,8 +57,8 @@
         oneLineSummary = "Train a CNN model for filtering variants",
         programGroup = VariantFilteringProgramGroup.class
 )
+@DeprecatedFeature
 @DocumentedFeature
-@ExperimentalFeature
 public class CNNVariantTrain extends CommandLineProgram {
 
     @Argument(fullName = "input-tensor-dir", shortName = "input-tensor-dir", doc = "Directory of training tensors to create.")
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/broadinstitute/hellbender/tools/walkers/vqsr/CNNVariantWriteTensors.java b/src/main/java/org/broadinstitute/hellbender/tools/walkers/vqsr/CNNVariantWriteTensors.java
index 0fd0ec79e17..49ce59bdd0c 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/broadinstitute/hellbender/tools/walkers/vqsr/CNNVariantWriteTensors.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/broadinstitute/hellbender/tools/walkers/vqsr/CNNVariantWriteTensors.java
@@ -71,8 +71,8 @@
         oneLineSummary = "Write variant tensors for training a CNN to filter variants",
         programGroup = VariantFilteringProgramGroup.class
 )
+@DeprecatedFeature
 @DocumentedFeature
-@ExperimentalFeature
 public class CNNVariantWriteTensors extends CommandLineProgram {
 
     @Argument(fullName = StandardArgumentDefinitions.REFERENCE_LONG_NAME,