diff --git a/doc/api/wasi.md b/doc/api/wasi.md
index decb9641e161f2..5430ae63d50d83 100644
--- a/doc/api/wasi.md
+++ b/doc/api/wasi.md
@@ -70,8 +70,8 @@ Use [wabt](https://github.com/WebAssembly/wabt) to compile `.wat` to `.wasm`
 $ wat2wasm demo.wat
 ```
 
-The `--experimental-wasi-unstable-preview1` and `--experimental-wasm-bigint`
-CLI arguments are needed for this example to run.
+The `--experimental-wasi-unstable-preview1` CLI argument is needed for this
+example to run.
 
 ## Class: `WASI`
 <!-- YAML
diff --git a/test/wasi/test-return-on-exit.js b/test/wasi/test-return-on-exit.js
index 3f5d40c9ba7fb8..362d13b490a96f 100644
--- a/test/wasi/test-return-on-exit.js
+++ b/test/wasi/test-return-on-exit.js
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// Flags: --experimental-wasi-unstable-preview1 --experimental-wasm-bigint
+// Flags: --experimental-wasi-unstable-preview1
 'use strict';
 const common = require('../common');
 const assert = require('assert');
diff --git a/test/wasi/test-wasi-not-started.js b/test/wasi/test-wasi-not-started.js
index ad13e6d711802b..14c8cdfddf2f5c 100644
--- a/test/wasi/test-wasi-not-started.js
+++ b/test/wasi/test-wasi-not-started.js
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ if (process.argv[2] === 'wasi-child') {
 
   const child = cp.spawnSync(process.execPath, [
     '--experimental-wasi-unstable-preview1',
-    '--experimental-wasm-bigint',
     __filename,
     'wasi-child'
   ], {
diff --git a/test/wasi/test-wasi-stdio.js b/test/wasi/test-wasi-stdio.js
index d49fa67ce75a6a..90ab7caa831c1e 100644
--- a/test/wasi/test-wasi-stdio.js
+++ b/test/wasi/test-wasi-stdio.js
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// Flags: --experimental-wasi-unstable-preview1 --experimental-wasm-bigint
+// Flags: --experimental-wasi-unstable-preview1
 'use strict';
 const common = require('../common');
 const tmpdir = require('../common/tmpdir');
diff --git a/test/wasi/test-wasi-symlinks.js b/test/wasi/test-wasi-symlinks.js
index b4f306916a9d9d..f10bcd01fe48e8 100644
--- a/test/wasi/test-wasi-symlinks.js
+++ b/test/wasi/test-wasi-symlinks.js
@@ -62,7 +62,6 @@ if (process.argv[2] === 'wasi-child') {
     const opts = { env: { ...process.env, NODE_DEBUG_NATIVE: 'wasi' } };
     const child = cp.spawnSync(process.execPath, [
       '--experimental-wasi-unstable-preview1',
-      '--experimental-wasm-bigint',
       __filename,
       'wasi-child',
       options.test,
diff --git a/test/wasi/test-wasi.js b/test/wasi/test-wasi.js
index 083cf1b17b75de..261d7928ecad8e 100644
--- a/test/wasi/test-wasi.js
+++ b/test/wasi/test-wasi.js
@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@ if (process.argv[2] === 'wasi-child') {
 
     const child = cp.spawnSync(process.execPath, [
       '--experimental-wasi-unstable-preview1',
-      '--experimental-wasm-bigint',
       __filename,
       'wasi-child',
       options.test