diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/leftnav.test.tsx b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/leftnav.test.tsx
index b0bb0e8a5b5..35ccff95eb0 100644
--- a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/leftnav.test.tsx
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/leftnav.test.tsx
@@ -177,6 +177,7 @@ describe("Sidebar (leftnav)", () => {
       "Virtual Keys",
       "Playground",
       "Models + Endpoints",
+      "Routing",
       "Agentic",
       "MCP Servers",
       "Guardrails",
@@ -213,11 +214,11 @@ describe("Sidebar (leftnav)", () => {
       expect(screen.getByText("Search Tools")).toBeInTheDocument();
     });
   });
-  it("keeps Router Settings as a single Settings child", () => {
-    // Router Settings is admin-only, so getAvailablePages() filters it out entirely and the
+  it("keeps Routing as a single top-level AI Gateway item", () => {
+    // Routing is admin-only, so getAvailablePages() filters it out entirely and the
     // page_utils duplicate-key guard cannot see it. Walk menuGroups directly, otherwise a
-    // stray duplicate placement ships silently.
-    expect(placementsOf("router-settings")).toEqual(["SETTINGS > settings"]);
+    // stray duplicate placement (e.g. left behind under Settings) ships silently.
+    expect(placementsOf("router-settings")).toEqual(["AI GATEWAY"]);
   });
 
   it("has no duplicate keys among all menu items and their children", () => {
@@ -545,8 +546,8 @@ describe("getBreadcrumb", () => {
     expect(getBreadcrumb("search-tools")).toEqual({ section: "AI Gateway", title: "Search Tools" });
   });
 
-  it("resolves router-settings under the Settings section", () => {
-    expect(getBreadcrumb("router-settings")).toEqual({ section: "Settings", title: "Router Settings" });
+  it("resolves router-settings as a top-level AI Gateway page", () => {
+    expect(getBreadcrumb("router-settings")).toEqual({ section: "AI Gateway", title: "Routing" });
   });
 
   it("falls back to a prettified title with no section for unknown pages", () => {
diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/leftnav.tsx b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/leftnav.tsx
index 42389facac2..bcad4712664 100644
--- a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/leftnav.tsx
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/leftnav.tsx
@@ -133,6 +133,13 @@ const menuGroups: MenuGroup[] = [
         icon: <Network {...ICON} />,
         roles: rolesAllowedToViewWriteScopedPages,
       },
+      {
+        key: "router-settings",
+        page: "router-settings",
+        label: "Routing",
+        icon: <Route {...ICON} />,
+        roles: all_admin_roles,
+      },
       {
         key: "agentic",
         page: "agentic",
@@ -323,13 +330,6 @@ const menuGroups: MenuGroup[] = [
         icon: <SettingsIcon {...ICON} />,
         roles: all_admin_roles,
         children: [
-          {
-            key: "router-settings",
-            page: "router-settings",
-            label: "Router Settings",
-            icon: <Route {...ICON} />,
-            roles: all_admin_roles,
-          },
           {
             key: "logging-and-alerts",
             page: "logging-and-alerts",