diff --git a/litellm/proxy/management_endpoints/auto_router_endpoints.py b/litellm/proxy/management_endpoints/auto_router_endpoints.py
index 21e652114bc..415ed1bb76a 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/management_endpoints/auto_router_endpoints.py
+++ b/litellm/proxy/management_endpoints/auto_router_endpoints.py
@@ -587,13 +587,10 @@ def _summed_agg_row(rows: Sequence[_SessionAggRow]) -> _SessionAggRow:
 
 
 def _strategy_router_key(deployment: object) -> tuple[str, str] | None:
-    """``(model_name, kind)`` for a deployment whose routing the session rollup records.
+    """Return ``(model_name, kind)`` for a configured strategy-router deployment.
 
     Kinds come from ``classify_strategy_router_model``, the same rule the Router registers a
-    deployment by, so this arm cannot disagree with the arm that stamped ``router_type`` onto
-    the session rows. Semantic auto-routers return None: they record no routing decision, so
-    they can never own a session row, and ``AutoRouterBenchmarkGroup.router_type`` has no
-    value for them. A permanent zero would read as "no traffic" rather than "not instrumented".
+    deployment by, so this arm cannot disagree with the value stamped onto session rows.
     """
     if not isinstance(deployment, Mapping):
         return None
@@ -605,7 +602,7 @@ def _strategy_router_key(deployment: object) -> tuple[str, str] | None:
     if not isinstance(model, str):
         return None
     kind: Final = classify_strategy_router_model(model)
-    return None if kind is None or kind == "semantic" else (router_name, kind)
+    return None if kind is None else (router_name, kind)
 
 
 def _idle_router_groups(
diff --git a/litellm/router_strategy/auto_router/auto_router.py b/litellm/router_strategy/auto_router/auto_router.py
index 6b443026f61..2e6785d0bc5 100644
--- a/litellm/router_strategy/auto_router/auto_router.py
+++ b/litellm/router_strategy/auto_router/auto_router.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ from litellm.litellm_core_utils.internal_call_metadata import (
     forwarded_internal_call_metadata,
     parent_session_kwargs,
 )
-from litellm.types.utils import AUTOROUTER_CLASSIFIER_CALL_ORIGIN
+from litellm.types.utils import AUTOROUTER_CLASSIFIER_CALL_ORIGIN, StandardLoggingRoutingDecision
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from semantic_router.routers import SemanticRouter
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ class AutoRouter(CustomLogger):
 
         self.auto_router_config_path: str | None = auto_router_config_path
         self.auto_router_config: str | None = auto_router_config
+        self.model_name = model_name
         self.auto_sync_value = self.DEFAULT_AUTO_SYNC_VALUE
         self.loaded_routes: list[Route] = self._load_semantic_routing_routes()
         self.routelayer: SemanticRouter | None = None
@@ -179,9 +180,17 @@ class AutoRouter(CustomLogger):
         message_content: Final = self._extract_text_from_messages(resolved_messages)
         route_name: Final = await self._matched_route_name(routelayer, message_content, request_kwargs)
 
+        routed: Final = route_name or self.default_model
         return PreRoutingHookResponse(
-            model=route_name or self.default_model,
+            model=routed,
             messages=messages,
+            routing_decision=StandardLoggingRoutingDecision(
+                router_model_name=self.model_name,
+                router_type="semantic",
+                routed_model=routed,
+                cause="semantic_route_match" if route_name else "default_fallback",
+                **({"tier": route_name} if route_name is not None else {}),
+            ),
         )
 
     async def _matched_route_name(
diff --git a/litellm/types/management_endpoints/auto_router_endpoints.py b/litellm/types/management_endpoints/auto_router_endpoints.py
index 88869a1edfb..c608c48eed0 100644
--- a/litellm/types/management_endpoints/auto_router_endpoints.py
+++ b/litellm/types/management_endpoints/auto_router_endpoints.py
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ class AutoRouterBenchmarkGroup(AutoRouterBenchmarkTotals):
     """One auto-router's slice of the benchmarks."""
 
     router_name: str = Field(description="The auto-router alias requests were sent to")
-    router_type: str = Field(description="complexity, adaptive or quality")
+    router_type: str = Field(description="complexity, adaptive, quality or semantic")
     tier_turns: Mapping[str, int] = Field(
         default_factory=dict,
         description="Turns per tier, keyed by the tier name the routing decision recorded at "
@@ -236,8 +236,7 @@ class AutoRouterBenchmarksResponse(BaseModel):
     groups: tuple[AutoRouterBenchmarkGroup, ...] = Field(
         description="One entry per auto-router, listed from the model registry rather than from "
         "the rollup, so a router appears as soon as it is configured and reads zero until it "
-        "serves traffic. Semantic auto-routers are absent: they record no routing decision, so no "
-        "session can ever be attributed to them"
+        "serves traffic"
     )
 
 
diff --git a/litellm/types/utils.py b/litellm/types/utils.py
index 44c312e2e77..51d90aea81c 100644
--- a/litellm/types/utils.py
+++ b/litellm/types/utils.py
@@ -2897,6 +2897,7 @@ RoutingDecisionCause = Literal[
     # called. Distinct from "session_affinity_pin", which reports the session_affinity flag pinning
     # every turn including new asks; this cause only appears when session_affinity is off.
     "user_turn_continuation",
+    "semantic_route_match",
     "default_fallback",
     "keyword",
     "quality_tier",
@@ -2923,7 +2924,7 @@ class StandardLoggingRoutingDecision(TypedDict, total=False):
     """Per-request provenance for a pre-routing strategy (auto-router) decision."""
 
     router_model_name: str
-    router_type: Literal["complexity", "adaptive", "quality"]
+    router_type: Literal["complexity", "adaptive", "quality", "semantic"]
     routed_model: str
     cause: RoutingDecisionCause
     tier: str
diff --git a/tests/test_litellm/proxy/db/test_autorouter_session_rollup.py b/tests/test_litellm/proxy/db/test_autorouter_session_rollup.py
index 2ed4f843711..ae7a0a176ea 100644
--- a/tests/test_litellm/proxy/db/test_autorouter_session_rollup.py
+++ b/tests/test_litellm/proxy/db/test_autorouter_session_rollup.py
@@ -97,6 +97,20 @@ class TestBuildTransaction:
         transaction = _build(metadata=_metadata(routing_decision={**ROUTING_DECISION, "tier": "reasoning"}))
         assert transaction is not None and transaction.tier == "reasoning"
 
+    def test_a_semantic_routing_decision_is_carried_onto_the_transaction(self):
+        transaction = _build(
+            metadata=_metadata(
+                routing_decision={
+                    "router_model_name": "semantic-auto",
+                    "router_type": "semantic",
+                    "routed_model": "code-model",
+                    "cause": "semantic_route_match",
+                    "tier": "code-model",
+                }
+            )
+        )
+        assert transaction is not None and transaction.router_type == "semantic"
+
     @pytest.mark.parametrize("tier", [None, "", 3, {"tier": "medium"}])
     def test_a_decision_without_a_usable_tier_records_no_tier(self, tier: object):
         transaction = _build(metadata=_metadata(routing_decision={**ROUTING_DECISION, "tier": tier}))
diff --git a/tests/test_litellm/proxy/management_endpoints/test_auto_router_endpoints.py b/tests/test_litellm/proxy/management_endpoints/test_auto_router_endpoints.py
index c525af84511..d917ac9b0ac 100644
--- a/tests/test_litellm/proxy/management_endpoints/test_auto_router_endpoints.py
+++ b/tests/test_litellm/proxy/management_endpoints/test_auto_router_endpoints.py
@@ -728,21 +728,43 @@ class TestAutoRouterBenchmarks:
             ("auto_router/complexity_router", "complexity"),
             ("auto_router/adaptive_router", "adaptive"),
             ("auto_router/quality_router", "quality"),
-            ("auto_router/my-semantic-router", None),
+            ("auto_router/my-semantic-router", "semantic"),
             ("openai/gpt-5", None),
         ],
     )
-    async def test_only_kinds_whose_routing_the_rollup_records_are_listed(
+    async def test_all_strategy_router_kinds_are_listed(
         self, model: str, listed_as: str | None, monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch
     ):
-        """A semantic auto-router records no routing decision, so it can never own a session
-        row; listing it would show $0 forever even while it serves traffic."""
+        """Every strategy auto-router kind is listed before it has traffic."""
         response = await self._benchmarks(
             monkeypatch, rows=[], model_list=[_deployment("candidate", model, db_model=True)]
         )
 
         assert [group.router_type for group in response.groups] == ([listed_as] if listed_as else [])
 
+    @pytest.mark.asyncio
+    async def test_a_semantic_deployment_is_listed_before_it_has_traffic(self, monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch):
+        from litellm.proxy.management_endpoints.auto_router_endpoints import _strategy_router_key
+
+        deployment = {
+            "model_name": "semantic-router",
+            "litellm_params": {
+                "model": "auto_router/auto_router_1",
+                "auto_router_config_path": "routes.json",
+                "auto_router_default_model": "fallback-model",
+                "auto_router_embedding_model": "embedding-model",
+            },
+            "model_info": {"id": "semantic-router-1", "db_model": True},
+        }
+
+        assert _strategy_router_key(deployment) == ("semantic-router", "semantic")
+        response = await self._benchmarks(monkeypatch, rows=[], model_list=[deployment])
+
+        assert len(response.groups) == 1
+        assert response.groups[0].router_name == "semantic-router"
+        assert response.groups[0].router_type == "semantic"
+        assert response.groups[0].turns == 0
+
     @pytest.mark.asyncio
     async def test_a_malformed_deployment_is_skipped_rather_than_failing_the_dashboard(
         self, monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch
@@ -778,15 +800,14 @@ class TestAutoRouterBenchmarks:
         assert [group.router_name for group in response.groups] == ["tagged"]
 
     def test_the_listed_kinds_match_the_router_types_traffic_can_record(self):
-        """The one reason semantic is excluded, pinned against both declarations: a kind the
-        rollup can record must be listable, and a kind it cannot must not be."""
+        """Every strategy-router kind can be listed and recorded by the rollup."""
         from typing import get_args, get_type_hints
 
         from litellm.router_utils.auto_router_model_naming import StrategyRouterKind
         from litellm.types.utils import StandardLoggingRoutingDecision
 
         recorded = set(get_args(get_type_hints(StandardLoggingRoutingDecision)["router_type"]))
-        assert set(get_args(StrategyRouterKind)) - {"semantic"} == recorded
+        assert set(get_args(StrategyRouterKind)) == recorded
 
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/tests/test_litellm/router_strategy/test_auto_router.py b/tests/test_litellm/router_strategy/test_auto_router.py
index 123ada83ca4..392425da02c 100644
--- a/tests/test_litellm/router_strategy/test_auto_router.py
+++ b/tests/test_litellm/router_strategy/test_auto_router.py
@@ -415,6 +415,12 @@ class TestAutoRouterAlwaysResolvesARoutableModel:
         assert result is not None
         # Leaving "my-auto-router" here fails downstream with "Unmapped LLM provider".
         assert result.model == "fallback-model"
+        assert result.routing_decision == {
+            "router_type": "semantic",
+            "router_model_name": "my-auto-router",
+            "routed_model": "fallback-model",
+            "cause": "default_fallback",
+        }
 
     @pytest.mark.asyncio
     async def test_should_fall_back_to_default_model_when_the_route_layer_returns_an_empty_list(self):
@@ -461,6 +467,13 @@ class TestAutoRouterAlwaysResolvesARoutableModel:
 
         assert result is not None
         assert result.model == "code-model"
+        assert result.routing_decision == {
+            "router_type": "semantic",
+            "router_model_name": "my-auto-router",
+            "routed_model": "code-model",
+            "cause": "semantic_route_match",
+            "tier": "code-model",
+        }
         assert router.seen_text == "fix this stack trace"
 
 
diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/lib/http/schema.d.ts b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/lib/http/schema.d.ts
index d94b5425ba9..19a56a681b5 100644
--- a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/lib/http/schema.d.ts
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/lib/http/schema.d.ts
@@ -23276,7 +23276,7 @@ export interface components {
             router_name: string;
             /**
              * Router Type
-             * @description complexity, adaptive or quality
+             * @description complexity, adaptive, quality or semantic
              */
             router_type: string;
             /**
@@ -23359,7 +23359,7 @@ export interface components {
             end_date: string;
             /**
              * Groups
-             * @description One entry per auto-router, listed from the model registry rather than from the rollup, so a router appears as soon as it is configured and reads zero until it serves traffic. Semantic auto-routers are absent: they record no routing decision, so no session can ever be attributed to them
+             * @description One entry per auto-router, listed from the model registry rather than from the rollup, so a router appears as soon as it is configured and reads zero until it serves traffic
              */
             groups: components["schemas"]["AutoRouterBenchmarkGroup"][];
             /**
@@ -36045,7 +36045,7 @@ export interface components {
              * Cause
              * @enum {string}
              */
-            cause?: "heuristic_scorer" | "heuristic_v2" | "reasoning_override" | "llm_classifier" | "heuristic_first_short_circuit" | "hybrid_short_circuit" | "classifier_plugin" | "classifier_fallback" | "default_model_fallback" | "literal_keyword_match" | "semantic_keyword_match" | "plan_mode" | "housekeeping" | "modality_escalation" | "modality_pin_override" | "health_failover" | "session_affinity_pin" | "session_affinity_escalation" | "user_turn_continuation" | "default_fallback" | "keyword" | "quality_tier" | "bandit";
+            cause?: "heuristic_scorer" | "heuristic_v2" | "reasoning_override" | "llm_classifier" | "heuristic_first_short_circuit" | "hybrid_short_circuit" | "classifier_plugin" | "classifier_fallback" | "default_model_fallback" | "literal_keyword_match" | "semantic_keyword_match" | "plan_mode" | "housekeeping" | "modality_escalation" | "modality_pin_override" | "health_failover" | "session_affinity_pin" | "session_affinity_escalation" | "user_turn_continuation" | "semantic_route_match" | "default_fallback" | "keyword" | "quality_tier" | "bandit";
             /** Classifier Cost */
             classifier_cost?: number;
             /** Classifier Model */
@@ -36074,7 +36074,7 @@ export interface components {
              * Router Type
              * @enum {string}
              */
-            router_type?: "complexity" | "adaptive" | "quality";
+            router_type?: "complexity" | "adaptive" | "quality" | "semantic";
             /** Savings Baseline Deployment Id */
             savings_baseline_deployment_id?: string;
             /** Savings Baseline Model */