diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/cost-optimization/_components/AutoRouterBenchmarksTab.test.tsx b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/cost-optimization/_components/AutoRouterBenchmarksTab.test.tsx
index 51e9e125cb9..a5767383307 100644
--- a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/cost-optimization/_components/AutoRouterBenchmarksTab.test.tsx
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/cost-optimization/_components/AutoRouterBenchmarksTab.test.tsx
@@ -155,21 +155,45 @@ describe("AutoRouterBenchmarksTab", () => {
     expect(screen.getByText(/turns measured/)).toBeInTheDocument();
   });
 
-  it("recomputes the expired-miss share from the miss counts", () => {
+  it("computes the expired-miss share over every measured turn, not just return-to-tier misses", () => {
     mockHook({ data: response([group()]) });
     renderTab();
 
     expect(screen.getByText("Expired-miss")).toBeInTheDocument();
-    expect(screen.getByText("27.1%")).toBeInTheDocument();
+    expect(screen.getByText("2.3%")).toBeInTheDocument();
   });
 
-  it("hides the expired-miss row when every return turn hit", () => {
+  it("exposes the whole expired-miss row as a focusable tooltip trigger", () => {
+    mockHook({ data: response([group()]) });
+    renderTab();
+
+    const trigger = screen.getByRole("button", { name: /Expired-miss/ });
+    expect(trigger).toHaveTextContent("2.3%");
+  });
+
+  it("shows a zero expired-miss share, rather than hiding the row, when every return turn hit", () => {
     const allHits = totals({
       cache: cache({ return_to_tier: { turns: 381, hits: 381, hit_rate_pct: 100 }, return_misses_expired: 0 }),
     });
     mockHook({ data: response([group(allHits)], allHits) });
     renderTab();
 
+    const trigger = screen.getByRole("button", { name: /Expired-miss/ });
+    expect(trigger).toHaveTextContent("0.0%");
+  });
+
+  it("hides the expired-miss row only when no turns were measured at all", () => {
+    const empty = { turns: 0, hits: 0, hit_rate_pct: 0 };
+    const nothingMeasured = {
+      same_model: empty,
+      first_visit: empty,
+      return_to_tier: empty,
+      return_misses_expired: 0,
+    };
+    const noTurns = totals({ cache: cache(nothingMeasured) });
+    mockHook({ data: response([group(noTurns)], noTurns) });
+    renderTab();
+
     expect(screen.queryByText("Expired-miss")).not.toBeInTheDocument();
   });
 
diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/cost-optimization/_components/AutoRouterBenchmarksTab.tsx b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/cost-optimization/_components/AutoRouterBenchmarksTab.tsx
index 2b71c36c597..ff0f52940b2 100644
--- a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/cost-optimization/_components/AutoRouterBenchmarksTab.tsx
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/cost-optimization/_components/AutoRouterBenchmarksTab.tsx
@@ -183,23 +183,27 @@ const CachingCard: React.FC<{ cache: AutoRouterCacheStats }> = ({ cache }) => {
             <p className="text-5xl font-semibold tracking-tight text-foreground">{pctLabel(cache.hit_rate_pct)}</p>
           </div>
           {expiredMissPct === null ? null : (
-            <div className="flex items-baseline justify-between gap-2 border-t pt-3">
-              <TooltipProvider delay={200}>
-                <Tooltip>
-                  <TooltipTrigger
-                    render={
-                      <p className="cursor-default text-sm text-muted-foreground underline decoration-dotted underline-offset-2">
-                        Expired-miss
-                      </p>
-                    }
-                  />
-                  <TooltipContent className="max-w-64">
-                    percentage of return-to-tier cache misses caused by cache expiring
-                  </TooltipContent>
-                </Tooltip>
-              </TooltipProvider>
-              <p className="font-medium tabular-nums text-foreground">{pctLabel(expiredMissPct)}</p>
-            </div>
+            <TooltipProvider delay={200}>
+              <Tooltip>
+                <TooltipTrigger
+                  render={
+                    <button
+                      type="button"
+                      className="flex w-full cursor-default items-baseline justify-between gap-2 border-t pt-3 text-left"
+                    />
+                  }
+                >
+                  <span className="text-sm text-muted-foreground underline decoration-dotted underline-offset-2">
+                    Expired-miss
+                  </span>
+                  <span className="font-medium tabular-nums text-foreground">{pctLabel(expiredMissPct)}</span>
+                </TooltipTrigger>
+                <TooltipContent className="max-w-64">
+                  share of all measured turns that missed cache because a return to an earlier tier came after its TTL
+                  lapsed
+                </TooltipContent>
+              </Tooltip>
+            </TooltipProvider>
           )}
         </div>
 
diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/cost-optimization/_components/CostOptimizationView.test.tsx b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/cost-optimization/_components/CostOptimizationView.test.tsx
index 96ef75e8dd1..33c64ecf18a 100644
--- a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/cost-optimization/_components/CostOptimizationView.test.tsx
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/cost-optimization/_components/CostOptimizationView.test.tsx
@@ -17,21 +17,21 @@ describe("CostOptimizationView", () => {
   it("renders the four cost-optimization tabs", () => {
     const { getByText } = renderView();
 
-    expect(getByText("Usage")).toBeInTheDocument();
+    expect(getByText("Overall")).toBeInTheDocument();
     expect(getByText("Prompt Compression")).toBeInTheDocument();
     expect(getByText("Prompt Caching")).toBeInTheDocument();
-    expect(getByText("Auto-Router Usage")).toBeInTheDocument();
+    expect(getByText("Auto-Router")).toBeInTheDocument();
   });
 
-  it("defaults to the Usage tab and switches the active tab on click", () => {
+  it("defaults to the Overall tab and switches the active tab on click", () => {
     const { getByRole } = renderView();
 
-    expect(getByRole("tab", { name: "Usage" })).toHaveAttribute("aria-selected", "true");
+    expect(getByRole("tab", { name: "Overall" })).toHaveAttribute("aria-selected", "true");
     expect(getByRole("tab", { name: "Prompt Compression" })).toHaveAttribute("aria-selected", "false");
 
     fireEvent.click(getByRole("tab", { name: "Prompt Compression" }));
 
-    expect(getByRole("tab", { name: "Usage" })).toHaveAttribute("aria-selected", "false");
+    expect(getByRole("tab", { name: "Overall" })).toHaveAttribute("aria-selected", "false");
     expect(getByRole("tab", { name: "Prompt Compression" })).toHaveAttribute("aria-selected", "true");
   });
 });
diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/cost-optimization/_components/CostOptimizationView.tsx b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/cost-optimization/_components/CostOptimizationView.tsx
index 0d986fdcaa8..6af1e8d0441 100644
--- a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/cost-optimization/_components/CostOptimizationView.tsx
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/cost-optimization/_components/CostOptimizationView.tsx
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ const CostOptimizationView: React.FC<CostOptimizationViewProps> = ({ accessToken
   const items = [
     {
       key: "usage",
-      label: "Usage",
+      label: "Overall",
       children: <UsageTab accessToken={accessToken} activity={activity} />,
     },
     {
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ const CostOptimizationView: React.FC<CostOptimizationViewProps> = ({ accessToken
     },
     {
       key: "autorouter-usage",
-      label: "Auto-Router Usage",
+      label: "Auto-Router",
       children: <AutoRouterBenchmarksTab accessToken={accessToken} />,
     },
   ];
diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/cost-optimization/_components/autoRouterBenchmarks.test.ts b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/cost-optimization/_components/autoRouterBenchmarks.test.ts
index 201a71ae4be..57c059b5524 100644
--- a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/cost-optimization/_components/autoRouterBenchmarks.test.ts
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/cost-optimization/_components/autoRouterBenchmarks.test.ts
@@ -131,12 +131,25 @@ describe("bucketRows", () => {
 });
 
 describe("expiredMissShare", () => {
-  it("recomputes the expired share from the miss counts", () => {
-    expect(expiredMissShare(cache())).toBeCloseTo((100 * 19) / 70);
+  it("computes the expired share over every measured turn, not just return-to-tier misses", () => {
+    expect(expiredMissShare(cache())).toBeCloseTo((100 * 19) / 818);
   });
 
-  it("is absent when every return turn hit", () => {
-    expect(expiredMissShare(cache({ return_to_tier: { turns: 10, hits: 10, hit_rate_pct: 100 } }))).toBeNull();
+  it("is zero, not absent, when every return turn hit", () => {
+    expect(
+      expiredMissShare(cache({ return_to_tier: { turns: 10, hits: 10, hit_rate_pct: 100 }, return_misses_expired: 0 })),
+    ).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  it("is absent only when no turns were measured at all", () => {
+    const empty = { turns: 0, hits: 0, hit_rate_pct: 0 };
+    const nothingMeasured = {
+      same_model: empty,
+      first_visit: empty,
+      return_to_tier: empty,
+      return_misses_expired: 0,
+    };
+    expect(expiredMissShare(cache(nothingMeasured))).toBeNull();
   });
 });
 
diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/cost-optimization/_components/autoRouterBenchmarks.ts b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/cost-optimization/_components/autoRouterBenchmarks.ts
index 8b6a4fa4105..00793548278 100644
--- a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/cost-optimization/_components/autoRouterBenchmarks.ts
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/cost-optimization/_components/autoRouterBenchmarks.ts
@@ -91,9 +91,9 @@ export const bucketRows = (cache: AutoRouterCacheStats): BucketRow[] => {
 };
 
 export const expiredMissShare = (cache: AutoRouterCacheStats): number | null => {
-  const misses = cache.return_to_tier.turns - cache.return_to_tier.hits;
-  if (misses <= 0) return null;
-  return (100 * cache.return_misses_expired) / misses;
+  const total = bucketTurnsTotal(cache);
+  if (total <= 0) return null;
+  return (100 * cache.return_misses_expired) / total;
 };
 
 export const pctLabel = (value: number, digits: number = 1): string => `${value.toFixed(digits)}%`;