diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/page.tsx b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/page.tsx
index 12dd39a1c21..996f63966d8 100644
--- a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/page.tsx
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/page.tsx
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 
 import SidebarProvider from "@/app/(dashboard)/components/SidebarProvider";
 import OldModelDashboard from "@/app/(dashboard)/models-and-endpoints/ModelsAndEndpointsView";
-import PlaygroundPage from "@/app/(dashboard)/playground/page";
 import AdminPanel from "@/components/AdminPanel";
 import AgentsPanel from "@/components/agents";
 import BudgetPanel from "@/components/budgets/budget_panel";
@@ -406,8 +405,6 @@ function CreateKeyPageContent() {
                     premiumUser={premiumUser}
                     teams={teams}
                   />
-                ) : page == "llm-playground" ? (
-                  <PlaygroundPage />
                 ) : page == "users" ? (
                   <ViewUserDashboard
                     userID={userID}
diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/utils/migratedPages.test.ts b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/utils/migratedPages.test.ts
index e9aceea8148..d614bf7dc6d 100644
--- a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/utils/migratedPages.test.ts
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/utils/migratedPages.test.ts
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ describe("migratedHref / legacyPageHref", () => {
 
     expect(MIGRATED_PAGES.api_ref).toBe("api-reference");
     expect(MIGRATED_PAGES["api-reference"]).toBe("api-reference");
+    expect(MIGRATED_PAGES["llm-playground"]).toBe("playground");
   });
 });
 
@@ -49,6 +50,7 @@ describe("legacyKeyForPathname", () => {
     // Resolves to the sidebar key api_ref, not the hyphenated alias, so highlighting works.
     expect(legacyKeyForPathname("/ui/api-reference")).toBe("api_ref");
     expect(legacyKeyForPathname("/ui/api-reference/")).toBe("api_ref");
+    expect(legacyKeyForPathname("/ui/playground")).toBe("llm-playground");
   });
 
   it("returns null for a not-yet-migrated path", async () => {
diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/utils/migratedPages.ts b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/utils/migratedPages.ts
index 2c27e4fee64..e20e8b5a8ea 100644
--- a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/utils/migratedPages.ts
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/utils/migratedPages.ts
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ export const MIGRATED_PAGES: Record<string, string> = {
   api_ref: "api-reference",
   // Legacy alias: older bookmarks used the hyphenated ?page=api-reference form.
   "api-reference": "api-reference",
+  "llm-playground": "playground",
 };
 
 function uiBase(): string {