diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/lens/model/live.test.ts b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/lens/model/live.test.ts
index 08cbe8d77cd..9091e0ab991 100644
--- a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/lens/model/live.test.ts
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/lens/model/live.test.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
 import {
+  analysisModel,
   conclusions,
   liveStats,
   modelName,
@@ -48,6 +49,12 @@ describe("provider from model", () => {
     expect(providerOf("/weird")).toBe("");
   });
 
+  it("prefers a model that names its provider over a bare alias", () => {
+    expect(analysisModel(["analysis", "", "cerebras/gpt-oss-120b"])).toBe("cerebras/gpt-oss-120b");
+    expect(analysisModel(["", "analysis"])).toBe("analysis");
+    expect(analysisModel([])).toBe("");
+  });
+
   it("drops only the provider prefix from the model name", () => {
     expect(modelName("openrouter/meta/llama")).toBe("meta/llama");
     expect(modelName("analysis")).toBe("analysis");
@@ -102,11 +109,11 @@ describe("conclusions", () => {
 
 describe("playback pacing", () => {
   it("slows to a full window for one review and speeds up as the backlog grows", () => {
-    expect(stepDuration(1)).toBe(3200);
-    expect(stepDuration(4)).toBe(800);
+    expect(stepDuration(1)).toBe(4200);
+    expect(stepDuration(4)).toBe(1050);
     expect(stepDuration(10)).toBeLessThan(stepDuration(4));
     expect(stepDuration(10_000)).toBe(140);
-    expect(stepDuration(0)).toBe(3200);
+    expect(stepDuration(0)).toBe(4200);
   });
 
   it("highlights spans one at a time, then types reasoning, then shows the verdict", () => {
diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/lens/model/live.ts b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/lens/model/live.ts
index a3346737d87..7c117244547 100644
--- a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/lens/model/live.ts
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/lens/model/live.ts
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ export interface LiveStats {
   elapsedSeconds: number;
 }
 
-const PACE_WINDOW_MS = 3200;
+const PACE_WINDOW_MS = 4200;
 const MIN_STEP_MS = 140;
 const COMPACT_STEP_MS = 700;
 const READ_SHARE = 0.35;
@@ -69,8 +69,16 @@ export function stepDuration(backlog: number): number {
   return Math.max(MIN_STEP_MS, Math.min(PACE_WINDOW_MS, Math.round(PACE_WINDOW_MS / Math.max(1, backlog))));
 }
 
+export function isCompact(duration: number): boolean {
+  return duration < COMPACT_STEP_MS;
+}
+
+export function analysisModel(candidates: readonly string[]): string {
+  return candidates.find((model) => providerOf(model)) ?? candidates.find(Boolean) ?? "";
+}
+
 export function playbackPhase(elapsed: number, duration: number, spans: number, chars: number): Phase {
-  if (duration < COMPACT_STEP_MS) return { span: -1, typed: chars, verdict: true };
+  if (isCompact(duration)) return { span: -1, typed: chars, verdict: true };
   const t = Math.max(0, elapsed) / duration;
   const reading = t < READ_SHARE;
   const span = reading && spans > 0 ? Math.min(spans - 1, Math.floor((t / READ_SHARE) * spans)) : -1;