diff --git a/litellm/proxy/management_endpoints/common_daily_activity.py b/litellm/proxy/management_endpoints/common_daily_activity.py
index c6c5aad5926..a8aef30107c 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/management_endpoints/common_daily_activity.py
+++ b/litellm/proxy/management_endpoints/common_daily_activity.py
@@ -462,9 +462,7 @@ async def get_api_key_metadata(
 
     This ensures that key_alias and team_id are preserved in historical activity logs
     even after a key is deleted or regenerated. Also recovers aliases for api_key
-    values that were double-hashed by the v1.99 spend-log provenance gate, and, when
-    spend_logs_window is given, for keys never written to either token table (CLI
-    session tokens) from the spend-log rows those requests wrote in that window.
+    values that were double-hashed by the v1.99 spend-log provenance gate.
     """
     key_records: Sequence[PrismaVerificationToken] = await VerificationTokenRepository(prisma_client).table.find_many(
         where={"token": {"in": list(api_keys)}}
diff --git a/litellm/proxy/spend_tracking/key_metadata_recovery.py b/litellm/proxy/spend_tracking/key_metadata_recovery.py
index 81c1f4cf119..e207f226255 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/spend_tracking/key_metadata_recovery.py
+++ b/litellm/proxy/spend_tracking/key_metadata_recovery.py
@@ -29,16 +29,21 @@ ORDER BY token, deleted_at DESC
 """
 
 _SPEND_LOG_ALIAS_SQL: Final = """
-SELECT DISTINCT ON (api_key)
-    api_key AS digest,
-    metadata->>'user_api_key_alias' AS key_alias,
-    COALESCE(NULLIF(team_id, ''), metadata->>'user_api_key_team_id') AS team_id,
-    COALESCE(NULLIF("user", ''), metadata->>'user_api_key_user_id') AS user_id
-FROM "LiteLLM_SpendLogs"
-WHERE api_key = ANY($1::text[])
-  AND "startTime" >= $2::timestamp
-  AND "startTime" < $3::timestamp
-ORDER BY api_key, (metadata->>'user_api_key_alias') IS NULL, "startTime" DESC
+SELECT newest.digest, newest.key_alias, newest.team_id, newest.user_id
+FROM unnest($1::text[]) AS missing(digest)
+CROSS JOIN LATERAL (
+    SELECT
+        api_key AS digest,
+        metadata->>'user_api_key_alias' AS key_alias,
+        COALESCE(NULLIF(team_id, ''), metadata->>'user_api_key_team_id') AS team_id,
+        COALESCE(NULLIF("user", ''), metadata->>'user_api_key_user_id') AS user_id
+    FROM "LiteLLM_SpendLogs"
+    WHERE api_key = missing.digest
+      AND "startTime" >= $2::timestamp
+      AND "startTime" < $3::timestamp
+    ORDER BY "startTime" DESC
+    LIMIT 1
+) AS newest
 """
 
 
@@ -152,14 +157,6 @@ async def recover_double_hashed_key_metadata(
     prisma_client: PrismaClient,
     missing_keys: AbstractSet[str],
 ) -> Mapping[str, KeyMetadataDict]:
-    """
-    Recover key_alias/team_id/user_id for DailyUserSpend.api_key values that
-    were double-hashed by the v1.99 spend-log provenance gate.
-
-    Those rows store hash(VerificationToken.token) instead of the token, so the
-    exact join misses. Postgres hashes the token column itself, one pass over
-    active keys and one over deleted keys, so no key row crosses the wire.
-    """
     sha_missing: Final = frozenset(key for key in missing_keys if is_valid_sha256_hash(key))
     if not sha_missing:
         return _EMPTY_KEY_METADATA
@@ -187,15 +184,6 @@ async def recover_key_metadata_from_spend_logs(
     missing_keys: AbstractSet[str],
     window: tuple[datetime, datetime],
 ) -> Mapping[str, KeyMetadataDict]:
-    """
-    Recover key_alias/team_id/user_id for hashed api_key values absent from both
-    verification-token tables, e.g. in-memory CLI session tokens that never get a
-    token row. Their owner is written to LiteLLM_SpendLogs metadata at request
-    time under the same hashed api_key, so it is the only surviving source. Only
-    sha256 digests are looked up, matching the reverse-hash recovery gate, since
-    every current api_key value in spend logs is a token hash. The [start, end)
-    bound keeps the lookup on the startTime index instead of scanning the table.
-    """
     sha_missing: Final = frozenset(key for key in missing_keys if is_valid_sha256_hash(key))
     if not sha_missing:
         return _EMPTY_KEY_METADATA
diff --git a/tests/test_litellm/proxy/management_endpoints/test_common_daily_activity.py b/tests/test_litellm/proxy/management_endpoints/test_common_daily_activity.py
index 4d3dc320d8f..4c8be415204 100644
--- a/tests/test_litellm/proxy/management_endpoints/test_common_daily_activity.py
+++ b/tests/test_litellm/proxy/management_endpoints/test_common_daily_activity.py
@@ -2109,11 +2109,6 @@ async def test_get_daily_activity_aggregated_with_entity_breakdown():
 
 @pytest.mark.asyncio
 async def test_get_api_key_metadata_resolves_session_key_via_spend_log_window():
-    """
-    A CLI session token has no verification-token row, so the active/deleted lookups
-    and reverse-hash all miss. Given a spend-log window, its alias and owner are
-    recovered from the spend-log metadata and its email is filled from the user table.
-    """
     from litellm.proxy.utils import hash_token
 
     session_digest = hash_token("cli-session-user-42")
diff --git a/tests/test_litellm/proxy/spend_tracking/test_key_metadata_recovery.py b/tests/test_litellm/proxy/spend_tracking/test_key_metadata_recovery.py
index 9e42f017106..05a90137e3b 100644
--- a/tests/test_litellm/proxy/spend_tracking/test_key_metadata_recovery.py
+++ b/tests/test_litellm/proxy/spend_tracking/test_key_metadata_recovery.py
@@ -233,11 +233,6 @@ async def test_fill_missing_api_key_aliases_skips_named_keys_that_have_no_email(
 
 @pytest.mark.asyncio
 async def test_recover_key_metadata_from_spend_logs_resolves_session_token_from_metadata():
-    """
-    CLI session tokens never get a verification-token row, so both the exact join and
-    the reverse-hash lookup miss them. Their owner survives only in the spend-log
-    metadata written at request time, keyed by the same hashed api_key.
-    """
     session_digest = hash_token("cli-session-repro-user-6852")
     window = (datetime(2026, 9, 7), datetime(2026, 9, 10))
     mock_prisma = MagicMock()