diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/status-bar/StatusBarProviderSegment.tsx b/src/renderer/src/components/status-bar/StatusBarProviderSegment.tsx
index f9a484ede41..aac39d99e25 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/status-bar/StatusBarProviderSegment.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/status-bar/StatusBarProviderSegment.tsx
@@ -95,9 +95,11 @@ export function getUsageTone(p: ProviderRateLimits): UsageTone {
  */
 export function UsageOverflowChip({
   hidden,
+  providerCount,
   display
 }: {
   hidden: readonly ProviderRateLimits[]
+  providerCount: number
   display: UsagePercentageDisplay
 }): React.JSX.Element {
   const tones = hidden.map(getUsageTone)
@@ -128,9 +130,13 @@ export function UsageOverflowChip({
           value0: names
         }
       )}
-      className="inline-flex h-4 items-center rounded-full border border-border px-1.5 text-[11px] font-medium tabular-nums text-foreground data-[tone=urgent]:border-destructive/40 data-[tone=urgent]:text-destructive data-[tone=warning]:border-status-warning-border data-[tone=warning]:text-status-warning data-[usage-collapsed=true]:invisible data-[usage-collapsed=true]:absolute"
+      className="inline-grid h-4 items-center justify-items-center rounded-full border border-border px-1.5 text-[11px] font-medium tabular-nums text-foreground data-[tone=urgent]:border-destructive/40 data-[tone=urgent]:text-destructive data-[tone=warning]:border-status-warning-border data-[tone=warning]:text-status-warning data-[usage-collapsed=true]:invisible data-[usage-collapsed=true]:absolute"
     >
-      +{Math.max(1, hidden.length)}
+      {/* Why: count changes must not invalidate density measurements and restart probing. */}
+      <span aria-hidden="true" className="invisible col-start-1 row-start-1">
+        +{providerCount}
+      </span>
+      <span className="col-start-1 row-start-1">+{Math.max(1, hidden.length)}</span>
     </span>
   )
 }
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/status-bar/StatusBarSurface.tsx b/src/renderer/src/components/status-bar/StatusBarSurface.tsx
index 0b542cc875e..cd3c1dea6dc 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/status-bar/StatusBarSurface.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/status-bar/StatusBarSurface.tsx
@@ -161,6 +161,7 @@ export function StatusBarSurface({
                     ))}
                     {collapseUsage ? (
                       <UsageOverflowChip
+                        providerCount={rosterProviders.length}
                         hidden={rosterProviders.filter((p) =>
                           collapsedUsageProviders.includes(p.provider)
                         )}
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/status-bar/cursor-usage-headline.test.tsx b/src/renderer/src/components/status-bar/cursor-usage-headline.test.tsx
index 4f65b6d546d..15b02aca7d8 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/status-bar/cursor-usage-headline.test.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/status-bar/cursor-usage-headline.test.tsx
@@ -80,7 +80,9 @@ describe('Cursor compact usage headline', () => {
       expect(getUsageTone(p)).toBe('urgent')
       expect(getTightestUsageSection(p)?.label).toBe(bucket)
       expect(getUsageHeadlineSection(p)?.label).toBe('Cursor Models')
-      const overflow = renderToStaticMarkup(<UsageOverflowChip hidden={[p]} display="used" />)
+      const overflow = renderToStaticMarkup(
+        <UsageOverflowChip hidden={[p]} providerCount={1} display="used" />
+      )
       expect(overflow).toContain('data-tone="urgent"')
       expect(
         pickCollapsedUsageChips(
diff --git a/tests/e2e/status-bar-density-overflow.spec.ts b/tests/e2e/status-bar-density-overflow.spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..22476584b6e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/e2e/status-bar-density-overflow.spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+import type { ProviderRateLimits } from '../../src/shared/rate-limit-types'
+import { expect, test } from './helpers/orca-app'
+
+test.use({ seedTestRepo: false })
+
+test('ten usage providers survive a narrow viewport and expand again', async ({
+  orcaPage: page
+}, testInfo) => {
+  const densityErrors: string[] = []
+  const captureDensityError = (message: string): void => {
+    if (/Maximum update depth|Minified React error #185/.test(message)) {
+      densityErrors.push(message)
+    }
+  }
+  page.on('pageerror', (error) => captureDensityError(error.message))
+  page.on('console', (message) => captureDensityError(message.text()))
+
+  await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1800, height: 800 })
+  await page.evaluate(() => {
+    const store = window.__store
+    if (!store) {
+      throw new Error('store unavailable')
+    }
+    const limits = (provider: ProviderRateLimits['provider']): ProviderRateLimits => ({
+      provider,
+      session: { usedPercent: 25, windowMinutes: 300, resetsAt: null, resetDescription: null },
+      weekly: null,
+      status: 'ok',
+      updatedAt: Date.now(),
+      error: null
+    })
+    store.setState({
+      statusBarVisible: true,
+      statusBarUsageMode: 'verbose',
+      detectedAgentIds: null,
+      statusBarItems: [
+        'claude',
+        'codex',
+        'gemini',
+        'antigravity',
+        'opencode-go',
+        'kimi',
+        'minimax',
+        'grok',
+        'cursor',
+        'zcode',
+        'resource-usage',
+        'ports',
+        'ssh'
+      ],
+      statusBarCompactChangeNoticeDismissed: true,
+      usagePercentageDisplayChangeNoticeDismissed: true,
+      rateLimits: {
+        ...store.getState().rateLimits,
+        claude: limits('claude'),
+        codex: limits('codex'),
+        gemini: limits('gemini'),
+        antigravity: limits('antigravity'),
+        opencodeGo: limits('opencode-go'),
+        kimi: limits('kimi'),
+        minimax: limits('minimax'),
+        grok: limits('grok'),
+        cursor: limits('cursor'),
+        zcode: limits('zcode')
+      }
+    })
+  })
+
+  const usage = page.getByRole('button', { name: 'Usage', exact: true })
+  const collapsed = usage.locator('[data-usage-chip][data-usage-collapsed=true]')
+  const overflow = usage.locator('[data-usage-more]')
+  await expect(usage).toBeVisible()
+  await expect(usage.locator('[data-usage-chip]')).toHaveCount(10)
+  await expect(collapsed).toHaveCount(0)
+
+  let badgeWidth = 0
+  for (const width of [180, 600, 180, 1800]) {
+    await page.setViewportSize({ width, height: 800 })
+    await expect(usage).toBeVisible()
+    if (width === 180) {
+      await expect(collapsed).toHaveCount(10)
+      await expect(overflow).toBeVisible()
+      await expect.poll(() => overflow.innerText()).toBe('+10')
+      badgeWidth = await overflow.evaluate((element) => element.getBoundingClientRect().width)
+    } else if (width === 600) {
+      await expect(overflow).toBeVisible()
+      await expect.poll(() => overflow.innerText()).toMatch(/^\+[1-9]$/)
+      await expect
+        .poll(() => overflow.evaluate((element) => element.getBoundingClientRect().width))
+        .toBeCloseTo(badgeWidth)
+    } else if (width === 1800) {
+      await expect(collapsed).toHaveCount(0)
+      await expect(overflow).toHaveCount(0)
+    }
+    expect(densityErrors).toEqual([])
+    await testInfo.attach(`status-bar-${width}`, {
+      body: await page.screenshot(),
+      contentType: 'image/png'
+    })
+  }
+})