diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/components/copilot/modelConfig.ts b/frontend/src/lib/components/copilot/modelConfig.ts
index edb74792f7..a148f3a599 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/components/copilot/modelConfig.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/components/copilot/modelConfig.ts
@@ -129,10 +129,24 @@ function normalizeVersionSeparators(model: string): string {
  * Family fallbacks ending on a letter get no such guard — a version welded
  * straight onto the name (`llama3.1`) is exactly what they exist to catch.
  */
-export function buildModelMatchers<T>(entries: [name: string, value: T][]): [RegExp, T][] {
+export function buildModelMatchers<T>(
+	entries: [name: string, value: T][],
+	{ strictVariants = false }: { strictVariants?: boolean } = {}
+): [RegExp, T][] {
 	return entries.map(([name, value]) => {
 		const pattern = normalizeVersionSeparators(name).replace(/[.*+?^${}()|[\]\\]/g, '\\$&')
-		return [new RegExp(/\d$/.test(pattern) ? `${pattern}(?!\\d)` : pattern), value]
+		const guards = [
+			// An entry ending on a version digit must not run into a longer version.
+			/\d$/.test(pattern) ? '(?!\\d)' : '',
+			// A named sub-model (`gpt-5-pro`, `gpt-5-mini`) is a different model with
+			// its own price, not another route to this one — so under strictVariants an
+			// entry does not match when a further *name* segment follows. Date suffixes
+			// (`-20251101`) and Bedrock's `-v1` are route decorations, not sub-models,
+			// and still match. Off by default: for a context window an inherited value
+			// is a safe approximation, for a price it is a wrong number.
+			strictVariants ? '(?!-(?!v\\d)[a-z])' : ''
+		].join('')
+		return [new RegExp(pattern + guards), value]
 	})
 }
 
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/components/copilot/modelPricing.test.ts b/frontend/src/lib/components/copilot/modelPricing.test.ts
index 7d77d32466..c34e125d04 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/components/copilot/modelPricing.test.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/components/copilot/modelPricing.test.ts
@@ -27,15 +27,26 @@ describe('resolveModelPrice', () => {
 		expect(resolveModelPrice('customai', 'some-in-house-model', undefined)).toBeUndefined()
 	})
 
-	it('does not let a newer revision inherit an older one’s price', () => {
-		// `gpt-5.6` normalizes to `gpt-5-6`, which the `gpt-5` entry would otherwise
-		// claim — pricing a model we do not track at a rate that is several times off.
+	it('does not let another model inherit a price through a shared prefix', () => {
+		// A sub-model (`-pro`) or a newer revision (`gpt-5.6` → `gpt-5-6`) is a
+		// different model at a different rate; inheriting `gpt-5`'s would be off by
+		// an order of magnitude, and silently so.
 		expect(resolveModelPrice('openai', 'gpt-5', undefined)?.price.input).toBe(1.25)
 		expect(resolveModelPrice('openai', 'gpt-5-mini', undefined)?.price.input).toBe(0.25)
+		expect(resolveModelPrice('openai', 'gpt-5-pro', undefined)).toBeUndefined()
 		expect(resolveModelPrice('openai', 'gpt-5.6', undefined)).toBeUndefined()
 		expect(resolveModelPrice('googleai', 'gemini-3.1', undefined)).toBeUndefined()
 	})
 
+	it('still resolves the route decorations that name the same model', () => {
+		// Dates and Bedrock's -v1 are ways of spelling one model, not sub-models.
+		expect(resolveModelPrice('anthropic', 'claude-opus-4-5-20251101', undefined)?.price.input).toBe(5)
+		expect(
+			resolveModelPrice('bedrock', 'anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-6-20250101-v1:0', undefined)?.price
+				.input
+		).toBe(3)
+	})
+
 	it('prefers a workspace override, keeping the model’s own cache ratios', () => {
 		const resolved = resolveModelPrice('anthropic', 'claude-opus-5', {
 			'anthropic:claude-opus-5': { input: 2, output: 8 }
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/components/copilot/modelPricing.ts b/frontend/src/lib/components/copilot/modelPricing.ts
index fce42915b3..69218b6e7d 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/components/copilot/modelPricing.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/components/copilot/modelPricing.ts
@@ -53,10 +53,17 @@ type PriceEntry = {
  * Providers whose catalogue turns over too quickly to track (DeepSeek, Mistral,
  * Groq, TogetherAI, custom deployments) are deliberately absent.
  *
- * `null` marks a model that is known to exist but whose rates are not: it stops a
- * newer revision from falling through to an older one's family entry and being
- * quietly mispriced. Unpriced is a supported state (the UI says so and points at
- * the override); a confidently wrong number is not.
+ * `null` marks a model that is known to exist but whose rates are not. Unpriced is
+ * a supported state (the UI says so and points at the override); a confidently
+ * wrong number is not — which is also why these matchers are built with
+ * `strictVariants`, so an unlisted sub-model (`gpt-5-pro`) reports no rate instead
+ * of inheriting its family's.
+ *
+ * One known gap the per-model shape cannot express: a few vendors charge more
+ * above a context threshold (Gemini 2.5 Pro past 200k input, Anthropic's 1M-context
+ * beta). Usage is aggregated per model before pricing, so those requests are
+ * estimated at the standard tier and understate. An affected workspace can set the
+ * higher rate as its override.
  */
 const MODEL_PRICES: [name: string, price: PriceEntry | null][] = [
 	// Anthropic — Opus 4.1 and older bill at the pre-4.5 Opus rate, so the family
@@ -84,8 +91,9 @@ const MODEL_PRICES: [name: string, price: PriceEntry | null][] = [
 	// rate. There is no charge for writing the cache and no usage field reporting
 	// one, so the write rate never applies. The -mini/-nano entries must precede
 	// the family entry, which would otherwise claim them.
-	// Revisions past gpt-5 are priced separately by OpenAI and are not tracked here;
-	// without these the `gpt-5` entry below would claim them at gpt-5's rates.
+	// Revisions past gpt-5 are priced separately by OpenAI and are not tracked here.
+	// `strictVariants` does not cover these: a version bump is digits, not a name
+	// segment, so `gpt-5-6` would otherwise still match `gpt-5`.
 	['gpt-5.6', null],
 	['gpt-5.5', null],
 	['gpt-5.4', null],
@@ -120,7 +128,8 @@ const MODEL_PRICE_MATCHERS = buildModelMatchers(
 			cacheRead: entry.cacheRead ?? entry.input * CACHE_READ_RATIO,
 			cacheWrite: entry.cacheWrite ?? entry.input * CACHE_WRITE_RATIO
 		}
-	])
+	]),
+	{ strictVariants: true }
 )
 
 export function getKnownModelPrice(model: string): ModelPrice | undefined {