diff --git a/src/shared/components/RequestLoggerDetail.tsx b/src/shared/components/RequestLoggerDetail.tsx
index 9e4d74bae5..4cf4bf00c8 100644
--- a/src/shared/components/RequestLoggerDetail.tsx
+++ b/src/shared/components/RequestLoggerDetail.tsx
@@ -519,16 +519,12 @@ export default function RequestLoggerDetail({
                   <span className="px-2 py-0.5 rounded bg-primary/20 text-primary text-xs font-bold">
                     Total In: {formatTokenValue(tokenStats.totalIn)}
                   </span>
-                  {tokenStats.cacheRead != null && tokenStats.cacheRead > 0 && (
-                    <span className="px-2 py-0.5 rounded bg-sky-500/20 text-sky-700 dark:text-sky-400 text-xs font-bold">
-                      Cache Read: {formatTokenValue(tokenStats.cacheRead)}
-                    </span>
-                  )}
-                  {tokenStats.cacheWrite != null && tokenStats.cacheWrite > 0 && (
-                    <span className="px-2 py-0.5 rounded bg-amber-500/20 text-amber-700 dark:text-amber-400 text-xs font-bold">
-                      Cache Write: {formatTokenValue(tokenStats.cacheWrite)}
-                    </span>
-                  )}
+                  <span className="px-2 py-0.5 rounded bg-sky-500/20 text-sky-700 dark:text-sky-400 text-xs font-bold">
+                    Cache Read: {formatTokenValue(tokenStats.cacheRead)}
+                  </span>
+                  <span className="px-2 py-0.5 rounded bg-amber-500/20 text-amber-700 dark:text-amber-400 text-xs font-bold">
+                    Cache Write: {formatTokenValue(tokenStats.cacheWrite)}
+                  </span>
                   {tokenStats.compressed != null &&
                     tokenStats.compressed > 0 &&
                     (() => {
diff --git a/tests/unit/request-log-detail-layout.test.ts b/tests/unit/request-log-detail-layout.test.ts
index b35afb4d5f..4e2a035ed1 100644
--- a/tests/unit/request-log-detail-layout.test.ts
+++ b/tests/unit/request-log-detail-layout.test.ts
@@ -116,9 +116,8 @@ test("request log detail splits token badges into input and output groups", () =
 
   assert.match(
     html,
-    /data-testid="token-group-input"[\s\S]*Total In: 21[\s\S]*818[\s\S]*Cache Read: 21[\s\S]*632/
+    /data-testid="token-group-input"[\s\S]*Total In: 21[\s\S]*818[\s\S]*Cache Read: 21[\s\S]*632[\s\S]*Cache Write: N\/A/
   );
-  assert.equal(html.includes("Cache Write:"), false);
   assert.match(html, /data-testid="token-group-output"[\s\S]*Total Out: 42[\s\S]*Reasoning: N\/A/);
 });
 
diff --git a/tests/unit/ui/request-logger-cache-tokens.test.tsx b/tests/unit/ui/request-logger-cache-tokens.test.tsx
index bdba7d771a..21f2797fa6 100644
--- a/tests/unit/ui/request-logger-cache-tokens.test.tsx
+++ b/tests/unit/ui/request-logger-cache-tokens.test.tsx
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ describe("request log cache token metrics (#9620)", () => {
     expect(outputGroup?.textContent).toContain("Reasoning: 50");
   });
 
-  it("omits cache metrics when historical logs contain zero or null values", async () => {
+  it("handles historical null and zero cache values without inventing usage", async () => {
     const emptyCacheLog = {
       ...populatedLog,
       id: "log-no-cache",
@@ -151,8 +151,8 @@ describe("request log cache token metrics (#9620)", () => {
     );
 
     const inputGroup = container.querySelector('[data-testid="token-group-input"]');
-    expect(inputGroup?.textContent).not.toContain("Cache Read");
-    expect(inputGroup?.textContent).not.toContain("Cache Write");
+    expect(inputGroup?.textContent).toContain("Cache Read: N/A");
+    expect(inputGroup?.textContent).toContain("Cache Write: 0");
     expect(inputGroup?.textContent).toContain("Total In: 1,000");
   });
 });