diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a69cae22d..537a3f1d2 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -328,6 +328,10 @@ public 50 the old detector named an example's `samples.csv` and the input
   a fresh user-visible authorization instead. Credentials stored before this
   release are bound on their next successful refresh. Reported by Saku0512
   (CWE-522).
+- **A price tier now begins where it says it does.** Its start came from the
+  tier above ending, so a gap in the catalog charged the higher rate for
+  prompts too small to have reached it. A base tier written as `min: 1` is also
+  recognised now, instead of dropping the model from pricing altogether.
 - **Listing files now returns them in a stable order.** Files written at the
   same moment — by a checkout, a build, or a script — share a timestamp, so
   their order came from the filesystem and two identical searches could list
diff --git a/backend/cli/src/provider/managed-pricing.ts b/backend/cli/src/provider/managed-pricing.ts
index e010e1cf3..47c94431d 100644
--- a/backend/cli/src/provider/managed-pricing.ts
+++ b/backend/cli/src/provider/managed-pricing.ts
@@ -105,7 +105,10 @@ export namespace ManagedPricing {
       if (!MANAGED_OPENROUTER_MODEL_SET.has(model.id) || model.available === false) continue
       const pricing = metadata(model.pricing, model.hosting_provider, model.upstream_provider)
       if (!pricing) continue
-      const first = model.pricing.tiers.find((tier) => !tier.min_input_tokens)
+      // Token counts start at 1, so an explicit min of 1 is the base tier and
+      // means the same as omitting it. Looking it up by falsiness missed that
+      // spelling and dropped the whole model out of the catalog.
+      const first = model.pricing.tiers.find((tier) => !tier.min_input_tokens || tier.min_input_tokens <= 1)
       if (!first || (first.input === 0 && first.output === 0)) continue
       const cost = (tier: z.infer<typeof Tier>) => ({
         input: tier.input,
@@ -116,7 +119,10 @@ export namespace ManagedPricing {
         prices
           .map((tier, index) => ({
             ...tier,
-            threshold: prices[index - 1]?.max_input_tokens ?? (tier.min_input_tokens ?? 1) - 1,
+            // A tier applies from its own min. The previous tier's max is the
+            // same number only when the catalog is contiguous, and preferring it
+            // charged a tier's rate from as early as the tier above ended.
+            threshold: (tier.min_input_tokens ?? 1) - 1,
           }))
           .filter((tier) => tier.min_input_tokens !== undefined && tier.threshold > 0)
           .map((tier) => ({ ...cost(tier), threshold: tier.threshold }))
diff --git a/backend/cli/test/provider/managed-pricing-tiers.test.ts b/backend/cli/test/provider/managed-pricing-tiers.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..61a79322f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend/cli/test/provider/managed-pricing-tiers.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+import { describe, expect, test } from "bun:test"
+import { ManagedPricing } from "../../src/provider/managed-pricing"
+
+const model = (tiers: unknown[]) => ({
+  id: "anthropic/claude-opus-5.5",
+  context_length: 1_000_000,
+  upstream_provider: "anthropic",
+  hosting_provider: "anthropic",
+  pricing: { funding_fee_bps: 0, tiers },
+})
+
+const price = (tiers: unknown[]) => ManagedPricing.parse({ models: [model(tiers)] })["anthropic/claude-opus-5.5"]
+
+describe("ManagedPricing tier thresholds", () => {
+  test("a tier starts where it declares, even when the previous one ends earlier", () => {
+    // The threshold came from the previous tier's max, so a gap in the catalog
+    // charged the 201+ rate from 101 tokens up.
+    const gap = price([
+      { input: 2, output: 12, max_input_tokens: 100 },
+      { input: 4, output: 18, min_input_tokens: 201 },
+    ])
+    expect(gap?.cost.tiers?.[0]?.threshold).toBe(200)
+  })
+
+  test("contiguous tiers are unaffected", () => {
+    const contiguous = price([
+      { input: 2, output: 12, max_input_tokens: 100 },
+      { input: 4, output: 18, min_input_tokens: 101 },
+    ])
+    expect(contiguous?.cost.tiers?.[0]?.threshold).toBe(100)
+  })
+
+  test("a selection above the gap but below the tier's min does not pick that tier", () => {
+    const gap = price([
+      { input: 2, output: 12, max_input_tokens: 100 },
+      { input: 4, output: 18, min_input_tokens: 201 },
+    ])
+    const threshold = gap?.cost.tiers?.[0]?.threshold ?? 0
+    // Selection elsewhere is `promptTokens > threshold`, so a 150-token prompt
+    // must not satisfy a tier that only starts at 201.
+    expect(150 > threshold).toBe(false)
+    expect(201 > threshold).toBe(true)
+  })
+
+  test("an explicit base min of 1 still prices the model", () => {
+    // Token counts start at 1, so `min: 1` is the base tier, identical to an
+    // omitted min. The base was looked up with `!tier.min_input_tokens`, which
+    // is false for 1, so the model vanished from the catalog entirely.
+    const explicit = price([
+      { input: 2, output: 12, min_input_tokens: 1 },
+      { input: 4, output: 18, min_input_tokens: 200_001 },
+    ])
+    const omitted = price([
+      { input: 2, output: 12 },
+      { input: 4, output: 18, min_input_tokens: 200_001 },
+    ])
+    expect(explicit?.cost.input).toBe(2)
+    expect(explicit?.cost).toEqual(omitted?.cost)
+  })
+})