diff --git a/src/app/api/documents/inbound/usage/route.ts b/src/app/api/documents/inbound/usage/route.ts
index 4e0f45b89..a81fbe207 100644
--- a/src/app/api/documents/inbound/usage/route.ts
+++ b/src/app/api/documents/inbound/usage/route.ts
@@ -49,7 +49,12 @@ export const GET = apiHandler(async () => {
       // offers what the endpoint would 422.
       resolveOcrCapability(user.id),
       // Content-index coverage: how many live documents are indexed …
-      prisma.documentContentIndex.count({ where: { userId: user.id } }),
+      // Scope the count to LIVE documents: a soft-deleted document keeps its
+      // index row (cascade fires on hard purge only), so an unscoped count
+      // would drift above `totalCount` and read the gauge past 100 %.
+      prisma.documentContentIndex.count({
+        where: { userId: user.id, document: { deletedAt: null } },
+      }),
       // … out of how many live documents there are.
       prisma.inboundDocument.count({
         where: { userId: user.id, deletedAt: null },
diff --git a/src/components/documents/document-ai-panels.tsx b/src/components/documents/document-ai-panels.tsx
index d24b0b1f2..e0a6b728b 100644
--- a/src/components/documents/document-ai-panels.tsx
+++ b/src/components/documents/document-ai-panels.tsx
@@ -298,12 +298,7 @@ export function ContentIndexStatus({
       data-slot="content-index-status"
       className="flex items-center justify-between gap-2"
     >
-      <p
-        className={cn(
-          "inline-flex items-center gap-1.5 text-xs",
-          hasContentIndex ? "text-muted-foreground" : "text-muted-foreground",
-        )}
-      >
+      <p className="text-muted-foreground inline-flex items-center gap-1.5 text-xs">
         <ScanSearch className="size-3.5 shrink-0" aria-hidden />
         {hasContentIndex
           ? t("documents.contentIndex.searchable")