diff --git a/tools/ui/src/lib/components/app/models/ModelsManager/ModelsManager.svelte b/tools/ui/src/lib/components/app/models/ModelsManager/ModelsManager.svelte
index 34dd455270..93c5e29097 100644
--- a/tools/ui/src/lib/components/app/models/ModelsManager/ModelsManager.svelte
+++ b/tools/ui/src/lib/components/app/models/ModelsManager/ModelsManager.svelte
@@ -148,7 +148,11 @@
 				ordered.push({
 					backendId: null,
 					isLocal: false,
-					items: leading(chatOnly),
+					// one repo, one row per provider that serves it
+					items: groupModelQuants(
+						chatOnly.flatMap((entry) => entry.quants),
+						true
+					),
 					key: 'oai-compat',
 					kind: 'compat',
 					label: 'OAI-compat'
diff --git a/tools/ui/src/lib/components/app/models/ModelsManager/ModelsManagerModelsTable.svelte b/tools/ui/src/lib/components/app/models/ModelsManager/ModelsManagerModelsTable.svelte
index 20c6ea86a6..f0177b52cc 100644
--- a/tools/ui/src/lib/components/app/models/ModelsManager/ModelsManagerModelsTable.svelte
+++ b/tools/ui/src/lib/components/app/models/ModelsManager/ModelsManagerModelsTable.svelte
@@ -229,10 +229,13 @@
 
 {#snippet repoRow(entry: ModelQuantGroup, indent = 0, compact = false)}
 	{@const isExpanded = !collapsedQuants.has(entry.key)}
+	{@const providerCount = new Set(entry.quants.map((option) => option.backendId ?? '')).size}
 	{@const groupLabel =
-		entry.kind === 'variants'
-			? `${entry.quants.length} variants`
-			: `${entry.quants.length} quants available`}
+		entry.kind === 'providers'
+			? `${providerCount} provider${providerCount === 1 ? '' : 's'}`
+			: entry.kind === 'variants'
+				? `${entry.quants.length} variants`
+				: `${entry.quants.length} quants available`}
 	{@const anyLoaded = entry.quants.some(isLoadedOption)}
 
 	<div class="px-2">
@@ -295,7 +298,7 @@
 	</div>
 {/snippet}
 
-{#snippet quantRow(option: ModelOption, indent = 0, compact = false)}
+{#snippet quantRow(option: ModelOption, indent = 0, compact = false, showProvider = false)}
 	{@const favorite = isFavorite(option)}
 	{@const canLoad = getBackendCapabilities(getBackend(option.backendId)).loadUnload}
 	{@const isHidden = modelsStore.isHidden(option.id)}
@@ -316,7 +319,9 @@
 			tabindex="0"
 		>
 			<span class="flex min-w-0 items-center gap-3" style="padding-left: {indent}px">
-				<Badge class="h-5 shrink-0 px-1.5 text-[10px]" variant="secondary">{quant}</Badge>
+				<Badge class="h-5 shrink-0 px-1.5 text-[10px]" variant="secondary">
+					{showProvider ? (getBackend(option.backendId)?.name ?? quant) : quant}
+				</Badge>
 
 				<span class="truncate text-sm text-muted-foreground">{option.model}</span>
 			</span>
@@ -347,7 +352,7 @@
 
 		{#if !collapsedQuants.has(entry.key)}
 			{#each entry.quants as quant (quant.id)}
-				{@render quantRow(quant, indent + 24, compact)}
+				{@render quantRow(quant, indent + 24, compact, entry.kind === 'providers')}
 			{/each}
 		{/if}
 	{:else}
diff --git a/tools/ui/src/lib/components/app/models/ModelsManager/utils.ts b/tools/ui/src/lib/components/app/models/ModelsManager/utils.ts
index 0ef7ead0cf..84baa09ab3 100644
--- a/tools/ui/src/lib/components/app/models/ModelsManager/utils.ts
+++ b/tools/ui/src/lib/components/app/models/ModelsManager/utils.ts
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ export type ModelOverrideMap = Record<string, ModelOverride>;
 export type { ModelLoadProgress };
 
 /** What a group folds, which decides its label. */
-export type ModelGroupKind = 'quants' | 'variants';
+export type ModelGroupKind = 'providers' | 'quants' | 'variants';
 
 /** One repo of the table, with the rows it ships as. */
 export interface ModelQuantGroup {
@@ -181,14 +181,15 @@ export function modelRepoKey(model: string): string {
 }
 
 /** Fold the quants of one repo into a single entry, so the table shows one row per model. */
-export function groupModelQuants(models: ModelOption[]): ModelQuantGroup[] {
+export function groupModelQuants(models: ModelOption[], mergeProviders = false): ModelQuantGroup[] {
 	const groups = new SvelteMap<string, ModelQuantGroup>();
 
 	for (const option of models) {
 		const repo = modelRepoKey(option.model);
 		// groups stay within one backend, so the same repo served by two providers
-		// is not read as two quants of one model
-		const key = `${option.backendId ?? ''}::${repo}`;
+		// is not read as two quants of one model. The OAI-compat block asks for the
+		// opposite: one repo, one row per provider that serves it.
+		const key = mergeProviders ? repo : `${option.backendId ?? ''}::${repo}`;
 		const group = groups.get(key);
 
 		if (group) {
@@ -204,8 +205,13 @@ export function groupModelQuants(models: ModelOption[]): ModelQuantGroup[] {
 		const kind = groupKind(group.quants);
 		const modelIds = group.quants.map((option) => option.model);
 
-		// the very same id twice is not a quant set; keep those rows apart
-		if (modelIds.length > 1 && modelIds.every((model) => model === modelIds[0])) {
+		// the very same id twice is not a quant set; keep those rows apart, unless
+		// the group exists to list the providers that serve it
+		if (
+			kind !== 'providers' &&
+			modelIds.length > 1 &&
+			modelIds.every((model) => model === modelIds[0])
+		) {
 			return group.quants.map((option) => ({
 				...group,
 				base: option,
@@ -219,8 +225,12 @@ export function groupModelQuants(models: ModelOption[]): ModelQuantGroup[] {
 	});
 }
 
-/** Quants share a quantization suffix; anything else is a variant. */
+/** What a group folds: providers, quants, or variants of one repo. */
 function groupKind(quants: ModelOption[]): ModelGroupKind {
+	const backends = new Set(quants.map((option) => option.backendId ?? ''));
+
+	if (backends.size > 1) return 'providers';
+
 	const isQuant = quants.every(
 		(option) => (option.parsedId ?? ModelsService.parseModelId(option.model)).quantization
 	);