diff --git a/admin/frontend/models.html b/admin/frontend/models.html
index b7df065..f6bebb1 100644
--- a/admin/frontend/models.html
+++ b/admin/frontend/models.html
@@ -193,6 +193,10 @@ header.navbar{padding-top:2px!important;padding-bottom:2px!important}
                   <h3 class="card-title mb-0">Model Availability</h3>
                 </div>
                 <div class="card-subtitle text-muted ms-2">Change the override dropdown to mark a model active, deprecated, or stale</div>
+                <div class="ms-auto form-check form-switch mb-0">
+                  <input class="form-check-input" type="checkbox" id="show-deprecated-toggle" onchange="renderModels(_modelsCache)">
+                  <label class="form-check-label small text-muted" for="show-deprecated-toggle">Show deprecated / stale</label>
+                </div>
               </div>
               <div class="table-responsive">
                 <table class="table table-vcenter table-hover card-table">
@@ -302,13 +306,24 @@ function connectSSE() {
    MODEL AVAILABILITY TABLE
    ═══════════════════════════════════════ */
 
+let _modelsCache = [];
+
 function renderModels(models) {
+  _modelsCache = models || [];
   const tbody = document.getElementById('model-tbody');
   if (!models || !models.length) {
     tbody.innerHTML = '<tr><td colspan="5" class="text-muted text-center">No models</td></tr>';
     return;
   }
-  const html = models.filter(m => (m.access_level === 'public') || !m.access_level).map(m => {
+  const toggleEl = document.getElementById('show-deprecated-toggle');
+  const showDeprecated = toggleEl ? toggleEl.checked : false;
+  const visible = models.filter(m => (m.access_level === 'public') || !m.access_level)
+    .filter(m => showDeprecated || (m.effective_availability !== 'deprecated' && m.effective_availability !== 'stale'));
+  if (!visible.length) {
+    tbody.innerHTML = '<tr><td colspan="5" class="text-muted text-center">No models match the current filter</td></tr>';
+    return;
+  }
+  const html = visible.map(m => {
     const availClass = { active: 'var(--tblr-success)', deprecated: 'var(--tblr-danger)', stale: 'var(--tblr-warning)' }[m.effective_availability] || 'var(--tblr-secondary)';
     const selectOpts = ['active','deprecated','stale'].map(a =>
       `<option value="${a}"${m.effective_availability===a?' selected':''}>${a}</option>`
diff --git a/tests/test_admin_frontend.py b/tests/test_admin_frontend.py
index cce40c8..7e434af 100644
--- a/tests/test_admin_frontend.py
+++ b/tests/test_admin_frontend.py
@@ -142,6 +142,19 @@ def test_admin_models_returns_html_with_availability_marker(admin_client):
     assert "Model Availability" in resp.text
 
 
+def test_admin_models_hides_deprecated_by_default_with_a_toggle_to_show_them(admin_client):
+    """The models page defaults to hiding deprecated/stale rows (e.g. after
+    the OpenRouter allowlist prunes 425 down to 30) behind a toggle, rather
+    than always rendering every row regardless of availability."""
+    resp = admin_client.get("/admin/models")
+    text = resp.text
+    assert 'id="show-deprecated-toggle"' in text
+    # Default unchecked: renderModels must read the toggle's checked state
+    # and exclude deprecated/stale unless it's on.
+    assert "effective_availability !== 'deprecated'" in text
+    assert "effective_availability !== 'stale'" in text
+
+
 def test_admin_profiles_returns_html_with_profiles_marker(admin_client):
     """GET /admin/profiles returns 200, text/html, and contains the Chart.js
     tag and the Profiles page marker."""