diff --git a/tests/studio/run_real_mlx_smoke.py b/tests/studio/run_real_mlx_smoke.py
index 27f682ee4e..9a18313152 100644
--- a/tests/studio/run_real_mlx_smoke.py
+++ b/tests/studio/run_real_mlx_smoke.py
@@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ def cmd_train(args) -> int:
         )
         if k in train_result
     }
-    assert len(losses_per_step) == 7, f"expected 7 logged steps, got {losses_per_step}"
+    assert len(losses_per_step) == 30, f"expected 30 logged steps (logging_steps=1, max_steps=30), got {losses_per_step}"
     for i, l in enumerate(losses_per_step):
         # Allow exact 0.0: fp16 per-step loss underflows to 0.0 after
         # the LoRA reaches loss=0 around step ~10 with this fixture +