diff --git a/studio/backend/core/inference/video.py b/studio/backend/core/inference/video.py
index 95a84de10c..e66216a7c5 100644
--- a/studio/backend/core/inference/video.py
+++ b/studio/backend/core/inference/video.py
@@ -985,18 +985,36 @@ class VideoBackend:
             return None
 
     def _cache_bytes(self, repo_id: Optional[str]) -> int:
-        """Bytes of ``repo_id`` currently in the HF blob cache (progress polling)."""
+        """Bytes of ``repo_id`` currently in the HF blob cache (progress polling).
+
+        Walks the repo's cache directory directly instead of ``scan_cache_dir``:
+        the scanner skips in-flight ``*.incomplete`` blobs, so during a multi-GB
+        shard pull the counter would freeze at the last completed blob for minutes
+        while the disk keeps filling (the bar sat stuck mid-download)."""
         if not repo_id:
             return 0
         try:
-            from huggingface_hub import scan_cache_dir
-            rid = repo_id.strip()
-            for repo in scan_cache_dir().repos:
-                if repo.repo_id == rid:
-                    return int(repo.size_on_disk)
+            import os
+
+            from huggingface_hub.constants import HF_HUB_CACHE
+
+            folder = Path(HF_HUB_CACHE) / ("models--" + repo_id.strip().replace("/", "--"))
+            if not folder.is_dir():
+                return 0
+            total = 0
+            for root, _dirs, files in os.walk(folder):
+                for name in files:
+                    try:
+                        path = os.path.join(root, name)
+                        # Snapshot entries are symlinks into blobs/; skip them so a
+                        # blob is not counted twice.
+                        if not os.path.islink(path):
+                            total += os.path.getsize(path)
+                    except OSError:
+                        continue
+            return int(total)
         except Exception:  # noqa: BLE001 -- cache scan is best-effort
             return 0
-        return 0
 
     def load_progress(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
         """Phase + downloaded/total bytes for the in-flight load (cache-scan based)."""
@@ -2436,6 +2454,14 @@ class VideoBackend:
             if self._generate_job_active:
                 gen["active"] = True
         gen.setdefault("active", False)
+        # Mirror the image endpoint's field names (total_steps / fraction) alongside the
+        # native "total": the two generate-progress APIs used to disagree, so a client
+        # polling the image shape against video read total_steps=null / fraction=0 while
+        # the step counter advanced.
+        total = int(gen.get("total") or 0)
+        step = int(gen.get("step") or 0)
+        gen["total_steps"] = total
+        gen["fraction"] = min(1.0, step / total) if total > 0 else 0.0
         return gen
 
     def cancel_generate(self) -> bool:
diff --git a/studio/backend/models/inference.py b/studio/backend/models/inference.py
index 1cb2a1a9a1..692f9cf1fa 100644
--- a/studio/backend/models/inference.py
+++ b/studio/backend/models/inference.py
@@ -2620,6 +2620,9 @@ class VideoGenerateProgressResponse(BaseModel):
     )
     step: int = Field(0, description = "Denoising steps completed so far")
     total: int = Field(0, description = "Total denoising steps for this run")
+    # Image-endpoint-compatible aliases so one poller works against both APIs.
+    total_steps: int = Field(0, description = "Total denoising steps (alias of total)")
+    fraction: float = Field(0.0, description = "step / total, clamped to [0,1]")
     eta_seconds: Optional[float] = Field(None, description = "Estimated seconds remaining")
     video: Optional[GalleryVideo] = Field(
         None, description = "Saved gallery record when phase is 'completed'"
diff --git a/studio/backend/tests/test_video_backend.py b/studio/backend/tests/test_video_backend.py
index 5782ad8e1b..3dc98bf800 100644
--- a/studio/backend/tests/test_video_backend.py
+++ b/studio/backend/tests/test_video_backend.py
@@ -1063,10 +1063,49 @@ def test_generate_without_load_raises(fake_runtime):
 
 def test_generate_progress_and_cancel_idle(fake_runtime):
     backend = VideoBackend()
-    assert backend.generate_progress() == {"active": False}
+    # Idle shape carries the image-endpoint-compatible aliases (total_steps / fraction)
+    # so one poller works against both generate-progress APIs.
+    assert backend.generate_progress() == {
+        "active": False,
+        "total_steps": 0,
+        "fraction": 0.0,
+    }
     assert backend.cancel_generate() is False
 
 
+def test_generate_progress_derives_total_steps_and_fraction(fake_runtime):
+    # A mid-denoise poll must report fraction = step / total under BOTH field names:
+    # a client polling the image API's shape against video used to read
+    # total_steps=null / fraction=0 while step advanced.
+    backend = VideoBackend()
+    backend._gen = {"active": True, "phase": "denoise", "step": 5, "total": 20}
+    gen = backend.generate_progress()
+    assert gen["total"] == 20 and gen["total_steps"] == 20
+    assert gen["step"] == 5 and gen["fraction"] == 0.25
+
+
+def test_cache_bytes_counts_incomplete_blobs(fake_runtime, tmp_path, monkeypatch):
+    # scan_cache_dir skips in-flight *.incomplete blobs, so the old counter froze at the
+    # last completed blob for the whole multi-GB shard pull. The walk must count both,
+    # without double-counting snapshot symlinks.
+    import huggingface_hub.constants as hub_constants
+
+    repo_dir = tmp_path / "models--Wan-AI--Wan2.2-TI2V-5B-Diffusers"
+    blobs = repo_dir / "blobs"
+    blobs.mkdir(parents = True)
+    (blobs / "aa11").write_bytes(b"x" * 1000)  # completed blob
+    (blobs / "bb22.incomplete").write_bytes(b"y" * 500)  # in-flight shard
+    snap = repo_dir / "snapshots" / "deadbeef"
+    snap.mkdir(parents = True)
+    (snap / "model_index.json").symlink_to(blobs / "aa11")  # must not double-count
+    monkeypatch.setattr(hub_constants, "HF_HUB_CACHE", str(tmp_path))
+
+    backend = VideoBackend()
+    assert backend._cache_bytes("Wan-AI/Wan2.2-TI2V-5B-Diffusers") == 1500
+    assert backend._cache_bytes("Wan-AI/absent-repo") == 0
+    assert backend._cache_bytes(None) == 0
+
+
 def test_hv15_guider_and_scheduler_progress(fake_runtime):
     # HunyuanVideo-1.5: no guidance kwarg (CFG set on the guider), no step
     # callback (progress via the scheduler.step wrapper, restored afterwards).