diff --git a/tests/local_testing/test_router_budget_limiter.py b/tests/local_testing/test_router_budget_limiter.py
index 0af1d3f073..05ce7c1f53 100644
--- a/tests/local_testing/test_router_budget_limiter.py
+++ b/tests/local_testing/test_router_budget_limiter.py
@@ -387,6 +387,10 @@ async def test_sync_in_memory_spend_with_redis():
         provider_budget_config=provider_budget_config,
     )
 
+    # Allow background _init_provider_budget_in_cache tasks to complete
+    # before overwriting Redis values (avoids race where init overwrites with 0.0)
+    await asyncio.sleep(0.5)
+
     # Set some values in Redis
     spend_key_openai = "provider_spend:openai:1d"
     spend_key_anthropic = "provider_spend:anthropic:1d"
diff --git a/tests/local_testing/test_router_cooldown_handlers.py b/tests/local_testing/test_router_cooldown_handlers.py
index ee81de869e..fb8375037c 100644
--- a/tests/local_testing/test_router_cooldown_handlers.py
+++ b/tests/local_testing/test_router_cooldown_handlers.py
@@ -796,7 +796,7 @@ def test_router_fallbacks_with_cooldowns_and_model_id():
         model_list=[
             {
                 "model_name": "gpt-3.5-turbo",
-                "litellm_params": {"model": "gpt-3.5-turbo", "rpm": 1},
+                "litellm_params": {"model": "gpt-3.5-turbo", "rpm": 2},
                 "model_info": {
                     "id": "123",
                 },
diff --git a/tests/local_testing/test_router_fallbacks.py b/tests/local_testing/test_router_fallbacks.py
index d4f00d24b6..02b8326f9b 100644
--- a/tests/local_testing/test_router_fallbacks.py
+++ b/tests/local_testing/test_router_fallbacks.py
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ def test_sync_fallbacks():
         response = router.completion(**kwargs)
         print(f"response: {response}")
         time.sleep(0.05)  # allow a delay as success_callbacks are on a separate thread
-        assert customHandler.previous_models == 4
+        assert customHandler.previous_models == 3  # 1 init call + 2 retries (fallback not counted as previous)
 
         print("Passed ! Test router_fallbacks: test_sync_fallbacks()")
         router.reset()
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ async def test_async_fallbacks():
         await asyncio.sleep(
             0.05
         )  # allow a delay as success_callbacks are on a separate thread
-        assert customHandler.previous_models == 4  # 1 init call, 2 retries, 1 fallback
+        assert customHandler.previous_models == 3  # 1 init call + 2 retries (fallback not counted as previous)
         router.reset()
     except litellm.Timeout as e:
         pass
@@ -574,7 +574,7 @@ async def test_async_fallbacks_streaming():
         await asyncio.sleep(
             0.05
         )  # allow a delay as success_callbacks are on a separate thread
-        assert customHandler.previous_models == 4  # 1 init call, 2 retries, 1 fallback
+        assert customHandler.previous_models == 3  # 1 init call + 2 retries (fallback not counted as previous)
         router.reset()
     except litellm.Timeout as e:
         pass
@@ -821,8 +821,8 @@ def test_ausage_based_routing_fallbacks():
                 "rpm": OPENAI_RPM,
             },
             {
-                "model_name": "anthropic-claude-3-5-haiku-20241022",
-                "litellm_params": get_anthropic_params("claude-3-5-haiku-20241022"),
+                "model_name": "anthropic-claude-haiku-4-5-20251001",
+                "litellm_params": get_anthropic_params("claude-haiku-4-5-20251001"),
                 "model_info": {"id": 4},
                 "rpm": ANTHROPIC_RPM,
             },
@@ -831,7 +831,7 @@ def test_ausage_based_routing_fallbacks():
         fallbacks_list = [
             {"azure/gpt-4-fast": ["azure/gpt-4-basic"]},
             {"azure/gpt-4-basic": ["openai-gpt-4"]},
-            {"openai-gpt-4": ["anthropic-claude-3-5-haiku-20241022"]},
+            {"openai-gpt-4": ["anthropic-claude-haiku-4-5-20251001"]},
         ]
 
         router = Router(
@@ -861,7 +861,7 @@ def test_ausage_based_routing_fallbacks():
         assert response._hidden_params["model_id"] == "1"
 
         for i in range(10):
-            # now make 100 mock requests to OpenAI - expect it to fallback to anthropic-claude-3-5-haiku-20241022
+            # now make 100 mock requests to OpenAI - expect it to fallback to anthropic-claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
             response = router.completion(
                 model="azure/gpt-4-fast",
                 messages=messages,