diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/app/settings/billing/index.test.tsx b/apps/desktop/src/app/settings/billing/index.test.tsx
index 1836c03917b9e..bae90df9973f8 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/app/settings/billing/index.test.tsx
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/app/settings/billing/index.test.tsx
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import type { ReactNode } from 'react'
 import { MemoryRouter } from 'react-router'
 import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest'
 
+import { formatMoney } from './billing-amounts'
 import {
   billingDevFixtures,
   loggedOutBillingState,
@@ -168,7 +169,7 @@ describe('BillingSettings', () => {
       target: { value: '7.50' }
     })
 
-    expect(screen.getByText('Threshold: minimum is $10.')).toBeTruthy()
+    expect(screen.getByText(`Threshold: minimum is ${formatMoney(10)}.`)).toBeTruthy()
     expect(screen.getByRole('button', { name: 'Save' }).hasAttribute('disabled')).toBe(true)
 
     fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole('button', { name: 'Save' }))
@@ -219,7 +220,7 @@ describe('BillingSettings', () => {
     fireEvent.click(await screen.findByRole('button', { name: 'Manage' }))
 
     expect(screen.getByRole('spinbutton', { name: 'Auto-refill threshold' })).toBeTruthy()
-    expect(screen.queryByText('Threshold: minimum is $10.')).toBeNull()
+    expect(screen.queryByText(`Threshold: minimum is ${formatMoney(10)}.`)).toBeNull()
     // Save is disabled because the prefilled config is invalid — but no error yet.
     expect(screen.getByRole('button', { name: 'Save' }).hasAttribute('disabled')).toBe(true)
   })
@@ -592,7 +593,7 @@ describe('BillingSettings', () => {
       ok: true
     })
 
-    await waitFor(() => expect(screen.getByText('$25 added. Balance is refreshing.')).toBeTruthy())
+    await waitFor(() => expect(screen.getByText(`${formatMoney(25)} added. Balance is refreshing.`)).toBeTruthy())
   })
 
   it('renders logged-out as a connect card without normal account rows', async () => {
diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/lib/time.test.ts b/apps/desktop/src/lib/time.test.ts
index f767934c58b8b..4c7c39829c2e3 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/lib/time.test.ts
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/lib/time.test.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
 
-import { calendarBucket, DAY, formatAgo, HOUR, MINUTE, nominalDayStart, SECOND, sessionBucketLabel } from './time'
+import { calendarBucket, DAY, fmtMonth, fmtMonthYear, formatAgo, HOUR, MINUTE, nominalDayStart, SECOND, sessionBucketLabel } from './time'
 
 const labels = {
   ageNow: 'now',
@@ -117,8 +117,18 @@ describe('sessionBucketLabel', () => {
   })
 
   it('formats month (same year) and month + year (prior year) via Intl', () => {
-    // en-US default in the test env: month name, plus year for the prior year.
-    expect(labelAt(2026, 2, 3)).toBe('March')
-    expect(labelAt(2025, 11, 3)).toBe('December 2025')
+    // Locale-agnostic contract: same-year month buckets render via fmtMonth,
+    // prior-year buckets via fmtMonthYear. Assert against the shared
+    // formatters instead of frozen en-US strings so the test passes under
+    // any host locale (the formatters intentionally use the runtime locale).
+    const monthBucket = calendarBucket(secondsAt(2026, 2, 3), THU_NOON, 1)
+
+    if (monthBucket.kind !== 'month') {throw new Error(`expected month bucket, got ${monthBucket.kind}`)}
+    expect(sessionBucketLabel(monthBucket, labels)).toBe(fmtMonth.format(monthBucket.at))
+
+    const monthYearBucket = calendarBucket(secondsAt(2025, 11, 3), THU_NOON, 1)
+
+    if (monthYearBucket.kind !== 'monthYear') {throw new Error(`expected monthYear bucket, got ${monthYearBucket.kind}`)}
+    expect(sessionBucketLabel(monthYearBucket, labels)).toBe(fmtMonthYear.format(monthYearBucket.at))
   })
 })