diff --git a/.changeset/duration-axis-tick-width.md b/.changeset/duration-axis-tick-width.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4b3192989f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/duration-axis-tick-width.md
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+---
+'@hyperdx/app': patch
+---
+
+fix: keep duration axis-tick labels within the chart's width budget
+
+Duration-formatted Y-axis labels (e.g. "13.33min") could render wider than the axis area allows and get clipped. They now use the same compact formatter already used by the heatmap chart's axis.
diff --git a/packages/app/src/HDXMultiSeriesTimeChart.tsx b/packages/app/src/HDXMultiSeriesTimeChart.tsx
index 1cab711763..2e5c6cb004 100644
--- a/packages/app/src/HDXMultiSeriesTimeChart.tsx
+++ b/packages/app/src/HDXMultiSeriesTimeChart.tsx
@@ -32,7 +32,12 @@ import { DisplayType } from '@hyperdx/common-utils/dist/types';
 import { Popover } from '@mantine/core';
 
 import type { NumberFormat } from '@/types';
-import { COLORS, formatNumber, truncateMiddle } from '@/utils';
+import {
+  COLORS,
+  formatDurationMsCompact,
+  formatNumber,
+  truncateMiddle,
+} from '@/utils';
 
 import {
   AnnotationHitLayer,
@@ -838,6 +843,14 @@ export function formatAxisTick(
     }).format(value);
   }
 
+  // formatNumber returns early for 'duration', before the mantissa/width
+  // safety below ever runs, and formatDurationMs has no width budget of its
+  // own - use the compact formatter instead, as DBHeatmapChart's axis does.
+  if (axisNumberFormat.output === 'duration') {
+    const factor = axisNumberFormat.factor ?? 1;
+    return formatDurationMsCompact(value * factor * 1000);
+  }
+
   const displayed = axisNumberFormat.output === 'percent' ? value * 100 : value;
 
   return formatNumber(value, {
diff --git a/packages/app/src/__tests__/HDXMultiSeriesTimeChart.test.ts b/packages/app/src/__tests__/HDXMultiSeriesTimeChart.test.ts
index af96261cda..2f8ac5df38 100644
--- a/packages/app/src/__tests__/HDXMultiSeriesTimeChart.test.ts
+++ b/packages/app/src/__tests__/HDXMultiSeriesTimeChart.test.ts
@@ -134,6 +134,30 @@ describe('formatAxisTick', () => {
   it('uses compact Intl formatting when no axisNumberFormat is set', () => {
     expect(formatAxisTick(1234)).toBe('1.2K');
   });
+
+  describe('duration output', () => {
+    // Regression: 'duration' bypasses this formatter's width safety entirely
+    // (formatNumber returns early for it), and formatDurationMs has no width
+    // budget of its own - e.g. "13.33min" is 8 characters.
+    it('renders minutes with a single-character unit, not "min"', () => {
+      expect(formatAxisTick(799.8, { output: 'duration' })).toBe('13m');
+    });
+
+    it('renders seconds compactly', () => {
+      expect(formatAxisTick(39.51, { output: 'duration' })).toBe('39.5s');
+    });
+
+    it('respects a configured factor, matching formatNumber`s own duration math', () => {
+      expect(
+        formatAxisTick(442_800, { output: 'duration', factor: 0.001 }),
+      ).toBe('7.4m');
+    });
+
+    it('renders sub-millisecond and hour-scale values compactly too', () => {
+      expect(formatAxisTick(0.0000005, { output: 'duration' })).toBe('500ns');
+      expect(formatAxisTick(7500, { output: 'duration' })).toBe('2.1h');
+    });
+  });
 });
 
 describe('collectMemoChartGradientHexes', () => {