diff --git a/.github/workflows/test-litellm-ui-lint.yml b/.github/workflows/test-litellm-ui-lint.yml
index 226cbf6a879a..5a5c4709ca21 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test-litellm-ui-lint.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test-litellm-ui-lint.yml
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ jobs:
         if: ${{ !cancelled() && steps.changed.outputs.has_files == 'true' }}
         run: |
           npx eslint . -f json -o "$RUNNER_TEMP/lint-report.json" || true
-          node scripts/check-lint-budgets.mjs "$RUNNER_TEMP/lint-report.json" eslint-budgets.json --check eslint-metrics.json
+          node scripts/check-lint-budgets.mjs "$RUNNER_TEMP/lint-report.json" eslint-budgets.json
 
       - name: Check for dead code (knip)
         if: ${{ !cancelled() && steps.changed.outputs.has_files == 'true' }}
diff --git a/scripts/pre_commit_lint.sh b/scripts/pre_commit_lint.sh
index bd416ab814d0..d6b79f0111a7 100755
--- a/scripts/pre_commit_lint.sh
+++ b/scripts/pre_commit_lint.sh
@@ -75,19 +75,12 @@ EOF
             npx eslint --no-warn-ignored --pass-on-unpruned-suppressions "${eslint_rel[@]}" || rc=1
         fi
         # Whole-folder lint budgets, exactly as the frontend-lint job runs them: the
-        # counts and the committed metrics file are not diff-scoped, so a local pass
-        # here means the budget step will pass in CI too. Unlike CI (which --checks and
-        # fails), regenerate eslint-metrics.json from the same report — same as the
-        # gen:api block below regenerates schema.d.ts — then flag drift so you re-stage
-        # it, instead of making you run npm run lint:metrics by hand.
+        # counts are not diff-scoped, so a local pass here means the budget step will
+        # pass in CI too.
         report=$(mktemp)
         npx eslint . -f json -o "$report" || true
-        node scripts/check-lint-budgets.mjs "$report" eslint-budgets.json --write eslint-metrics.json || rc=1
+        node scripts/check-lint-budgets.mjs "$report" eslint-budgets.json || rc=1
         rm -f "$report"
-        if ! git diff --quiet -- eslint-metrics.json; then
-            echo "✗ eslint-metrics.json was stale; regenerated it. Stage it and re-run make pre-commit." >&2
-            rc=1
-        fi
         exit $rc
     )
 }
diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/eslint-metrics.json b/ui/litellm-dashboard/eslint-metrics.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 8ae7dc88c3d2..000000000000
--- a/ui/litellm-dashboard/eslint-metrics.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "@typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any": 1971,
-  "complexity": 129,
-  "local/no-large-inline-object-arg": 501,
-  "local/no-long-condition-chain": 234,
-  "max-depth": 59,
-  "no-console": 16
-}
diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/package.json b/ui/litellm-dashboard/package.json
index e35620c4996f..40c495cebf1f 100644
--- a/ui/litellm-dashboard/package.json
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/package.json
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
     "build": "next build",
     "start": "next start",
     "lint": "eslint .",
-    "lint:metrics": "node scripts/update-lint-metrics.mjs",
     "test": "vitest",
     "test:dot": "vitest --reporter=dot",
     "test:watch": "vitest -w",
diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/scripts/check-lint-budgets.mjs b/ui/litellm-dashboard/scripts/check-lint-budgets.mjs
index db0842fb2ec5..3eec15a3a260 100644
--- a/ui/litellm-dashboard/scripts/check-lint-budgets.mjs
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/scripts/check-lint-budgets.mjs
@@ -1,20 +1,7 @@
-import { readFileSync, writeFileSync } from "fs";
-import { countBudgetViolations, findDrift } from "./lint-budget-lib.mjs";
+import { readFileSync } from "fs";
+import { countBudgetViolations } from "./lint-budget-lib.mjs";
 
-const argv = process.argv.slice(2);
-const positional = [];
-const flags = {};
-for (let i = 0; i < argv.length; i += 1) {
-  if (argv[i] === "--check") {
-    flags.check = argv[(i += 1)];
-  } else if (argv[i] === "--write") {
-    flags.write = argv[(i += 1)];
-  } else {
-    positional.push(argv[i]);
-  }
-}
-
-const [reportPath, budgetsPath] = positional;
+const [reportPath, budgetsPath] = process.argv.slice(2);
 const report = JSON.parse(readFileSync(reportPath, "utf8"));
 const budgets = JSON.parse(readFileSync(budgetsPath, "utf8"));
 const counts = countBudgetViolations(report, budgets);
@@ -32,25 +19,4 @@ for (const [rule, { max, target }] of Object.entries(budgets)) {
   }
 }
 
-if (flags.write) {
-  writeFileSync(flags.write, JSON.stringify(counts, null, 2) + "\n");
-  console.log(`Wrote ${flags.write}.`);
-}
-
-if (flags.check) {
-  const committed = JSON.parse(readFileSync(flags.check, "utf8"));
-  const drift = findDrift(committed, counts);
-  for (const { rule, committed: was, actual } of drift) {
-    console.error(
-      `::error::${flags.check} is stale for ${rule}: committed ${was ?? "missing"}, actual ${actual ?? "not a tracked rule"}.`,
-    );
-  }
-  if (drift.length > 0) {
-    console.error(`::error::Run \`npm run lint:metrics\` and commit ${flags.check}.`);
-    failed = true;
-  } else {
-    console.log(`${flags.check} is up to date.`);
-  }
-}
-
 process.exit(failed ? 1 : 0);
diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/scripts/lint-budget-lib.mjs b/ui/litellm-dashboard/scripts/lint-budget-lib.mjs
index a43305fc4edc..9b32bb0d3a0c 100644
--- a/ui/litellm-dashboard/scripts/lint-budget-lib.mjs
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/scripts/lint-budget-lib.mjs
@@ -13,10 +13,3 @@ export function countBudgetViolations(report, budgets) {
       .map((rule) => [rule, counts[rule] || 0]),
   );
 }
-
-export function findDrift(committed, actual) {
-  const rules = [...new Set([...Object.keys(actual), ...Object.keys(committed)])].sort();
-  return rules
-    .filter((rule) => committed[rule] !== actual[rule])
-    .map((rule) => ({ rule, committed: committed[rule] ?? null, actual: actual[rule] ?? null }));
-}
diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/scripts/update-lint-metrics.mjs b/ui/litellm-dashboard/scripts/update-lint-metrics.mjs
deleted file mode 100644
index 16704d1f7a29..000000000000
--- a/ui/litellm-dashboard/scripts/update-lint-metrics.mjs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-import { execSync } from "child_process";
-import { mkdtempSync, readFileSync, writeFileSync, rmSync } from "fs";
-import { tmpdir } from "os";
-import { join } from "path";
-import { countBudgetViolations } from "./lint-budget-lib.mjs";
-
-const ESLINT_EXIT_LINT_ERRORS = 1;
-
-const budgets = JSON.parse(readFileSync("eslint-budgets.json", "utf8"));
-const dir = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "litellm-lint-"));
-const reportPath = join(dir, "report.json");
-
-try {
-  execSync(`npx eslint . -f json -o "${reportPath}"`, { stdio: "inherit" });
-} catch (err) {
-  if (err.status !== ESLINT_EXIT_LINT_ERRORS) throw err;
-}
-
-const report = JSON.parse(readFileSync(reportPath, "utf8"));
-rmSync(dir, { recursive: true, force: true });
-
-const metrics = countBudgetViolations(report, budgets);
-writeFileSync("eslint-metrics.json", JSON.stringify(metrics, null, 2) + "\n");
-console.log("Updated eslint-metrics.json");
-console.table(metrics);
diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/tests/lint-budget-lib.test.ts b/ui/litellm-dashboard/tests/lint-budget-lib.test.ts
index 75b5efe6d1de..c66cdd1e2abb 100644
--- a/ui/litellm-dashboard/tests/lint-budget-lib.test.ts
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/tests/lint-budget-lib.test.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { describe, it, expect } from "vitest";
-import { countBudgetViolations, findDrift } from "../scripts/lint-budget-lib.mjs";
+import { countBudgetViolations } from "../scripts/lint-budget-lib.mjs";
 
 const budgets = {
   "@typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any": { max: 10, target: 5 },
@@ -35,21 +35,3 @@ describe("countBudgetViolations", () => {
     ]);
   });
 });
-
-describe("findDrift", () => {
-  it("reports no drift when the snapshot matches the actual counts", () => {
-    expect(findDrift({ complexity: 5 }, { complexity: 5 })).toEqual([]);
-  });
-
-  it("detects a changed count", () => {
-    expect(findDrift({ complexity: 5 }, { complexity: 7 })).toEqual([{ rule: "complexity", committed: 5, actual: 7 }]);
-  });
-
-  it("detects a rule missing from the committed snapshot", () => {
-    expect(findDrift({}, { complexity: 7 })).toEqual([{ rule: "complexity", committed: null, actual: 7 }]);
-  });
-
-  it("detects a phantom rule the committed snapshot still carries", () => {
-    expect(findDrift({ "removed-rule": 3 }, {})).toEqual([{ rule: "removed-rule", committed: 3, actual: null }]);
-  });
-});