diff --git a/vllm/v1/attention/backends/flashinfer.py b/vllm/v1/attention/backends/flashinfer.py
index 2b206cbcf267..4abc014d1fbe 100755
--- a/vllm/v1/attention/backends/flashinfer.py
+++ b/vllm/v1/attention/backends/flashinfer.py
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@
     KVCacheLayoutType,
     get_dcp_local_seq_lens,
     get_kv_cache_layout,
+    get_num_attention_heads_from_layers,
     get_per_layer_parameters,
     infer_global_hyperparameters,
     split_decodes_and_prefills,
@@ -607,9 +608,10 @@ def __init__(
             self.use_dcp and vllm_config.parallel_config.dcp_comm_backend == "a2a"
         )
 
-        self.num_qo_heads = self.model_config.get_num_attention_heads(
-            self.vllm_config.parallel_config
-        )
+        # Compatible with models with non-uniform per-layer head counts.
+        self.num_qo_heads = get_num_attention_heads_from_layers(
+            vllm_config, layer_names
+        ) or self.model_config.get_num_attention_heads(self.vllm_config.parallel_config)
 
         self.num_kv_heads = self.kv_cache_spec.num_kv_heads
         self.head_dim = self.kv_cache_spec.head_size
diff --git a/vllm/v1/attention/backends/triton_attn.py b/vllm/v1/attention/backends/triton_attn.py
index aa7645f3e294..b68776375fc0 100644
--- a/vllm/v1/attention/backends/triton_attn.py
+++ b/vllm/v1/attention/backends/triton_attn.py
@@ -30,7 +30,10 @@
     CommonAttentionMetadata,
     MultipleOf,
 )
-from vllm.v1.attention.backends.utils import get_kv_cache_layout
+from vllm.v1.attention.backends.utils import (
+    get_kv_cache_layout,
+    get_num_attention_heads_from_layers,
+)
 from vllm.v1.attention.ops.triton_prefill_attention import context_attention_fwd
 from vllm.v1.attention.ops.triton_reshape_and_cache_flash import (
     triton_reshape_and_cache_flash,
@@ -139,9 +142,10 @@ def __init__(
         self.block_size = kv_cache_spec.block_size
 
         model_config = vllm_config.model_config
-        self.num_heads_q = model_config.get_num_attention_heads(
-            vllm_config.parallel_config
-        )
+        # Compatible with models with non-uniform per-layer head counts.
+        self.num_heads_q = get_num_attention_heads_from_layers(
+            vllm_config, layer_names
+        ) or model_config.get_num_attention_heads(vllm_config.parallel_config)
         self.num_heads_kv = model_config.get_num_kv_heads(vllm_config.parallel_config)
         self.headdim = model_config.get_head_size()
 
diff --git a/vllm/v1/attention/backends/utils.py b/vllm/v1/attention/backends/utils.py
index d09c01eb9059..b73d17e8e5cc 100644
--- a/vllm/v1/attention/backends/utils.py
+++ b/vllm/v1/attention/backends/utils.py
@@ -136,6 +136,32 @@ def get_per_layer_parameters(
     return per_layer_params
 
 
+def get_num_attention_heads_from_layers(
+    vllm_config: VllmConfig, layer_names: list[str]
+) -> int | None:
+    """Per-TP-rank ``num_heads`` shared by the named Attention layers.
+
+    Use in metadata builders whose plan-time allocations depend on the
+    head count: the model-wide ``get_num_attention_heads()`` is wrong
+    for models with non-uniform per-layer head counts. All layers in
+    one attention group must agree on ``num_heads``; this is asserted.
+    Returns ``None`` when no matching Attention layer is found.
+    """
+    attn_layers = get_layers_from_vllm_config(
+        vllm_config,
+        AttentionLayerBase,  # type: ignore[type-abstract]
+        layer_names,
+    )
+    if not attn_layers:
+        return None
+    heads = {layer.impl.num_heads for layer in attn_layers.values()}
+    assert len(heads) == 1, (
+        f"All layers in one attention group must share num_heads; "
+        f"got {heads} for {layer_names}."
+    )
+    return heads.pop()
+
+
 def infer_global_hyperparameters(
     per_layer_params: dict[str, PerLayerParameters],
 ) -> PerLayerParameters: