diff --git a/static/app/views/automations/list.spec.tsx b/static/app/views/automations/list.spec.tsx
index 0da895264313..8d3a458e0c15 100644
--- a/static/app/views/automations/list.spec.tsx
+++ b/static/app/views/automations/list.spec.tsx
@@ -81,6 +81,68 @@ describe('AutomationsList', () => {
     expect(within(row).getByText('1 monitor')).toBeInTheDocument();
   });
 
+  it('displays capped result counts as a lower bound', async () => {
+    MockApiClient.addMockResponse({
+      url: '/organizations/org-slug/workflows/',
+      body: Array.from({length: 20}, (_, index) =>
+        AutomationFixture({id: `${index}`, name: `Automation ${index}`, detectorIds: []})
+      ),
+      headers: {
+        Link: '<http://localhost/api/0/organizations/org-slug/workflows/?cursor=0:0:1>; rel="previous"; results="false"; cursor="0:0:1", <http://localhost/api/0/organizations/org-slug/workflows/?cursor=0:1:0>; rel="next"; results="true"; cursor="0:1:0"',
+        'X-Hits': '1000',
+        'X-Max-Hits': '1000',
+      },
+    });
+
+    render(<AutomationsList />, {organization});
+
+    expect(await screen.findByTestId('pagination')).toHaveTextContent('1-20 of 1000+');
+  });
+
+  it('falls back to the default hit ceiling when X-Max-Hits is missing', async () => {
+    MockApiClient.addMockResponse({
+      url: '/organizations/org-slug/workflows/',
+      body: Array.from({length: 20}, (_, index) =>
+        AutomationFixture({id: `${index}`, name: `Automation ${index}`, detectorIds: []})
+      ),
+      headers: {
+        Link: '<http://localhost/api/0/organizations/org-slug/workflows/?cursor=0:0:1>; rel="previous"; results="false"; cursor="0:0:1", <http://localhost/api/0/organizations/org-slug/workflows/?cursor=0:1:0>; rel="next"; results="true"; cursor="0:1:0"',
+        'X-Hits': '1000',
+      },
+    });
+
+    render(<AutomationsList />, {organization});
+
+    expect(await screen.findByTestId('pagination')).toHaveTextContent('1-20 of 1000+');
+  });
+
+  it('treats totals as capped when the page starts past X-Hits', async () => {
+    MockApiClient.addMockResponse({
+      url: '/organizations/org-slug/workflows/',
+      body: Array.from({length: 20}, (_, index) =>
+        AutomationFixture({id: `${index}`, name: `Automation ${index}`, detectorIds: []})
+      ),
+      headers: {
+        Link: '<http://localhost/api/0/organizations/org-slug/workflows/?cursor=0:50:1>; rel="previous"; results="true"; cursor="0:50:1", <http://localhost/api/0/organizations/org-slug/workflows/?cursor=0:52:0>; rel="next"; results="true"; cursor="0:52:0"',
+        'X-Hits': '1000',
+      },
+    });
+
+    render(<AutomationsList />, {
+      organization,
+      initialRouterConfig: {
+        location: {
+          pathname: '/organizations/org-slug/monitors/alerts/',
+          query: {cursor: '0:51:0'},
+        },
+      },
+    });
+
+    expect(await screen.findByTestId('pagination')).toHaveTextContent(
+      '1,021-1,040 of 1000+'
+    );
+  });
+
   it('displays connected detectors and projects via a single batch request', async () => {
     const project2 = ProjectFixture({id: '2', slug: 'project-2'});
     const detector2 = MetricDetectorFixture({
diff --git a/static/app/views/automations/list.tsx b/static/app/views/automations/list.tsx
index a870bf702978..ba1de3c5528c 100644
--- a/static/app/views/automations/list.tsx
+++ b/static/app/views/automations/list.tsx
@@ -3,15 +3,17 @@ import {useQuery} from '@tanstack/react-query';
 
 import {LinkButton} from '@sentry/scraps/button';
 import {Flex} from '@sentry/scraps/layout';
-import {getPaginationCaption, Pagination} from '@sentry/scraps/pagination';
+import {Pagination} from '@sentry/scraps/pagination';
 
 import {ProjectPageFilter} from 'sentry/components/pageFilters/project/projectPageFilter';
+import {QueryCount} from 'sentry/components/queryCount';
 import {SentryDocumentTitle} from 'sentry/components/sentryDocumentTitle';
 import {AlertsMonitorsShowcaseButton} from 'sentry/components/workflowEngine/alertsMonitorsShowcaseButton';
 import {WorkflowEngineListLayout as ListLayout} from 'sentry/components/workflowEngine/layout/list';
 import {IconAdd} from 'sentry/icons';
-import {t} from 'sentry/locale';
+import {t, tct} from 'sentry/locale';
 import {selectJsonWithHeaders} from 'sentry/utils/api/apiOptions';
+import {parseCursor} from 'sentry/utils/cursor';
 import {parseLinkHeader} from 'sentry/utils/parseLinkHeader';
 import {VisuallyCompleteWithData} from 'sentry/utils/performanceForSentry';
 import {useLocation} from 'sentry/utils/useLocation';
@@ -41,8 +43,9 @@ export default function AutomationsList() {
 
   const automations = data?.json;
   const hits = data?.headers['X-Hits'] ?? 0;
-  // If maxHits is not set, we assume there is no max
-  const maxHits = data?.headers['X-Max-Hits'] ?? Infinity;
+  // OffsetPaginator currently omits X-Max-Hits. Fall back to the server's default
+  // hit ceiling so early pages can still render lower-bound totals like "1000+".
+  const maxHits = data?.headers['X-Max-Hits'] ?? 1000;
   const pageLinks = data?.headers.Link;
 
   const allResultsVisible = useCallback(() => {
@@ -53,15 +56,24 @@ export default function AutomationsList() {
     return links && !links.previous!.results && !links.next!.results;
   }, [pageLinks]);
 
-  const paginationCaption =
-    isLoading || !automations
-      ? undefined
-      : getPaginationCaption({
-          cursor,
-          limit: AUTOMATION_LIST_PAGE_LIMIT,
-          pageLength: automations.length,
-          total: hits,
-        });
+  const offset = parseCursor(cursor)?.offset ?? 0;
+  const pageStart = offset * AUTOMATION_LIST_PAGE_LIMIT + 1;
+  // Also treat deep pages past the reported hit count as capped, in case the
+  // response omits both a useful max and a stable ceiling.
+  const isCappedTotal = hits >= maxHits || pageStart > hits;
+  const cappedTotal = isCappedTotal ? maxHits : undefined;
+  const queryCount = isCappedTotal ? `${cappedTotal}+` : `${hits}`;
+
+  let paginationCaption: React.ReactNode;
+  if (!isLoading && automations && automations.length > 0) {
+    const end = pageStart + automations.length - 1;
+
+    paginationCaption = tct('[start]-[end] of [total]', {
+      start: pageStart.toLocaleString(),
+      end: end.toLocaleString(),
+      total: <QueryCount count={hits} max={cappedTotal} hideIfEmpty={false} hideParens />,
+    });
+  }
 
   return (
     <SentryDocumentTitle title={t('Alerts')}>
@@ -86,7 +98,7 @@ export default function AutomationsList() {
               isError={isError}
               isSuccess={isSuccess}
               sort={sort}
-              queryCount={hits > maxHits ? `${maxHits}+` : `${hits}`}
+              queryCount={queryCount}
               allResultsVisible={allResultsVisible()}
             />
           </VisuallyCompleteWithData>