diff --git a/apps/app/src/components/settings/UpdatesSettingsSection.tsx b/apps/app/src/components/settings/UpdatesSettingsSection.tsx
index 59973a2183..cacfbf3f35 100644
--- a/apps/app/src/components/settings/UpdatesSettingsSection.tsx
+++ b/apps/app/src/components/settings/UpdatesSettingsSection.tsx
@@ -223,6 +223,15 @@ export function UpdateActionButton({
 const ROW_GRID =
   "grid min-w-0 grid-cols-[1.5rem_minmax(0,1fr)_auto] items-center gap-3";
 
+/**
+ * Vertical rhythm for every row in a machine card. `SettingsSection` already
+ * pads the card (`py-3.5`), so the first and last rows drop their own outer
+ * padding the way `SettingsRow` does; without the reset a card's own padding
+ * and the row's stacked to 22px at each end, while `UpdatesRow` — which had
+ * the reset — sat at 14px, and the bb row's card came out lopsided.
+ */
+const ROW_SPACING = "py-2 first:pt-0 last:pb-0";
+
 /**
  * A row with no destination — bb itself, which has no page of its own to open.
  * It borrows `ResourceRow`'s grid rather than its behaviour so its mark, name
@@ -240,7 +249,7 @@ function UpdatesRow({
 }) {
   return (
     <div
-      className={cn(ROW_GRID, "py-2.5 text-sm first:pt-0 last:pb-0", className)}
+      className={cn(ROW_GRID, ROW_SPACING, "text-sm", className)}
     >
       <span className="flex size-6 shrink-0 items-center justify-center">
         {leading}
@@ -1095,7 +1104,7 @@ export function BbDaemonUpdateRow({
 
   return (
     <ResourceRow
-      className="py-2"
+      className={ROW_SPACING}
       actionsVisibility="always"
       openLabel={`Open ${host.name} settings`}
       onOpen={() => onOpenMachine(host.id)}
@@ -1147,7 +1156,7 @@ export function ProviderCliCheckRow({
   const { host } = machine;
   return (
     <ResourceRow
-      className="py-2"
+      className={ROW_SPACING}
       actionsVisibility="always"
       openLabel={`Open ${host.name} settings`}
       onOpen={() => onOpenMachine(host.id)}
@@ -1252,7 +1261,7 @@ export function MachineUpdatesRows({
     return (
       <ResourceRow
         key={provider}
-        className="py-2"
+        className={ROW_SPACING}
         actionsVisibility="always"
         openLabel={`Open ${status.displayName} settings`}
         onOpen={() => onOpenProvider(providerId)}