diff --git a/src/CONST/index.ts b/src/CONST/index.ts
index 67f6ad2c0904..d4bcb7a64048 100644
--- a/src/CONST/index.ts
+++ b/src/CONST/index.ts
@@ -2677,6 +2677,8 @@ const CONST = {
         UTILITIES: 'Utilities',
     },
     JSON_CODE: {
+        // Client-side placeholder, never sent by the server: the request failed without a usable response code
+        NO_RESPONSE: 0,
         SUCCESS: 200,
         BAD_REQUEST: 400,
         INVALID_SEARCH_QUERY: 401,
@@ -7260,6 +7262,11 @@ const CONST = {
             LOADING: 'loading',
             LOADED: 'loaded',
         },
+        FAILURE_KIND: {
+            STALE: 'stale',
+            INVALID_QUERY: 'invalidQuery',
+            FAILED: 'failed',
+        },
         ACTION_FILTERS: {
             SUBMIT: 'submit',
             APPROVE: 'approve',
diff --git a/src/components/Search/index.tsx b/src/components/Search/index.tsx
index 6fb1f7fae215..aea1479aff19 100644
--- a/src/components/Search/index.tsx
+++ b/src/components/Search/index.tsx
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ import getEmptyArray from '@src/types/utils/getEmptyArray';
 
 import type {NativeScrollEvent, NativeSyntheticEvent, StyleProp, ViewStyle} from 'react-native';
 import type {OnyxEntry} from 'react-native-onyx';
+import type {ValueOf} from 'type-fest';
 
 import {findFocusedRoute, useFocusEffect, useIsFocused, useNavigation} from '@react-navigation/native';
 import * as Sentry from '@sentry/react-native';
@@ -1108,43 +1109,58 @@ function Search({
     }
 
     if (hasErrors) {
-        const isInvalidQuery = responseStatusCode === CONST.JSON_CODE.INVALID_SEARCH_QUERY;
         cancelNavigationSpans();
+        const retrySearch = () => {
+            // A response replaces the snapshot's results rather than appending to them, so retrying at
+            // the paginated offset would leave only that later page behind. Retry from the first page.
+            setOffset(0);
+            handleSearch({
+                queryJSON,
+                searchKey: currentSearchKey,
+                offset: 0,
+                shouldCalculateTotals: shouldCalculateTotalsOnRetry,
+                prevReportsLength: filteredDataLength,
+                isLoading: !!searchResults?.search?.isLoading,
+            });
+        };
+        // failureData stores NO_RESPONSE when the request never got a server answer, so only the results' freshness is in
+        // doubt and the refresh copy fits. Any code the server did return marks a real failure and keeps the error copy,
+        // and an invalid query gets no button because re-sending it cannot succeed.
+        let failureKind: ValueOf<typeof CONST.SEARCH.FAILURE_KIND> = CONST.SEARCH.FAILURE_KIND.FAILED;
+        if (responseStatusCode === CONST.JSON_CODE.NO_RESPONSE) {
+            failureKind = CONST.SEARCH.FAILURE_KIND.STALE;
+        } else if (responseStatusCode === CONST.JSON_CODE.INVALID_SEARCH_QUERY) {
+            failureKind = CONST.SEARCH.FAILURE_KIND.INVALID_QUERY;
+        }
+        const errorTitle = translate('errorPage.title', {isBreakLine: shouldUseNarrowLayout});
+        const errorViewByKind = {
+            [CONST.SEARCH.FAILURE_KIND.STALE]: {
+                title: translate('search.searchResults.staleResults.title'),
+                subtitle: translate('search.searchResults.staleResults.subtitle'),
+                illustration: 'FolderSync',
+                illustrationWidth: variables.iconSizeUltraLarge,
+                illustrationHeight: variables.iconSizeUltraLarge,
+                buttonTranslationKey: 'search.searchResults.staleResults.buttonText',
+                onButtonPress: retrySearch,
+            },
+            [CONST.SEARCH.FAILURE_KIND.INVALID_QUERY]: {
+                title: errorTitle,
+                subtitle: translate('errorPage.wrongTypeSubtitle'),
+            },
+            [CONST.SEARCH.FAILURE_KIND.FAILED]: {
+                title: errorTitle,
+                subtitle: translate('errorPage.subtitle'),
+                buttonTranslationKey: 'common.tryAgain',
+                onButtonPress: retrySearch,
+            },
+        } as const;
         return (
             <View style={[shouldUseNarrowLayout ? styles.searchListContentContainerStyles(!!hasFilterBars) : styles.mt3, styles.flex1]}>
                 <FullPageErrorView
                     shouldShow
                     containerStyle={styles.searchBlockingErrorViewContainer}
                     subtitleStyle={styles.textSupporting}
-                    title={
-                        isInvalidQuery
-                            ? translate('errorPage.title', {
-                                  isBreakLine: shouldUseNarrowLayout,
-                              })
-                            : translate('search.searchResults.staleResults.title')
-                    }
-                    subtitle={translate(isInvalidQuery ? 'errorPage.wrongTypeSubtitle' : 'search.searchResults.staleResults.subtitle')}
-                    // A failed request leaves results that are out of date rather than broken, so that case gets the
-                    // refresh copy and illustration. An invalid query keeps the error copy, since it really did fail.
-                    {...(!isInvalidQuery && {
-                        illustration: 'FolderSync',
-                        illustrationWidth: variables.iconSizeUltraLarge,
-                        illustrationHeight: variables.iconSizeUltraLarge,
-                        buttonTranslationKey: 'search.searchResults.staleResults.buttonText',
-                        onButtonPress: () => {
-                            // A response replaces the snapshot's results rather than appending to them, so retrying at
-                            // the paginated offset would leave only that later page behind. Retry from the first page.
-                            setOffset(0);
-                            handleSearch({
-                                queryJSON,
-                                searchKey: currentSearchKey,
-                                offset: 0,
-                                shouldCalculateTotals: shouldCalculateTotalsOnRetry,
-                                prevReportsLength: filteredDataLength,
-                                isLoading: !!searchResults?.search?.isLoading,
-                            });
-                        },
-                    })}
+                    {...errorViewByKind[failureKind]}
                 />
             </View>
         );
diff --git a/src/libs/actions/Search.ts b/src/libs/actions/Search.ts
index 1a449bb597cd..d48d5a9e9196 100644
--- a/src/libs/actions/Search.ts
+++ b/src/libs/actions/Search.ts
@@ -852,10 +852,10 @@ function getOnyxLoadingData(
                 search: {
                     type,
                     ...(isSearchAPI && {isLoading: false}),
-                    // 0 stands for "failed with no usable response code", which covers a network-level rejection that
-                    // never reaches the server. A real HTTP failure overwrites it below once the response lands. Every
+                    // NO_RESPONSE stands for "failed with no usable response code", which covers a network-level rejection
+                    // that never reaches the server. A real HTTP failure overwrites it below once the response lands. Every
                     // write of `errors` carries a code this way, so the error view never has to guess.
-                    ...(isSearchRequest && {hash, responseJsonCode: 0}),
+                    ...(isSearchRequest && {hash, responseJsonCode: CONST.JSON_CODE.NO_RESPONSE}),
                 },
                 errors: getMicroSecondOnyxErrorWithTranslationKey('common.genericErrorMessage'),
             },
diff --git a/tests/ui/SearchPageTest.tsx b/tests/ui/SearchPageTest.tsx
index caa0a79917b7..e9aa509fc00b 100644
--- a/tests/ui/SearchPageTest.tsx
+++ b/tests/ui/SearchPageTest.tsx
@@ -352,6 +352,39 @@ describe('SearchPageNarrow', () => {
         expect(screen.queryByText('Try again')).toBeNull();
     });
 
+    it('shows the error page with a retry button when the server rejected the query with a code other than invalid query', async () => {
+        // Given the page already requested the query, so an error that lands afterwards is its own and is kept
+        renderPage();
+
+        await act(async () => {
+            jest.runAllTimers();
+        });
+
+        // When the server answers with a failure code that is not INVALID_SEARCH_QUERY
+        await setFailedSnapshot(CONST.JSON_CODE.EXP_ERROR);
+
+        // Then the request really failed, so the error copy shows rather than the stale-results copy
+        expect(screen.getByText('Oops... Something went wrong')).toBeTruthy();
+        expect(screen.getByText('Try again')).toBeTruthy();
+        expect(screen.queryByText('Refresh needed')).toBeNull();
+    });
+
+    it('shows the refresh copy when the request failed without a server response code', async () => {
+        renderPage();
+
+        await act(async () => {
+            jest.runAllTimers();
+        });
+
+        // When the request failed before the server could answer, which failureData records as NO_RESPONSE
+        await setFailedSnapshot(CONST.JSON_CODE.NO_RESPONSE);
+
+        // Then the results are only out of date, so the refresh copy shows
+        expect(screen.getByText('Refresh needed')).toBeTruthy();
+        expect(screen.getByText('Refresh')).toBeTruthy();
+        expect(screen.queryByText('Oops... Something went wrong')).toBeNull();
+    });
+
     it('renders the empty state when a response without data reached the terminal loaded state', async () => {
         await act(async () => {
             await Onyx.set(`${ONYXKEYS.COLLECTION.SNAPSHOT}${failedQueryJSON?.hash}`, {
diff --git a/tests/unit/Search/searchSnapshotStateTest.ts b/tests/unit/Search/searchSnapshotStateTest.ts
index fcd1f494274b..405c4ffcb9ef 100644
--- a/tests/unit/Search/searchSnapshotStateTest.ts
+++ b/tests/unit/Search/searchSnapshotStateTest.ts
@@ -197,6 +197,26 @@ describe('search snapshot terminal state', () => {
         expect(snapshot?.search?.responseJsonCode).toBe(CONST.JSON_CODE.INVALID_SEARCH_QUERY);
     });
 
+    it('persists a non-401 server failure code over the NO_RESPONSE placeholder written by failureData', async () => {
+        const queryJSON = getQueryJSON();
+        // failureData lands first and writes NO_RESPONSE. The real code must overwrite it, otherwise the error view
+        // would show the "stale results" copy for a request the server actually rejected.
+        jest.mocked(makeRequestWithSideEffects).mockImplementationOnce(async (_command, _parameters, onyxData) => {
+            await Onyx.update(onyxData?.optimisticData ?? []);
+            await Onyx.update(onyxData?.failureData ?? []);
+            await Onyx.update(onyxData?.finallyData ?? []);
+            return {jsonCode: CONST.JSON_CODE.EXP_ERROR};
+        });
+
+        await search({queryJSON, searchKey: CONST.SEARCH.SEARCH_KEYS.EXPENSES, offset: 0, isLoading: false});
+        await waitForBatchedUpdates();
+
+        const snapshot = await getOnyxValue(`${ONYXKEYS.COLLECTION.SNAPSHOT}${queryJSON.hash}` as const);
+        expect(snapshot?.errors).toBeDefined();
+        expect(snapshot?.search?.responseJsonCode).toBe(CONST.JSON_CODE.EXP_ERROR);
+        expect(snapshot?.search?.responseJsonCode).not.toBe(CONST.JSON_CODE.NO_RESPONSE);
+    });
+
     it('does not persist a jsonCode for a successful response', async () => {
         const queryJSON = getQueryJSON();
         jest.mocked(makeRequestWithSideEffects).mockResolvedValueOnce({jsonCode: CONST.JSON_CODE.SUCCESS});
@@ -257,7 +277,7 @@ describe('search snapshot terminal state', () => {
         expect(snapshot?.search?.state).toBe(CONST.SEARCH.SNAPSHOT_STATE.LOADED);
         expect(snapshot?.errors).toBeDefined();
         // There is no response to read a code from, but the errors still need one so the error view can
-        // classify them after a reload. 0 records "failed without a usable code" rather than leaving a gap.
-        expect(snapshot?.search?.responseJsonCode).toBe(0);
+        // classify them after a reload. NO_RESPONSE records "failed without a usable code" rather than leaving a gap.
+        expect(snapshot?.search?.responseJsonCode).toBe(CONST.JSON_CODE.NO_RESPONSE);
     });
 });