diff --git a/frontend/src/styles/plans.css b/frontend/src/styles/plans.css
index ef13b5167..fad593245 100644
--- a/frontend/src/styles/plans.css
+++ b/frontend/src/styles/plans.css
@@ -94,6 +94,10 @@
     display: flex;
     justify-content: space-between;
     align-items: center;
+    /* space-between alone leaves zero separation once the three blocks fill
+       the row, which put the action buttons flush against the savings figure
+       (issue #1776). */
+    gap: var(--cudly-sp-4);
     background: var(--cudly-surface);
     padding: var(--cudly-sp-4) var(--cudly-sp-5);
     border-radius: var(--cudly-r-md);
@@ -143,6 +147,16 @@
 
 .upcoming-savings {
     text-align: right;
+    /* Keep the figure and its label at natural width so a long plan name
+       squeezes the info block instead of wrapping the label into the
+       buttons. */
+    flex-shrink: 0;
+}
+
+/* The block had no rule at all, so its buttons rendered edge to edge. */
+.upcoming-actions {
+    display: flex;
+    gap: var(--cudly-sp-2);
 }
 
 .upcoming-savings .amount {
diff --git a/frontend/tests-e2e/upcoming-purchases-layout.spec.ts b/frontend/tests-e2e/upcoming-purchases-layout.spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..22cb3f82e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/tests-e2e/upcoming-purchases-layout.spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,252 @@
+/**
+ * Layout smoke for the Home -> "Upcoming Scheduled Purchases" card (issue #1776).
+ *
+ * The reported failure is "the View Details / Cancel buttons render on top of
+ * the '$0 Est. monthly savings' text". `.upcoming-card` is a flex row laid out
+ * with `justify-content: space-between` and no `gap`, and `.upcoming-actions`
+ * had no CSS rule at all. Once a realistic plan name fills the row the
+ * space-between free space reaches zero, so the savings text ends up pixel-
+ * adjacent to the button block, its label wraps, and the buttons stack.
+ *
+ * jsdom does not resolve stylesheets into layout, so the jest suite cannot see
+ * this: it asserts on DOM structure and stays green while the user sees a
+ * collision. The assertions below run against the real bundle in Chromium and
+ * measure bounding boxes -- what the browser actually paints.
+ *
+ * Every card is measured in a single `evaluate` so all boxes come from one
+ * layout pass; reading them one locator at a time lets an unrelated async
+ * reflow (the Home charts settling after a viewport change) shift the numbers
+ * mid-assertion.
+ */
+
+import { test, expect, type Page } from '@playwright/test';
+import { mockApi, seedAuth } from './fixtures/recs';
+
+/**
+ * Minimum breathing room, in CSS px, between two adjacent blocks in the card.
+ * Deliberately above zero: the defect this spec pins produced exactly 0px, and
+ * text flush against a solid-background button reads as an overlap.
+ */
+const MIN_GAP = 8;
+
+/** The width at which `.upcoming-card` switches from a flex row to a column. */
+const COLUMN_BREAKPOINT = 768;
+
+/**
+ * Rows spanning the boundaries where the card's layout breaks: a long plan
+ * name (squeezes the row hardest), an absent-savings "$0" figure (the exact
+ * value in the bug report), the widest realistic currency string, and a short
+ * row for the unsqueezed baseline.
+ */
+const UPCOMING = [
+  {
+    execution_id: 'exec-long',
+    plan_id: 'plan-1',
+    plan_name: 'Production EC2 Compute Savings Plan ramp - phase two rollout',
+    scheduled_date: '2026-09-01T00:00:00Z',
+    provider: 'aws',
+    service: 'elasticache',
+    step_number: 12,
+    total_steps: 24,
+    estimated_savings: 0,
+    created_by_user_id: 'user-smoke',
+  },
+  {
+    execution_id: 'exec-big',
+    plan_id: 'plan-2',
+    plan_name: 'Enterprise commitment',
+    scheduled_date: '2026-09-15T00:00:00Z',
+    provider: 'azure',
+    service: 'compute',
+    step_number: 2,
+    total_steps: 2,
+    estimated_savings: 1234567.89,
+    created_by_user_id: 'user-smoke',
+  },
+  {
+    execution_id: 'exec-short',
+    plan_id: 'plan-3',
+    plan_name: 'Short',
+    scheduled_date: '2026-10-01T00:00:00Z',
+    provider: 'gcp',
+    service: 'gce',
+    step_number: 1,
+    total_steps: 1,
+    estimated_savings: 42,
+    created_by_user_id: 'user-smoke',
+  },
+];
+
+const SUMMARY = {
+  potential_monthly_savings: 100,
+  total_recommendations: 3,
+  active_commitments: 1,
+  committed_monthly: 10,
+  current_coverage: 50,
+  target_coverage: 80,
+  ytd_savings: 5,
+  by_service: {},
+};
+
+/**
+ * Widths to assert at. 1600/1280 are desktop, 1024-780 is the band where the
+ * row fills up and the collision appeared, 768 is the column breakpoint, and
+ * 480/360/320 are the mobile sizes the repo already carries findings for.
+ */
+const WIDTHS = [1600, 1280, 1024, 900, 800, 780, 768, 640, 480, 360, 320];
+
+interface Box {
+  left: number;
+  right: number;
+  top: number;
+  bottom: number;
+}
+
+interface CardBoxes {
+  card: Box;
+  savings: Box;
+  actions: Box;
+  /** One entry per action button, in DOM order. */
+  buttons: Box[];
+  /** Number of rendered text lines in the "Est. monthly savings" label. */
+  labelLines: number;
+  /** Horizontal overflow of the card's own content box. */
+  cardOverflow: number;
+}
+
+/** Overlapping area of two boxes, in px^2. Zero when they merely touch. */
+function overlapArea(a: Box, b: Box): number {
+  const x = Math.max(0, Math.min(a.right, b.right) - Math.max(a.left, b.left));
+  const y = Math.max(0, Math.min(a.bottom, b.bottom) - Math.max(a.top, b.top));
+  return x * y;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Resize, let any pending reflow settle, then read every box of every card in
+ * one pass.
+ */
+async function measureAt(page: Page, width: number): Promise<CardBoxes[]> {
+  await page.setViewportSize({ width, height: 1000 });
+  // Two rAFs: the first lands after the resize-driven style recalc, the second
+  // after any layout it scheduled (Chart.js resizes on the same tick).
+  await page.evaluate(
+    () => new Promise<void>((r) => requestAnimationFrame(() => requestAnimationFrame(() => r()))),
+  );
+
+  return page.locator('.upcoming-card').evaluateAll((cards) => {
+    const box = (el: Element) => {
+      const r = el.getBoundingClientRect();
+      return { left: r.left, right: r.right, top: r.top, bottom: r.bottom };
+    };
+    return cards.map((c) => ({
+      card: box(c),
+      savings: box(c.querySelector('.upcoming-savings')!),
+      actions: box(c.querySelector('.upcoming-actions')!),
+      buttons: Array.from(c.querySelectorAll('.upcoming-actions button')).map(box),
+      // A Range over the text, not the element: `.label` is a block box, so
+      // Element.getClientRects() returns a single rect however many lines the
+      // text wraps to, which would make the assertion vacuous.
+      labelLines: (() => {
+        const range = document.createRange();
+        range.selectNodeContents(c.querySelector('.upcoming-savings .label')!);
+        return range.getClientRects().length;
+      })(),
+      cardOverflow: c.scrollWidth - c.clientWidth,
+    }));
+  });
+}
+
+async function openHome(page: Page): Promise<void> {
+  await seedAuth(page);
+  await mockApi(page);
+
+  await page.route('**/api/dashboard/upcoming', (route) =>
+    route.fulfill({
+      status: 200,
+      contentType: 'application/json',
+      body: JSON.stringify({ purchases: UPCOMING }),
+    }),
+  );
+  await page.route('**/api/dashboard/summary**', (route) =>
+    route.fulfill({ status: 200, contentType: 'application/json', body: JSON.stringify(SUMMARY) }),
+  );
+  await page.goto('/home');
+  await expect(page.locator('.upcoming-card')).toHaveCount(UPCOMING.length);
+}
+
+test('every fixture row renders both action buttons', async ({ page }) => {
+  await openHome(page);
+  const cards = await measureAt(page, 1280);
+  // Without this, a regression that dropped the Cancel buttons -- the fixture
+  // session is an admin, so the issue-#950 gate shows them on every row --
+  // would let the button-spacing assertions below pass vacuously.
+  expect(cards.map((c) => c.buttons.length)).toEqual([2, 2, 2]);
+});
+
+test('the action buttons never overlap or touch the savings figure', async ({ page }) => {
+  await openHome(page);
+
+  for (const width of WIDTHS) {
+    const cards = await measureAt(page, width);
+
+    for (const [index, purchase] of UPCOMING.entries()) {
+      const { savings, actions } = cards[index]!;
+      const where = `${purchase.plan_name} @ ${width}px`;
+
+      // The reported defect: the buttons paint over the savings text.
+      expect(overlapArea(savings, actions), `${where}: savings/actions overlap`).toBe(0);
+
+      // Above the breakpoint the card is a flex row, so the blocks are
+      // separated horizontally; at or below it the card is a column and the
+      // separation is vertical.
+      const separation =
+        width > COLUMN_BREAKPOINT ? actions.left - savings.right : actions.top - savings.bottom;
+      expect(separation, `${where}: savings/actions separation`).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(MIN_GAP);
+    }
+  }
+});
+
+test('the action buttons stay on one row, spaced apart from each other', async ({ page }) => {
+  await openHome(page);
+
+  for (const width of WIDTHS) {
+    const cards = await measureAt(page, width);
+
+    for (const [index, purchase] of UPCOMING.entries()) {
+      const { buttons } = cards[index]!;
+      if (buttons.length < 2) continue;
+
+      const [first, second] = buttons as [Box, Box];
+      const where = `${purchase.plan_name} @ ${width}px`;
+
+      // Buttons that wrap onto a second line are what pushed the action block
+      // into the savings text in the first place.
+      expect(second.top, `${where}: buttons share a row`).toBeCloseTo(first.top, 0);
+      expect(second.left - first.right, `${where}: gap between buttons`).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(
+        MIN_GAP,
+      );
+    }
+  }
+});
+
+test('the savings label keeps one line without overflowing the card', async ({ page }) => {
+  await openHome(page);
+
+  for (const width of WIDTHS) {
+    const cards = await measureAt(page, width);
+
+    for (const [index, purchase] of UPCOMING.entries()) {
+      const { card, actions, labelLines, cardOverflow } = cards[index]!;
+      const where = `${purchase.plan_name} @ ${width}px`;
+
+      // A wrapped "Est. monthly / savings" is the squeeze that preceded the
+      // collision; one line means the block kept its natural width.
+      expect(labelLines, `${where}: savings label line count`).toBe(1);
+
+      // Giving savings and actions their own space must not push the content
+      // past the card's edge or open a horizontal scrollbar.
+      expect(actions.right, `${where}: actions within card`).toBeLessThanOrEqual(card.right + 1);
+      expect(cardOverflow, `${where}: card horizontal overflow`).toBeLessThanOrEqual(0);
+    }
+  }
+});