diff --git a/src/wp-content/themes/tuleva/helpers/extras.php b/src/wp-content/themes/tuleva/helpers/extras.php
index d4738a7d..1a940262 100644
--- a/src/wp-content/themes/tuleva/helpers/extras.php
+++ b/src/wp-content/themes/tuleva/helpers/extras.php
@@ -314,21 +314,73 @@ function get_app_url($path)
 }
 
 /*
- * Get Tuleva member count
+ * Get the number of people saving in Tuleva index funds.
+ *
+ * Source: onboarding-service, backed by the same analytics.mv_kpi_new figure as the
+ * Metabase "kogujate arv". That view only moves once a month, so the value is cached
+ * for a day: the count changes about monthly, and we are never more than a day behind
+ * when it does.
+ *
+ * The last count the API returned successfully is also kept in an option. A failed
+ * refresh then keeps showing yesterday's real number instead of dropping back to the
+ * hand-entered members_count ACF field, which can be months out of date.
+ *
+ * Returns 0 only when there is nothing better to show, so callers can fall back to
+ * the ACF field.
  */
-function get_member_count()
+function get_investor_count()
 {
-    stream_context_set_default(
-        array(
-            'http' => array(
-                'method' => 'HEAD'
-            )
-        )
+    // Same guard as the fund templates: never call the production API from local dev.
+    if (isset($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']) && $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] === 'localhost') {
+        return 0;
+    }
+
+    $cached = get_transient('tuleva_investor_count');
+    if ($cached !== false) {
+        $cached = (int) $cached;
+
+        // A cached 0 is the failure sentinel, not a real count.
+        return $cached > 0 ? $cached : get_last_good_investor_count();
+    }
+
+    $context = stream_context_create(
+        [
+            'http' => [
+                'method' => 'GET',
+                'timeout' => 1,
+            ]
+        ]
     );
-    $headers = get_headers('https://onboarding-service.tuleva.ee/v1/members', 1);
-    $memberCount = empty($headers['X-Total-Count']) ? 0 : $headers['X-Total-Count'];
+    $json = @file_get_contents(
+        'https://onboarding-service.tuleva.ee/v1/statistics/investor-count',
+        false,
+        $context
+    );
+    $data = json_decode($json, true);
+    // is_numeric, so that a malformed "70000abc" is rejected rather than cast to 70000.
+    $count = isset($data['count']) && is_numeric($data['count']) ? (int) $data['count'] : 0;
+
+    // Mirrors the sanity bounds the endpoint already applies in SQL.
+    if ($count < 50000 || $count > 500000) {
+        // Unreachable, malformed or implausible. Cache the failure briefly so an
+        // outage costs one slow request per five minutes, not one per visitor.
+        set_transient('tuleva_investor_count', 0, 5 * MINUTE_IN_SECONDS);
+
+        return get_last_good_investor_count();
+    }
+
+    set_transient('tuleva_investor_count', $count, DAY_IN_SECONDS);
+    update_option('tuleva_investor_count_last_good', $count, false);
 
-    return $memberCount;
+    return $count;
+}
+
+/*
+ * The last count the API returned successfully, or 0 if it has never answered.
+ */
+function get_last_good_investor_count()
+{
+    return (int) get_option('tuleva_investor_count_last_good', 0);
 }
 
 function print_funds_js()
diff --git a/src/wp-content/themes/tuleva/templates/components/credentials.php b/src/wp-content/themes/tuleva/templates/components/credentials.php
index cf41874a..22630c66 100644
--- a/src/wp-content/themes/tuleva/templates/components/credentials.php
+++ b/src/wp-content/themes/tuleva/templates/components/credentials.php
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?php
-$members_count = get_field('members_count', 'option');
+$members_count = get_investor_count() ?: get_field('members_count', 'option');
 $members_count_description = get_sub_field('members_count_description');
 $security_text = get_sub_field('security_text');
 $security_link_text = get_sub_field('security_link_text');