diff --git a/apps/web/src/lib/ai-gateway/handleRequestLogging.ts b/apps/web/src/lib/ai-gateway/handleRequestLogging.ts
index c12babb435..e1ee28d883 100644
--- a/apps/web/src/lib/ai-gateway/handleRequestLogging.ts
+++ b/apps/web/src/lib/ai-gateway/handleRequestLogging.ts
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import { createHash } from 'crypto';
 import { redisSet } from '@/lib/redis';
 import { requestLogRedisKey } from '@/lib/redis-keys';
 import { detectToolCallArgumentErrors } from '@/lib/ai-gateway/api-request-log-errors';
+import { stripNulBytesInPlace } from '@/lib/ai-gateway/strip-nul-bytes';
 
 const users = [
   '992891e9fe987b8960a05ed0bc9cc456979d1d71410d467f212e6233dbc0a523', // christiaan
@@ -54,7 +55,7 @@ export async function handleRequestLogging(params: {
           status_code: clonedResponse.status,
           model,
           provider,
-          request: request.body,
+          request: sanitizedRequestBody(request),
           response,
           error,
         })
@@ -92,3 +93,19 @@ export async function handleRequestLogging(params: {
     }
   });
 }
+
+function sanitizedRequestBody(request: GatewayRequest): GatewayRequest['body'] {
+  const dirtyFields: string[] = [];
+  stripNulBytesInPlace(request.body, dirtyFields);
+  if (dirtyFields.length > 0) {
+    logExceptInTest(
+      'api_request_log request string field contained NUL bytes; sanitized before insert',
+      {
+        source: 'handleRequestLogging',
+        fields: dirtyFields,
+        kind: request.kind,
+      }
+    );
+  }
+  return request.body;
+}
diff --git a/apps/web/src/lib/ai-gateway/processUsage.test.ts b/apps/web/src/lib/ai-gateway/processUsage.test.ts
index 9e91d8a83f..58db65a0fc 100644
--- a/apps/web/src/lib/ai-gateway/processUsage.test.ts
+++ b/apps/web/src/lib/ai-gateway/processUsage.test.ts
@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ import {
   mapToUsageStats,
   logMicrodollarUsage,
   processOpenRouterUsage,
-  stripNulBytesInPlace,
   toInsertableDbUsageRecord,
 } from './processUsage';
+import { stripNulBytesInPlace } from '@/lib/ai-gateway/strip-nul-bytes';
 import type { OpenRouterGeneration } from '@/lib/ai-gateway/providers/openrouter/types';
 import { verifyApproval } from '../../tests/helpers/approval.helper';
 import { insertTestUser } from '../../tests/helpers/user.helper';
diff --git a/apps/web/src/lib/ai-gateway/processUsage.ts b/apps/web/src/lib/ai-gateway/processUsage.ts
index 68787c08ef..dbb9acd586 100644
--- a/apps/web/src/lib/ai-gateway/processUsage.ts
+++ b/apps/web/src/lib/ai-gateway/processUsage.ts
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ import { computeOpenRouterCostFields, drainSseStream } from '@/lib/ai-gateway/pr
 import { isAnthropicModel } from '@/lib/ai-gateway/providers/anthropic';
 import { isMinimaxModel } from '@/lib/ai-gateway/providers/minimax';
 import type { KiloExclusiveModel } from '@/lib/ai-gateway/providers/kilo-exclusive-model';
+import { stripNulBytesInPlace } from '@/lib/ai-gateway/strip-nul-bytes';
 
 const posthogClient = PostHogClient();
 
@@ -128,36 +129,6 @@ export function extractUsageContextInfo(usageContext: MicrodollarUsageContext) {
   };
 }
 
-/**
- * Strip NUL bytes (\u0000) in place from every string-typed field on `obj`.
- *
- * Postgres `text` columns reject NUL bytes with `22021 invalid byte sequence
- * for encoding "UTF8": 0x00`, which crashes the `microdollar_usage` CTE insert
- * and leaves the request un-billed (see Sentry KILOCODE-WEB-1G3Z).
- *
- * NULs have been observed in client-populated fields on the LLM gateway hot
- * path: HTTP headers from the VS Code extension (machine_id, session_id,
- * http_user_agent) and prompt-derived fields (system_prompt_prefix,
- * user_prompt_prefix). Sanitizing at the DB boundary is a safety net; once
- * the upstream source is identified via the `console.warn` in
- * `toInsertableDbUsageRecord` (queryable in Axiom), sanitize at the source
- * and remove this.
- *
- * Any sanitized field names are appended to `dirtyFields` so the caller can
- * log them for source attribution.
- */
-export function stripNulBytesInPlace(obj: Record<string, unknown>, dirtyFields: string[]): void {
-  for (const key of Object.keys(obj)) {
-    const value = obj[key];
-    if (typeof value === 'string' && value.indexOf('\u0000') >= 0) {
-      // Using split/join rather than a regex avoids the no-control-regex
-      // lint rule; the NUL byte is the intended match here.
-      obj[key] = value.split('\u0000').join('');
-      dirtyFields.push(key);
-    }
-  }
-}
-
 export function toInsertableDbUsageRecord(
   usageStats: MicrodollarUsageStats,
   usageContextInfo: UsageContextInfo
diff --git a/apps/web/src/lib/ai-gateway/strip-nul-bytes.ts b/apps/web/src/lib/ai-gateway/strip-nul-bytes.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..467727a649
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/web/src/lib/ai-gateway/strip-nul-bytes.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+/**
+ * Strip NUL bytes (\u0000) in place from every string-typed field on `value`.
+ *
+ * Postgres `text` columns reject NUL bytes with `22021 invalid byte sequence
+ * for encoding "UTF8": 0x00`, which crashes inserts into affected tables.
+ *
+ * Any sanitized field paths are appended to `dirtyFields` so the caller can
+ * log them for source attribution.
+ */
+export function stripNulBytesInPlace(value: object, dirtyFields: string[]): void {
+  stripNulBytesFromValue(value, dirtyFields, '');
+}
+
+function stripNulBytesFromValue(value: unknown, dirtyFields: string[], path: string): void {
+  if (Array.isArray(value)) {
+    value.forEach((item, index) => {
+      stripNulBytesFromValue(item, dirtyFields, `${path}[${index}]`);
+    });
+    return;
+  }
+
+  if (!isPlainObject(value)) {
+    return;
+  }
+
+  for (const [key, item] of Object.entries(value)) {
+    const itemPath = path ? `${path}.${key}` : key;
+    if (typeof item === 'string' && item.indexOf('\u0000') >= 0) {
+      value[key] = item.split('\u0000').join('');
+      dirtyFields.push(itemPath);
+      continue;
+    }
+
+    stripNulBytesFromValue(item, dirtyFields, itemPath);
+  }
+}
+
+function isPlainObject(value: unknown): value is Record<string, unknown> {
+  return (
+    typeof value === 'object' && value !== null && Object.getPrototypeOf(value) === Object.prototype
+  );
+}