diff --git a/pkg/models/project_test.go b/pkg/models/project_test.go
index d1e975b3a..0c30bdb6e 100644
--- a/pkg/models/project_test.go
+++ b/pkg/models/project_test.go
@@ -533,9 +533,9 @@ func TestProject_ReadAll(t *testing.T) {
 		ls := projects3.([]*Project)
 
 		if db.ParadeDBAvailable() {
-			// ParadeDB fuzzy prefix matching returns more results
-			// (e.g. "TEST10" also matches "test1", "test11", etc.)
-			require.NotEmpty(t, ls)
+			// ParadeDB fuzzy(1, prefix=true) on "TEST10" also matches
+			// "test1", "test11", "test19", "test30" (edit distance 1), etc.
+			require.Len(t, ls, 6)
 			projectIDs := make([]int64, len(ls))
 			for i, p := range ls {
 				projectIDs[i] = p.ID
diff --git a/pkg/models/task_collection_test.go b/pkg/models/task_collection_test.go
index 4dcf28f81..a455b2065 100644
--- a/pkg/models/task_collection_test.go
+++ b/pkg/models/task_collection_test.go
@@ -1783,8 +1783,8 @@ func TestTaskCollection_ReadAll(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 
 	if db.ParadeDBAvailable() {
-		// ParadeDB fuzzy prefix matching returns more results than ILIKE,
-		// so we only check that expected tasks are contained in results.
+		// ParadeDB fuzzy(1, prefix=true) on "17" also matches tokens within
+		// edit distance 1 ("1", "7", "10"-"19", "27", "47"), returning more results.
 		t.Run("search for task index", func(t *testing.T) {
 			db.LoadAndAssertFixtures(t)
 			s := db.NewSession()
@@ -1794,6 +1794,7 @@ func TestTaskCollection_ReadAll(t *testing.T) {
 			got, _, _, err := lt.ReadAll(s, &user.User{ID: 1}, "number #17", 0, 50)
 			require.NoError(t, err)
 			gotTasks := got.([]*Task)
+			require.Len(t, gotTasks, 14)
 			gotIDs := make([]int64, len(gotTasks))
 			for i, tsk := range gotTasks {
 				gotIDs[i] = tsk.ID
diff --git a/pkg/webtests/project_test.go b/pkg/webtests/project_test.go
index f6bafdf35..0c87f211e 100644
--- a/pkg/webtests/project_test.go
+++ b/pkg/webtests/project_test.go
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 package webtests
 
 import (
+	"encoding/json"
 	"net/url"
 	"testing"
 
@@ -51,9 +52,16 @@ func TestProject(t *testing.T) {
 			rec, err := testHandler.testReadAllWithUser(url.Values{"s": []string{"Test1"}}, nil)
 			require.NoError(t, err)
 			assert.Contains(t, rec.Body.String(), `Test1`)
-			if !db.ParadeDBAvailable() {
-				// ParadeDB fuzzy(1, prefix=true) matches Test2, Test3, etc.
-				// (edit distance 1 from "Test1"), so only check exclusions without ParadeDB.
+
+			var projects []models.Project
+			require.NoError(t, json.Unmarshal(rec.Body.Bytes(), &projects))
+
+			if db.ParadeDBAvailable() {
+				// ParadeDB fuzzy(1, prefix=true) on "Test1" also matches
+				// Test2-Test9 (edit distance 1), Test10+ (prefix), etc.
+				require.Len(t, projects, 12)
+			} else {
+				require.Len(t, projects, 2)
 				assert.NotContains(t, rec.Body.String(), `Test2`)
 				assert.NotContains(t, rec.Body.String(), `Test3`)
 				assert.NotContains(t, rec.Body.String(), `Test4`)