diff --git a/control-plane/src/neon-database-driver.ts b/control-plane/src/neon-database-driver.ts
index 83bdd54f93..578614d691 100644
--- a/control-plane/src/neon-database-driver.ts
+++ b/control-plane/src/neon-database-driver.ts
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 // Endpoint paths/response shapes below follow Neon's public v2 API (https://api-docs.neon.tech/reference) as
 // documented at the time this was written -- verify against a live account before the first real deploy (the
 // test suite mocks every call; no live Neon credentials are used anywhere in this repo).
+import { createHash } from "node:crypto";
 import type { DatabaseConnectionDetails, TenantProvisioningRequest } from "./tenant-provisioning-driver.js";
 
 const DEFAULT_API_BASE_URL = "https://console.neon.tech/api/v2";
@@ -49,12 +50,27 @@ type NeonEndpoint = { host: string };
 
 type NeonRole = { name: string; password?: string };
 
+// #8026: the unconditional .slice(0, 63) below used to have no collision guard -- two distinct tenant names
+// sharing the same first ~54 characters (after the "tenant-<product>-" prefix and sanitization) would
+// truncate to the IDENTICAL Neon branch name. findBranchByName would then find the OTHER tenant's already-
+// existing branch and hand back its connection/role/password to the new tenant -- a cross-tenant data-
+// isolation bug. Only names that actually need truncating get the suffix, so a short tenant name's branch
+// name is completely unchanged (this repo has never deployed against a live Neon project yet -- see this
+// file's own header comment -- so there is no pre-existing long-name branch a suffix could orphan).
+const NEON_BRANCH_NAME_MAX_LENGTH = 63;
+const NEON_BRANCH_NAME_COLLISION_SUFFIX_LENGTH = 8;
+
 /** Neon branch names are case-sensitive but this keeps them predictable and collision-free across products
- *  sharing a tenant name, and safely truncated well under Neon's own length limit. */
+ *  sharing a tenant name, and safely truncated well under Neon's own length limit. A name that would
+ *  otherwise be truncated gets a short hash-of-the-untruncated-name suffix instead, so two long,
+ *  prefix-similar tenant names can never collide on the same truncated branch name (#8026). */
 function branchNameFor(request: TenantProvisioningRequest): string {
   const raw = `tenant-${request.product}-${request.tenant.name}`.toLowerCase();
   const sanitized = raw.replaceAll(/[^a-z0-9_-]+/g, "-").replaceAll(/-{2,}/g, "-").replace(/^-+|-+$/g, "");
-  return sanitized.slice(0, 63);
+  if (sanitized.length <= NEON_BRANCH_NAME_MAX_LENGTH) return sanitized;
+  const suffix = createHash("sha256").update(sanitized).digest("hex").slice(0, NEON_BRANCH_NAME_COLLISION_SUFFIX_LENGTH);
+  const prefixLength = NEON_BRANCH_NAME_MAX_LENGTH - 1 - suffix.length;
+  return `${sanitized.slice(0, prefixLength)}-${suffix}`;
 }
 
 /** A tenant-scoped role gets the SAME derived name as its branch -- one branch, one role, one database, no
diff --git a/control-plane/test/neon-database-driver.test.ts b/control-plane/test/neon-database-driver.test.ts
index eafcfac25e..08baeb3544 100644
--- a/control-plane/test/neon-database-driver.test.ts
+++ b/control-plane/test/neon-database-driver.test.ts
@@ -236,3 +236,51 @@ test("createNeonDatabaseDriver: bundles provision/drop closed over one config",
   // somewhere else -- the request above only succeeds against the real Neon endpoint shape if `dropDatabase`
   // routed through the same config-scoped fetch helper `dropNeonDatabase` itself uses.
 });
+
+// #8026: two tenant names sharing a long common prefix (both past Neon's 63-char branch-name limit once the
+// "tenant-<product>-" prefix is added) used to sanitize+truncate to the IDENTICAL branch name -- provisioning
+// the second tenant would find the FIRST tenant's already-existing branch and hand back its connection/role/
+// password. Regression-guards branchNameFor's collision-resistant suffix by reading the actual branch name
+// each provision call sends in its create-branch POST body.
+test("provisionNeonDatabase: two long, prefix-similar tenant names produce DIFFERENT branch names (#8026)", async () => {
+  const longPrefix = "a".repeat(60);
+  const requestA: TenantProvisioningRequest = { tenant: { name: `${longPrefix}-org-alpha` }, product: "orb" };
+  const requestB: TenantProvisioningRequest = { tenant: { name: `${longPrefix}-org-beta` }, product: "orb" };
+
+  const { calls: callsA } = mockFetchSequence([
+    { body: { branches: [] } },
+    { body: { branch: { id: "br-a", name: "placeholder" }, endpoints: [{ host: "ep-a.neon.tech" }], operations: [] } },
+    { body: { role: { name: "placeholder", password: "pw-a" }, operations: [] } },
+    { body: { operations: [] } },
+  ]);
+  await provisionNeonDatabase(CONFIG, requestA);
+  const branchNameA = (bodyOf(callsA[1]!.init) as { branch: { name: string } }).branch.name;
+
+  const { calls: callsB } = mockFetchSequence([
+    { body: { branches: [] } },
+    { body: { branch: { id: "br-b", name: "placeholder" }, endpoints: [{ host: "ep-b.neon.tech" }], operations: [] } },
+    { body: { role: { name: "placeholder", password: "pw-b" }, operations: [] } },
+    { body: { operations: [] } },
+  ]);
+  await provisionNeonDatabase(CONFIG, requestB);
+  const branchNameB = (bodyOf(callsB[1]!.init) as { branch: { name: string } }).branch.name;
+
+  // Both names are long enough that a naive unconditional .slice(0, 63) collapses them to the same 63
+  // characters of "a"s well before either "-org-alpha"/"-org-beta" suffix is ever reached.
+  assert.notEqual(branchNameA, branchNameB);
+  assert.ok(branchNameA.length <= 63);
+  assert.ok(branchNameB.length <= 63);
+});
+
+test("provisionNeonDatabase: a short tenant name's branch name is completely unaffected by the collision-suffix logic", async () => {
+  const { calls } = mockFetchSequence([
+    { body: { branches: [] } },
+    { body: { branch: { id: "br-1", name: BRANCH_NAME }, endpoints: [{ host: "ep-1.neon.tech" }], operations: [] } },
+    { body: { role: { name: BRANCH_NAME, password: "pw" }, operations: [] } },
+    { body: { operations: [] } },
+  ]);
+
+  await provisionNeonDatabase(CONFIG, REQUEST);
+
+  assert.equal((bodyOf(calls[1]!.init) as { branch: { name: string } }).branch.name, BRANCH_NAME);
+});