diff --git a/lib/github/client.ts b/lib/github/client.ts
index f061a38..39c8652 100644
--- a/lib/github/client.ts
+++ b/lib/github/client.ts
@@ -598,9 +598,10 @@ export async function fetchProfile(
   try {
     user = await fetchUser(tok);
   } catch (e) {
-    // Only a rate limit is cured by another token (a timeout or 5xx would just
-    // fail again) — retry once on the healthiest token, if the pool has one.
-    if ((e as GithubError).type !== "ratelimit" || pool.length < 2) throw e;
+    // A rate-limited or invalid token can be cured by another token. Other
+    // failures (timeouts, 5xx, etc.) would just fail again on the fallback.
+    const type = (e as GithubError).type;
+    if ((type !== "ratelimit" && type !== "config") || pool.length < 2) throw e;
     const fallback = await pickFailover(tok.idx, pool);
     if (!fallback) throw e; // every other token is benched too
     tok = fallback;
diff --git a/tests/client-token-failover.test.ts b/tests/client-token-failover.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6b6bd5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/client-token-failover.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+import { afterEach, beforeEach, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
+
+vi.mock("server-only", () => ({}));
+vi.mock("@/lib/redis", () => ({ redis: null }));
+
+import { fetchProfile } from "@/lib/github/client";
+import { hashLogin } from "@/lib/github/tokens";
+
+const POOL = ["expired-token", "healthy-token"];
+const LOGIN = "someuser";
+const NOW = new Date("2026-07-03T12:00:00Z");
+
+const USER = {
+  login: LOGIN,
+  name: null,
+  avatarUrl: "https://example.com/a.png",
+  location: null,
+  createdAt: "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z",
+  followers: { totalCount: 1 },
+  repositories: { totalCount: 0, nodes: [] },
+  recent: {
+    totalCommitContributions: 1,
+    totalPullRequestContributions: 0,
+    totalPullRequestReviewContributions: 0,
+    totalIssueContributions: 0,
+    restrictedContributionsCount: 0,
+    commitContributionsByRepository: [],
+    contributionCalendar: { weeks: [] },
+  },
+};
+
+const ok = (body: unknown) =>
+  new Response(JSON.stringify(body), { status: 200 });
+
+beforeEach(() => {
+  vi.stubEnv("GITHUB_TOKENS", POOL.join(","));
+  vi.stubEnv("GITHUB_TOKEN", "");
+});
+
+afterEach(() => {
+  vi.unstubAllEnvs();
+  vi.unstubAllGlobals();
+});
+
+it("fails over when the hash-assigned GitHub token is invalid", async () => {
+  const primary = POOL[hashLogin(LOGIN) % POOL.length];
+  const fallback = POOL.find((token) => token !== primary)!;
+  const calls: string[] = [];
+
+  vi.stubGlobal(
+    "fetch",
+    vi.fn(async (_url: unknown, init?: RequestInit) => {
+      const token = String(
+        (init?.headers as Record<string, string>).Authorization,
+      ).replace("Bearer ", "");
+      const body = String(init?.body);
+      calls.push(token);
+
+      if (token === primary) {
+        return new Response(JSON.stringify({ message: "Bad credentials" }), {
+          status: 401,
+        });
+      }
+
+      return body.includes("query Profile")
+        ? ok({ data: { user: USER } })
+        : ok({ data: { user: {} } });
+    }),
+  );
+
+  const payload = await fetchProfile(LOGIN, NOW);
+
+  expect(payload.login).toBe(LOGIN);
+  expect(calls).toEqual([primary, fallback, fallback]);
+});