diff --git a/docs/my-website/docs/proxy/configs.md b/docs/my-website/docs/proxy/configs.md
index e83125f2a9..59102c24d2 100644
--- a/docs/my-website/docs/proxy/configs.md
+++ b/docs/my-website/docs/proxy/configs.md
@@ -600,6 +600,7 @@ general_settings:
   "general_settings": {
     "completion_model": "string",
     "disable_spend_logs": "boolean", # turn off writing each transaction to the db
+    "disable_master_key_return": "boolean", # turn off returning master key on UI (checked on '/user/info' endpoint)
     "disable_reset_budget": "boolean", # turn off reset budget scheduled task
     "enable_jwt_auth": "boolean", # allow proxy admin to auth in via jwt tokens with 'litellm_proxy_admin' in claims
     "enforce_user_param": "boolean", # requires all openai endpoint requests to have a 'user' param
diff --git a/litellm/proxy/_new_secret_config.yaml b/litellm/proxy/_new_secret_config.yaml
index 8c117dc9f8..33c7271652 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/_new_secret_config.yaml
+++ b/litellm/proxy/_new_secret_config.yaml
@@ -52,5 +52,6 @@ litellm_settings:
 
 general_settings:
   alerting: ["slack"]
+  disable_master_key_return: true
   alerting_threshold: 300 # sends alerts if requests hang for 5min+ and responses take 5min+
   proxy_batch_write_at: 60 # Frequency of batch writing logs to server (in seconds)
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diff --git a/litellm/proxy/proxy_server.py b/litellm/proxy/proxy_server.py
index 5af18c0ee6..7c572f13c1 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/proxy_server.py
+++ b/litellm/proxy/proxy_server.py
@@ -2312,7 +2312,7 @@ class ProxyConfig:
                 master_key = litellm.get_secret(master_key)
 
             if master_key is not None and isinstance(master_key, str):
-                litellm_master_key_hash = master_key
+                litellm_master_key_hash = hash_token(master_key)
             ### STORE MODEL IN DB ### feature flag for `/model/new`
             store_model_in_db = general_settings.get("store_model_in_db", False)
             if store_model_in_db is None:
@@ -5977,6 +5977,13 @@ async def user_info(
         ## REMOVE HASHED TOKEN INFO before returning ##
         returned_keys = []
         for key in keys:
+            if (
+                key.token == litellm_master_key_hash
+                and general_settings.get("disable_master_key_return", False)
+                == True  ## [IMPORTANT] used by hosted proxy-ui to prevent sharing master key on ui
+            ):
+                continue
+
             try:
                 key = key.model_dump()  # noqa
             except: