diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3967d02c..d24eeffb 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # Unreleased
 - Support `gpt_5_1_2025_11_13`, `gpt_5_4_2026_03_05`, `gemini_2_5_pro`, and `gemini_3_1_pro_preview` model versions
 - Fix downloaded packages placing extension-less documents at the package root instead of in the `documents/` folder
+- Fix `re package download` progress bar showing more progress than the total when the dataset's comment count is approximate
 
 # v0.39.0
 - Allow `re get comments --reviewed-only` to be combined with dataset filters
diff --git a/cli/src/commands/package/download.rs b/cli/src/commands/package/download.rs
index 1a9d8c0c..ed61e3f4 100644
--- a/cli/src/commands/package/download.rs
+++ b/cli/src/commands/package/download.rs
@@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ fn get_ixp_progress_bar(total_comments: u64, statistics: &Arc<Statistics>) -> Pr
             let num_annotations = statistics.num_annotations();
             let num_docs_written = statistics.num_document_writes();
             (
-                ((num_comments + num_docs_downloaded + num_docs_written) / 3) as u64,
+                (num_comments + num_docs_downloaded + num_docs_written) as u64,
                 format!(
                     "{} {} {} {} {} {} {} {}",
                     num_comments.to_string().bold(),
@@ -613,7 +613,7 @@ fn get_ixp_progress_bar(total_comments: u64, statistics: &Arc<Statistics>) -> Pr
             )
         },
         statistics,
-        Some(total_comments),
+        Some(total_comments * 3),
         crate::progress::Options { bytes_units: false },
     )
 }
diff --git a/cli/src/progress.rs b/cli/src/progress.rs
index 735f1a78..12bf7f69 100644
--- a/cli/src/progress.rs
+++ b/cli/src/progress.rs
@@ -107,14 +107,22 @@ where
         let progress_fn = progress_fn;
         let statistics = Arc::clone(&statistics);
         let sleep_duration = Duration::from_millis(100);
+        let mut current_max = max_progress_value;
 
         while report_progress.load(Ordering::SeqCst) {
             thread::sleep(sleep_duration);
             let (progress_value, message) = progress_fn(&statistics);
             progress_bar.set_position(progress_value);
             progress_bar.set_prefix(message);
-            match max_progress_value {
-                Some(value) => progress_bar.set_message(format!("{progress_value} / {value}")),
+            match current_max {
+                Some(value) => {
+                    let display_total = progress_value.max(value);
+                    if display_total > value {
+                        progress_bar.set_length(display_total);
+                        current_max = Some(display_total);
+                    }
+                    progress_bar.set_message(format!("{progress_value} / {display_total}"));
+                }
                 None => progress_bar.set_message(format!("{progress_value}")),
             };
         }