diff --git a/fe/fe-core/src/main/java/org/apache/doris/nereids/trees/plans/distribute/worker/job/UnassignedScanBucketOlapTableJob.java b/fe/fe-core/src/main/java/org/apache/doris/nereids/trees/plans/distribute/worker/job/UnassignedScanBucketOlapTableJob.java
index 6a2315966bcdd5..b6a450c93a1b1a 100644
--- a/fe/fe-core/src/main/java/org/apache/doris/nereids/trees/plans/distribute/worker/job/UnassignedScanBucketOlapTableJob.java
+++ b/fe/fe-core/src/main/java/org/apache/doris/nereids/trees/plans/distribute/worker/job/UnassignedScanBucketOlapTableJob.java
@@ -523,6 +523,13 @@ protected int degreeOfParallelism(int maxParallel, boolean useLocalShuffleToAddP
             }
         }
 
+        // The tablet-based parallelism strategy only applies when the fragment has no exchange nodes
+        // (e.g. pure colocate scan). When exchange nodes are present (e.g. bucket shuffle join),
+        // fall back to the base class behavior to avoid over-parallelizing the join fragment.
+        if (!exchangeToChildJob.isEmpty()) {
+            return super.degreeOfParallelism(maxParallel, useLocalShuffleToAddParallel);
+        }
+
         long tabletNum = 0;
         for (ScanNode scanNode : scanNodes) {
             if (scanNode instanceof OlapScanNode) {
diff --git a/fe/fe-core/src/test/java/org/apache/doris/nereids/trees/plans/distribute/worker/job/UnassignedScanBucketOlapTableJobTest.java b/fe/fe-core/src/test/java/org/apache/doris/nereids/trees/plans/distribute/worker/job/UnassignedScanBucketOlapTableJobTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..db7f55fb2fd240
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fe/fe-core/src/test/java/org/apache/doris/nereids/trees/plans/distribute/worker/job/UnassignedScanBucketOlapTableJobTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,117 @@
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+// "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
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+// under the License.
+
+package org.apache.doris.nereids.trees.plans.distribute.worker.job;
+
+import org.apache.doris.nereids.StatementContext;
+import org.apache.doris.nereids.trees.plans.distribute.worker.ScanWorkerSelector;
+import org.apache.doris.planner.DataPartition;
+import org.apache.doris.planner.ExchangeNode;
+import org.apache.doris.planner.OlapScanNode;
+import org.apache.doris.planner.PlanFragment;
+import org.apache.doris.qe.ConnectContext;
+import org.apache.doris.qe.OriginStatement;
+import org.apache.doris.thrift.TUniqueId;
+
+import com.google.common.collect.ArrayListMultimap;
+import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.mockito.Mockito;
+
+import java.util.BitSet;
+
+public class UnassignedScanBucketOlapTableJobTest {
+
+    @Test
+    public void testDegreeOfParallelismWithExchangeNodes() {
+        ConnectContext connectContext = new ConnectContext();
+        connectContext.setThreadLocalInfo();
+        connectContext.setQueryId(new TUniqueId(1, 1));
+        connectContext.getSessionVariable().parallelPipelineTaskNum = 1;
+        connectContext.getSessionVariable().colocateMaxParallelNum = 128;
+        StatementContext statementContext = new StatementContext(
+                connectContext, new OriginStatement("select * from t", 0));
+        connectContext.setStatementContext(statementContext);
+
+        OlapScanNode olapScanNode = Mockito.mock(OlapScanNode.class);
+        Mockito.when(olapScanNode.getTotalTabletsNum()).thenReturn(100L);
+
+        PlanFragment fragment = Mockito.mock(PlanFragment.class);
+        Mockito.when(fragment.getDataPartition()).thenReturn(DataPartition.RANDOM);
+        Mockito.when(fragment.getParallelExecNum()).thenReturn(5);
+
+        ScanWorkerSelector scanWorkerSelector = Mockito.mock(ScanWorkerSelector.class);
+
+        // Non-empty exchangeToChildJob simulates bucket shuffle join fragment.
+        ExchangeNode exchangeNode = Mockito.mock(ExchangeNode.class);
+        UnassignedJob mockChild = Mockito.mock(UnassignedJob.class);
+        Mockito.when(mockChild.getAllChildrenTypes()).thenReturn(new BitSet());
+        ArrayListMultimap<ExchangeNode, UnassignedJob> exchangeToChildJob = ArrayListMultimap.create();
+        exchangeToChildJob.put(exchangeNode, mockChild);
+
+        UnassignedScanBucketOlapTableJob unassignedJob = new UnassignedScanBucketOlapTableJob(
+                statementContext,
+                fragment,
+                ImmutableList.of(olapScanNode),
+                exchangeToChildJob,
+                scanWorkerSelector
+        );
+
+        // maxParallel = 3 (buckets), parallelExecNum = 5
+        // Base class: min(maxParallel, max(parallelExecNum, 1)) = min(3, 5) = 3
+        int result = unassignedJob.degreeOfParallelism(3, false);
+        Assertions.assertEquals(3, result);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testDegreeOfParallelismWithoutExchangeNodes() {
+        ConnectContext connectContext = new ConnectContext();
+        connectContext.setThreadLocalInfo();
+        connectContext.setQueryId(new TUniqueId(2, 2));
+        connectContext.getSessionVariable().parallelPipelineTaskNum = 1;
+        connectContext.getSessionVariable().colocateMaxParallelNum = 128;
+        StatementContext statementContext = new StatementContext(
+                connectContext, new OriginStatement("select * from t", 0));
+        connectContext.setStatementContext(statementContext);
+
+        OlapScanNode olapScanNode = Mockito.mock(OlapScanNode.class);
+        Mockito.when(olapScanNode.getTotalTabletsNum()).thenReturn(100L);
+        Mockito.when(olapScanNode.shouldUseOneInstance(Mockito.any())).thenReturn(false);
+
+        PlanFragment fragment = Mockito.mock(PlanFragment.class);
+        Mockito.when(fragment.getDataPartition()).thenReturn(DataPartition.RANDOM);
+        Mockito.when(fragment.getParallelExecNum()).thenReturn(5);
+
+        ScanWorkerSelector scanWorkerSelector = Mockito.mock(ScanWorkerSelector.class);
+
+        // Empty exchangeToChildJob simulates pure colocate scan (no exchange nodes).
+        ArrayListMultimap<ExchangeNode, UnassignedJob> exchangeToChildJob = ArrayListMultimap.create();
+
+        UnassignedScanBucketOlapTableJob unassignedJob = new UnassignedScanBucketOlapTableJob(
+                statementContext,
+                fragment,
+                ImmutableList.of(olapScanNode),
+                exchangeToChildJob,
+                scanWorkerSelector
+        );
+
+        // Tablet strategy: min(max(tabletNum=100, parallelExecNum=5), colocateMaxParallelNum=128) = 100
+        int result = unassignedJob.degreeOfParallelism(3, false);
+        Assertions.assertEquals(100, result);
+    }
+}