diff --git a/.yarn/versions/c9fc51b8.yml b/.yarn/versions/c9fc51b8.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c478fb5cca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.yarn/versions/c9fc51b8.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+releases:
+  "@radix-ui/react-progress": minor
+
+declined:
+  - primitives
diff --git a/packages/react/progress/src/Progress.stories.tsx b/packages/react/progress/src/Progress.stories.tsx
index 11ff16826a..0555c5fd19 100644
--- a/packages/react/progress/src/Progress.stories.tsx
+++ b/packages/react/progress/src/Progress.stories.tsx
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ export const Chromatic = () => (
     </Progress.Root>
 
     <h1>Indeterminate</h1>
-    <Progress.Root className={rootClass()} value={null}>
+    <Progress.Root className={rootClass()}>
       <Progress.Indicator className={chromaticIndicatorClass()}>/</Progress.Indicator>
     </Progress.Root>
 
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ export const Chromatic = () => (
     </Progress.Root>
 
     <h2>Indeterminate</h2>
-    <Progress.Root className={rootAttrClass()} value={null}>
+    <Progress.Root className={rootAttrClass()}>
       <Progress.Indicator className={indicatorAttrClass()}>/</Progress.Indicator>
     </Progress.Root>
 
diff --git a/packages/react/progress/src/Progress.tsx b/packages/react/progress/src/Progress.tsx
index f072988f47..1a3de18323 100644
--- a/packages/react/progress/src/Progress.tsx
+++ b/packages/react/progress/src/Progress.tsx
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ const Progress = React.forwardRef<ProgressElement, ProgressProps>(
   (props: ScopedProps<ProgressProps>, forwardedRef) => {
     const {
       __scopeProgress,
-      value: valueProp,
+      value: valueProp = null,
       max: maxProp,
       getValueLabel = defaultGetValueLabel,
       ...progressProps
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ function getInvalidValueError(propValue: string, componentName: string) {
   return `Invalid prop \`value\` of value \`${propValue}\` supplied to \`${componentName}\`. The \`value\` prop must be:
   - a positive number
   - less than the value passed to \`max\` (or ${DEFAULT_MAX} if no \`max\` prop is set)
-  - \`null\` if the progress is indeterminate.
+  - \`null\` or \`undefined\` if the progress is indeterminate.
 
 Defaulting to \`null\`.`;
 }