diff --git a/Lib/_pydecimal.py b/Lib/_pydecimal.py
index ef889ea0cc834c..b448a7cf1cbf2d 100644
--- a/Lib/_pydecimal.py
+++ b/Lib/_pydecimal.py
@@ -6187,13 +6187,15 @@ def _parse_format_specifier(format_spec, _localeconv=None):
     fill = format_dict['fill']
     align = format_dict['align']
     format_dict['zeropad'] = (format_dict['zeropad'] is not None)
+
+    # Support zeropad handling like built-in types (see gh-61449).
     if format_dict['zeropad']:
-        if fill is not None:
-            raise ValueError("Fill character conflicts with '0'"
-                             " in format specifier: " + format_spec)
-        if align is not None:
-            raise ValueError("Alignment conflicts with '0' in "
-                             "format specifier: " + format_spec)
+        if fill is not None and align is not None:
+            format_dict['zeropad'] = False
+        elif align is not None:
+            format_dict['zeropad'] = False
+            fill = "0"
+
     format_dict['fill'] = fill or ' '
     # PEP 3101 originally specified that the default alignment should
     # be left;  it was later agreed that right-aligned makes more sense
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_decimal.py b/Lib/test/test_decimal.py
index fe8c8ce12da0bf..205dd1bbd61e1d 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_decimal.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_decimal.py
@@ -1164,6 +1164,10 @@ def test_formatting(self):
             ('<^+15.20%', 'inf', '<<+Infinity%<<<'),
             ('\x07>,%', 'sNaN1234567', 'sNaN1234567%'),
             ('=10.10%', 'NaN123', '   NaN123%'),
+
+            # issue 61449
+            ('<06', '1.2', '1.2000'),
+            ('x>06', '1.2', 'xxx1.2'),
             ]
         for fmt, d, result in test_values:
             self.assertEqual(format(Decimal(d), fmt), result)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-03-10-19-48-18.gh-issue-61449.0DofsC.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-03-10-19-48-18.gh-issue-61449.0DofsC.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..7ae56e4a3f9f59
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-03-10-19-48-18.gh-issue-61449.0DofsC.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Align support of zero-padding option for :class:`~decimal.Decimal`
+formatting with builtin numeric types.  Patch by Sergey B Kirpichev.