diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/playground/components/chat_ui/EndpointUtils.test.tsx b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/playground/components/chat_ui/EndpointUtils.test.tsx
index 778effdaea6..c528071fa8a 100644
--- a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/playground/components/chat_ui/EndpointUtils.test.tsx
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/playground/components/chat_ui/EndpointUtils.test.tsx
@@ -247,6 +247,13 @@ describe("isModelCompatibleWithEndpoint / filterModelsForEndpoint", () => {
     expect(isModelCompatibleWithEndpoint(batchModel, EndpointType.REALTIME)).toBe(false);
   });
 
+  it("keeps completion-mode models for the chat endpoint", () => {
+    const completionModel: ModelGroup = { model_group: "davinci-002", mode: "completion" };
+    expect(isModelCompatibleWithEndpoint(completionModel, EndpointType.CHAT)).toBe(true);
+    expect(isModelCompatibleWithEndpoint(completionModel, EndpointType.RESPONSES)).toBe(true);
+    expect(isModelCompatibleWithEndpoint(completionModel, EndpointType.SPEECH)).toBe(false);
+  });
+
   it("keeps image-edit models for the image-edits endpoint using the mode the backend sends", () => {
     const imageEditModel: ModelGroup = { model_group: "gpt-image-1", mode: "image_edit" };
     const imageModel: ModelGroup = { model_group: "dall-e-3", mode: "image_generation" };
diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/chat_ui/mode_endpoint_mapping.tsx b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/chat_ui/mode_endpoint_mapping.tsx
index 18e44e06efe..930ded5d1a5 100644
--- a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/chat_ui/mode_endpoint_mapping.tsx
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/chat_ui/mode_endpoint_mapping.tsx
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ export enum ModelMode {
   IMAGE_GENERATION = "image_generation",
   VIDEO_GENERATION = "video_generation",
   CHAT = "chat",
+  COMPLETION = "completion",
   RESPONSES = "responses",
   IMAGE_EDITS = "image_edit",
   ANTHROPIC_MESSAGES = "anthropic_messages",
@@ -36,6 +37,7 @@ export const litellmModeMapping: Record<ModelMode, EndpointType> = {
   [ModelMode.IMAGE_GENERATION]: EndpointType.IMAGE,
   [ModelMode.VIDEO_GENERATION]: EndpointType.VIDEO,
   [ModelMode.CHAT]: EndpointType.CHAT,
+  [ModelMode.COMPLETION]: EndpointType.CHAT,
   [ModelMode.RESPONSES]: EndpointType.RESPONSES,
   [ModelMode.IMAGE_EDITS]: EndpointType.IMAGE_EDITS,
   [ModelMode.ANTHROPIC_MESSAGES]: EndpointType.ANTHROPIC_MESSAGES,