diff --git a/litellm/router.py b/litellm/router.py
index 88601e5b97b..f9d4bf1428e 100644
--- a/litellm/router.py
+++ b/litellm/router.py
@@ -11170,28 +11170,31 @@ class Router:
 
     def get_candidate_model_ids_for_route(self, model: str, team_id: str | None = None) -> frozenset[str]:
         """
-        Deployment ids that could serve ``model`` for ``team_id``, unioned across the paths
-        the router resolves a route through: ``model_group_alias``, a routing group, the
-        ``model_name`` and team indexes, and wildcard pattern routes. Read-only and
-        side-effect-free, unlike ``_common_checks_available_deployment`` which also applies
-        fallbacks and can raise. Lets a pre-call check tell a genuine cross-group route from
-        same-group unavailability without re-deriving that precedence at the call site, and
-        without leaking deployment ids into request kwargs bound for the provider.
+        Deployment ids that could serve ``model`` for ``team_id``, following the same
+        precedence ``_common_checks_available_deployment`` uses to build a candidate pool:
+        ``model_group_alias``, then a routing group, then the first matching early-resolve
+        path for a name that is not a ``model_name`` (team route, wildcard pattern via
+        ``get_deployments_by_pattern``, team pattern router, default deployment), then the
+        ``model_name`` and team indexes. Delegating to the router's own resolvers keeps this
+        aligned with how a route actually resolves rather than re-deriving it, and unlike
+        ``_common_checks_available_deployment`` it is read-only: it does not apply request
+        fallbacks and (with ``include_team_models`` left off) does not raise. Lets a pre-call
+        check tell a genuine cross-group route from same-group unavailability without leaking
+        deployment ids into request kwargs bound for the provider.
         """
         resolved: Final = self._get_model_from_alias(model=model) or model
         routing_group_members: Final = self._get_routing_group_deployments(model=resolved, team_id=team_id)
         if routing_group_members is not None:
             return self._deployment_ids(routing_group_members)
-        if resolved in self.model_names:
-            return self._deployment_ids(self._get_all_deployments(model_name=resolved, team_id=team_id))
-        team_router: Final = self.team_pattern_routers.get(team_id) if team_id is not None else None
-        return self._deployment_ids(
-            (
-                *self._get_all_deployments(model_name=resolved, team_id=team_id),
-                *(self.pattern_router.route(resolved) or ()),
-                *((team_router.route(resolved) or ()) if team_router is not None else ()),
-            )
+        early: Final = self._try_early_resolve_deployments_for_model_not_in_names(
+            model=resolved, request_team_id=team_id
         )
+        if early is not None:
+            early_deployments: Final = early[1]
+            return self._deployment_ids(
+                (early_deployments,) if isinstance(early_deployments, Mapping) else early_deployments
+            )
+        return self._deployment_ids(self._get_all_deployments(model_name=resolved, team_id=team_id))
 
     @staticmethod
     def _deployment_ids(deployments: Sequence[Mapping[str, object]]) -> frozenset[str]:
diff --git a/tests/test_litellm/test_router.py b/tests/test_litellm/test_router.py
index 1e0327e5ac2..f5b1f79ad73 100644
--- a/tests/test_litellm/test_router.py
+++ b/tests/test_litellm/test_router.py
@@ -15023,7 +15023,9 @@ def test_get_candidate_model_ids_for_route_covers_model_name_and_pattern():
     pre-call check can tell a genuine cross-group route from same-group unavailability.
     A concrete model group returns its member ids; a wildcard/pattern deployment is
     included for a concrete model it matches, which the bare model_name index misses.
-    Regression guard for the LIT-7195 tier-change discriminator's team/pattern gaps.
+    The unprefixed-name case must resolve through get_deployments_by_pattern (which retries
+    the provider-qualified form), not a bare pattern_router.route that only sees the literal
+    name. Regression guard for the LIT-7195 tier-change discriminator's team/pattern gaps.
     """
     router = Router(
         model_list=[
@@ -15047,6 +15049,9 @@ def test_get_candidate_model_ids_for_route_covers_model_name_and_pattern():
 
     assert router.get_candidate_model_ids_for_route(model="grp") == frozenset({"dep-a", "dep-b"})
     assert "dep-wild" in router.get_candidate_model_ids_for_route(model="openai/gpt-4o-some-new-model")
+    # unprefixed name whose provider resolves to openai: only get_deployments_by_pattern's
+    # provider-qualified retry matches "openai/*"; a bare route() on the literal name misses it
+    assert "dep-wild" in router.get_candidate_model_ids_for_route(model="gpt-5")
 
 
 def test_deployment_ids_stringifies_ids_and_skips_entries_without_a_model_info_id():