From 9b4442c6df65ad048097a1c0a87d23978deb2c73 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: user <70670632+stuxf@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2026 21:37:11 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] chore(router): drop unreachable unknown-model error branch

get_model_list always returns a list, never None, so the is-None branch
could not execute. Collapse to the single reachable message.
---
 litellm/router.py | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/litellm/router.py b/litellm/router.py
index 8abdd60ccad..2d66bc3158d 100644
--- a/litellm/router.py
+++ b/litellm/router.py
@@ -10031,10 +10031,7 @@ class Router:
 
             # If still no deployments after checking for fallbacks, raise an error
             if len(healthy_deployments) == 0:
-                if self.get_model_list(model_name=model) is None:
-                    message = f"You passed in model={model}. There is no 'model_name' with this string"
-                else:
-                    message = f"You passed in model={model}. There are no healthy deployments for this model"
+                message = f"You passed in model={model}. There are no healthy deployments for this model"
 
                 raise litellm.BadRequestError(
                     message=message,