diff --git a/litellm/proxy/common_utils/codex_model_catalog.py b/litellm/proxy/common_utils/codex_model_catalog.py
index 12db7fabb76..462e372f3d8 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/common_utils/codex_model_catalog.py
+++ b/litellm/proxy/common_utils/codex_model_catalog.py
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ from pathlib import Path
 from types import MappingProxyType
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Final, Literal, TypeAlias
 
+from packaging.version import Version
 from pydantic import ConfigDict, TypeAdapter, ValidationError
 
 from litellm._logging import verbose_proxy_logger
@@ -109,6 +110,7 @@ class CodexStockModel(LiteLLMBaseModel):
     supported_reasoning_levels: tuple[CodexReasoningLevel, ...] = ()
     context_window: int | None = None
     max_context_window: int | None = None
+    minimal_client_version: str | tuple[int, ...] | None = None
 
 
 class CodexStockCatalog(LiteLLMBaseModel):
@@ -278,6 +280,19 @@ def _stock_for(row: CodexCatalogRow, stock: Mapping[str, CodexStockModel]) -> Co
     return next((stock[name] for name in names if name in stock), None)
 
 
+def _readable_by(stock_model: CodexStockModel, client_version: str | None) -> bool:
+    """Whether Codex's own server would hand this entry to the requesting release: one at or past the entry's
+    `minimal_client_version`. An older release can fail to decode it, and one entry it cannot decode (a reasoning
+    effort it has no name for) fails the whole catalog, so it gets a translated entry. No version keeps the entry."""
+    minimum: Final = stock_model.minimal_client_version
+    if minimum is None or client_version is None:
+        return True
+    try:
+        return Version(client_version) >= Version(minimum if isinstance(minimum, str) else ".".join(map(str, minimum)))
+    except ValueError:
+        return False
+
+
 def _tier_fields(stock_model: CodexStockModel, tiers: tuple[CodexServiceTier, ...]) -> Mapping[str, object]:
     """The tier fields of an entry offering `tiers`. Codex turns `/fast` on off a speed tier as much as off a
     service tier, so a speed tier stays only while a service tier billed the same way is still offered, and the
@@ -370,7 +385,8 @@ def _entry(
     alias_defaults: CodexAliasDefaults,
     client_version: str | None,
 ) -> CodexCatalogEntry:
-    stock_model: Final = _stock_for(row, stock)
+    matched: Final = _stock_for(row, stock)
+    stock_model: Final = matched if matched is not None and _readable_by(matched, client_version) else None
     stock_tiers: Final = MappingProxyType(
         {tier.id: tier for tier in (stock_model.service_tiers if stock_model is not None else ())}
     )
diff --git a/tests/unit/proxy/common_utils/test_codex_model_catalog.py b/tests/unit/proxy/common_utils/test_codex_model_catalog.py
index 69509bed060..760f79f4ec2 100644
--- a/tests/unit/proxy/common_utils/test_codex_model_catalog.py
+++ b/tests/unit/proxy/common_utils/test_codex_model_catalog.py
@@ -180,6 +180,51 @@ def test_a_model_codex_knows_keeps_its_own_reasoning_levels(levels):
     assert (entry["default_reasoning_level"], entry["supported_reasoning_levels"]) == ("medium", levels)
 
 
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("minimum", ["0.153.0", [0, 153, 0]], ids=["string", "parts"])
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    ("client_version", "display_name", "levels"),
+    [
+        ("0.153.0", "GPT-6.1 Terra", ["low", "max"]),
+        ("0.166.0", "GPT-6.1 Terra", ["low", "max"]),
+        (None, "GPT-6.1 Terra", ["low", "max"]),
+        ("0.152.9", "gpt-6.1-terra", ["low", "max"]),
+        ("0.137.0", "gpt-6.1-terra", ["low"]),
+        ("not-a-version", "gpt-6.1-terra", ["low"]),
+    ],
+)
+def test_a_codex_older_than_an_entrys_minimal_version_gets_an_entry_it_can_decode(
+    minimum, client_version, display_name, levels
+):
+    """Codex 0.137 rejects the whole catalog on an effort it has no name for, such as the `max` Codex's own
+    gpt-6.1-terra entry offers, so a release older than the entry's `minimal_client_version` gets the translated
+    entry, whose levels are trimmed to that release."""
+    stock = CodexStockModel.model_validate(
+        {
+            "slug": "gpt-6.1-terra",
+            "display_name": "GPT-6.1 Terra",
+            "priority": 3,
+            "visibility": "list",
+            "minimal_client_version": minimum,
+            "default_reasoning_level": "low",
+            "supported_reasoning_levels": [{"effort": "low"}, {"effort": "max"}],
+        }
+    )
+
+    (entry,) = json.loads(
+        codex_models_response_json(
+            (_row("gpt-6.1-terra", supported_reasoning_efforts=("low", "max")),),
+            stock={"gpt-6.1-terra": stock},
+            instructions=_PROMPT,
+            client_version=client_version,
+        ).json
+    )["models"]
+
+    assert (entry["display_name"], [level["effort"] for level in entry["supported_reasoning_levels"]]) == (
+        display_name,
+        levels,
+    )
+
+
 def test_known_model_keeps_codex_stock_entry_listed_under_the_served_id():
     (entry,) = _models(_row("gpt-daybreak"))