diff --git a/app/api/internal/pascal-agent/v1/chat/completions/route.ts b/app/api/internal/pascal-agent/v1/chat/completions/route.ts
index 7a61f5a7c..236a9f82e 100644
--- a/app/api/internal/pascal-agent/v1/chat/completions/route.ts
+++ b/app/api/internal/pascal-agent/v1/chat/completions/route.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { NextResponse } from "next/server";
 import { getProviderDefaultBaseUrl } from "@/lib/ai/provider-defaults";
 import { resolveModelRuntimeId } from "@/lib/ai/model-runtime";
-import { getMultimodalAiModelWithProvider } from "@/lib/db/queries";
+import { getMultimodalAiModelsWithProvider } from "@/lib/db/queries";
 import { createLogger } from "@/lib/observability/logger";
 import { isPascalInternalRequest } from "@/lib/pascal/internal-auth";
 
@@ -31,12 +31,19 @@ function openAiError(message: string, status: number) {
   );
 }
 
+async function getConfiguredMultimodalModel() {
+  const candidates = await getMultimodalAiModelsWithProvider();
+  return candidates.find(({ provider }) =>
+    OPENAI_COMPATIBLE_PROVIDER_TYPES.has(provider.type)
+  );
+}
+
 export async function GET(request: Request) {
   if (!isPascalInternalRequest(request)) {
     return NextResponse.json({ error: "not_found" }, { status: 404 });
   }
 
-  const configured = await getMultimodalAiModelWithProvider();
+  const configured = await getConfiguredMultimodalModel();
   if (!configured) {
     return NextResponse.json({ configured: false, selection: "multimodal" });
   }
@@ -67,7 +74,7 @@ export async function POST(request: Request) {
     return openAiError("Invalid JSON body.", 400);
   }
 
-  const configured = await getMultimodalAiModelWithProvider();
+  const configured = await getConfiguredMultimodalModel();
   if (!configured) {
     return openAiError("No enabled multimodal model is configured.", 503);
   }
diff --git a/lib/db/queries.ts b/lib/db/queries.ts
index 87bec9bb4..97d20bb9d 100644
--- a/lib/db/queries.ts
+++ b/lib/db/queries.ts
@@ -4782,31 +4782,12 @@ export async function getAgentAiModelWithProvider() {
   return candidates[0];
 }
 
-export async function getMultimodalAiModelWithProvider() {
+export async function getMultimodalAiModelsWithProvider() {
   const models = await getEnabledAiModelsWithProvider(false);
-  const healthPriority = (status?: string | null) => {
-    if (status === "healthy") return 0;
-    if (status === "degraded") return 1;
-    if (status === "auto_disabled") return 2;
-    return 3;
-  };
-  const candidates = models
-    .filter(
-      ({ model }) =>
-        isAiModelMultimodal(model) && model.healthStatus !== "auto_disabled"
-    )
-    .sort((a, b) => {
-      const byHealth =
-        healthPriority(a.model.healthStatus) -
-        healthPriority(b.model.healthStatus);
-      if (byHealth !== 0) return byHealth;
-      if (a.model.isDefault !== b.model.isDefault) {
-        return Number(b.model.isDefault) - Number(a.model.isDefault);
-      }
-      return (a.model.sortOrder ?? 0) - (b.model.sortOrder ?? 0);
-    });
-
-  return candidates[0];
+  return models.filter(
+    ({ model }) =>
+      isAiModelMultimodal(model) && model.healthStatus !== "auto_disabled"
+  );
 }
 
 /**