diff --git a/src/core/budget/budget-tracker.ts b/src/core/budget/budget-tracker.ts
index d5bf44e21..c0b692892 100644
--- a/src/core/budget/budget-tracker.ts
+++ b/src/core/budget/budget-tracker.ts
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ import { mkdirSync, appendFileSync } from 'node:fs';
 import { dirname } from 'node:path';
 import { gbrainPath } from '../config.ts';
 import { ANTHROPIC_PRICING, type ModelPricing } from '../anthropic-pricing.ts';
+import { canonicalLookup } from '../model-pricing.ts';
 import { EMBEDDING_PRICING, lookupEmbeddingPrice } from '../embedding-pricing.ts';
 import { splitProviderModelId } from '../model-id.ts';
 import { isoWeekFilename, resolveAuditDir } from '../audit-week-file.ts';
@@ -194,6 +195,15 @@ function lookupPricing(modelId: string, kind: BudgetKind): ModelPricing | null {
     const tailHit = ANTHROPIC_PRICING[modelTail];
     if (tailHit) return tailHit;
   }
+  // Non-Anthropic chat models (openai:, google:, deepseek:, ...) live in the
+  // canonical pricing table, not the Anthropic-only ANTHROPIC_PRICING view.
+  // Without this fall-through every non-Anthropic chat model returns null,
+  // and under a cost cap reserve() throws BudgetExhausted(no_pricing) BEFORE
+  // the provider call — silently zeroing extraction for those providers.
+  // OpenRouter-prefixed ids still MISS by design (canonicalLookup's contract:
+  // OpenRouter markup ≠ native pricing).
+  const canonical = canonicalLookup(modelId);
+  if (canonical) return canonical;
   // v0.40.6.1: zero-price local-inference rerank providers so the budget
   // tracker's TX2 hard-fail doesn't trip on `llama-server-reranker:<model>`
   // under `--max-cost`. Only the rerank kind — chat/embed already have
diff --git a/test/core/budget/budget-tracker.test.ts b/test/core/budget/budget-tracker.test.ts
index 9dd236bb4..f61b77e37 100644
--- a/test/core/budget/budget-tracker.test.ts
+++ b/test/core/budget/budget-tracker.test.ts
@@ -170,6 +170,37 @@ describe('BudgetTracker.reserve', () => {
     ).not.toThrow();
   });
 
+  test('non-Anthropic chat model under --max-cost prices via the canonical table (no no_pricing throw)', () => {
+    // Pre-fix: chat lookup consulted only ANTHROPIC_PRICING, so any
+    // openai:/google:/deepseek: chat model hit TX2 no_pricing BEFORE the
+    // provider call whenever a cost cap was set (takeover of #2127).
+    const t = new BudgetTracker({ maxCostUsd: 10.0, label: 'test', auditPath });
+    for (const modelId of ['openai:gpt-5', 'google:gemini-2.0-flash', 'deepseek:deepseek-chat']) {
+      expect(() =>
+        t.reserve({
+          modelId,
+          estimatedInputTokens: 100,
+          maxOutputTokens: 100,
+          kind: 'chat',
+        }),
+      ).not.toThrow();
+    }
+  });
+
+  test('openrouter-prefixed chat model still TX2 no_pricing-fails under cap (canonical MISS contract)', () => {
+    // canonicalLookup intentionally misses openrouter:* ids (markup != native
+    // pricing); the budget gate must stay fail-closed for them.
+    const t = new BudgetTracker({ maxCostUsd: 10.0, label: 'test', auditPath });
+    expect(() =>
+      t.reserve({
+        modelId: 'openrouter:anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6',
+        estimatedInputTokens: 100,
+        maxOutputTokens: 100,
+        kind: 'chat',
+      }),
+    ).toThrow(BudgetExhausted);
+  });
+
   test('no cap + unknown pricing: warns once per process, no throw', () => {
     const t = new BudgetTracker({ label: 'test', auditPath });
     expect(() =>