diff --git a/litellm/proxy/auth/auth_checks.py b/litellm/proxy/auth/auth_checks.py
index e404a1d406..655de7964e 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/auth/auth_checks.py
+++ b/litellm/proxy/auth/auth_checks.py
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ from litellm.proxy._types import (
     LitellmUserRoles,
     UserAPIKeyAuth,
 )
+from litellm.proxy.auth.auth_utils import is_openai_route
 from litellm.proxy.utils import PrismaClient, ProxyLogging, log_to_opentelemetry
 from litellm.types.services import ServiceLoggerPayload, ServiceTypes
 
@@ -105,7 +106,7 @@ def common_checks(
         general_settings.get("enforce_user_param", None) is not None
         and general_settings["enforce_user_param"] == True
     ):
-        if route in LiteLLMRoutes.openai_routes.value and "user" not in request_body:
+        if is_openai_route(route=route) and "user" not in request_body:
             raise Exception(
                 f"'user' param not passed in. 'enforce_user_param'={general_settings['enforce_user_param']}"
             )
@@ -121,7 +122,7 @@ def common_checks(
                 + CommonProxyErrors.not_premium_user.value
             )
 
-        if route in LiteLLMRoutes.openai_routes.value:
+        if is_openai_route(route=route):
             # loop through each enforced param
             # example enforced_params ['user', 'metadata', 'metadata.generation_name']
             for enforced_param in general_settings["enforced_params"]:
@@ -149,7 +150,7 @@ def common_checks(
         and global_proxy_spend is not None
         # only run global budget checks for OpenAI routes
         # Reason - the Admin UI should continue working if the proxy crosses it's global budget
-        and route in LiteLLMRoutes.openai_routes.value
+        and is_openai_route(route=route)
         and route != "/v1/models"
         and route != "/models"
     ):
diff --git a/litellm/proxy/auth/user_api_key_auth.py b/litellm/proxy/auth/user_api_key_auth.py
index bc774816f6..7889cf86fe 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/auth/user_api_key_auth.py
+++ b/litellm/proxy/auth/user_api_key_auth.py
@@ -56,7 +56,10 @@ from litellm.proxy.auth.auth_checks import (
     get_user_object,
     log_to_opentelemetry,
 )
-from litellm.proxy.auth.auth_utils import route_in_additonal_public_routes
+from litellm.proxy.auth.auth_utils import (
+    is_openai_route,
+    route_in_additonal_public_routes,
+)
 from litellm.proxy.common_utils.http_parsing_utils import _read_request_body
 from litellm.proxy.utils import _to_ns
 
@@ -920,9 +923,9 @@ async def user_api_key_auth(
             _user_role = _get_user_role(user_id_information=user_id_information)
 
             if not _is_user_proxy_admin(user_id_information):  # if non-admin
-                if route in LiteLLMRoutes.openai_routes.value:
+                if is_openai_route(route=route):
                     pass
-                elif request["route"].name in LiteLLMRoutes.openai_route_names.value:
+                elif is_openai_route(route=request["route"].name):
                     pass
                 elif (
                     route in LiteLLMRoutes.info_routes.value
@@ -975,7 +978,7 @@ async def user_api_key_auth(
 
                     pass
                 elif _user_role == LitellmUserRoles.PROXY_ADMIN_VIEW_ONLY.value:
-                    if route in LiteLLMRoutes.openai_routes.value:
+                    if is_openai_route(route=route):
                         raise HTTPException(
                             status_code=status.HTTP_403_FORBIDDEN,
                             detail=f"user not allowed to access this OpenAI routes, role= {_user_role}",