diff --git a/internal/entity/models/novita.go b/internal/entity/models/novita.go
index 980a61949b..51f006443f 100644
--- a/internal/entity/models/novita.go
+++ b/internal/entity/models/novita.go
@@ -57,7 +57,15 @@ type NovitaModel struct {
 // clone http.DefaultTransport, override the connection-pool fields,
 // no client-level Timeout so SSE streams are not capped.
 func NewNovitaModel(baseURL map[string]string, urlSuffix URLSuffix) *NovitaModel {
-	transport := http.DefaultTransport.(*http.Transport).Clone()
+	defaultTransport, ok := http.DefaultTransport.(*http.Transport)
+	var transport *http.Transport
+	if ok {
+		transport = defaultTransport.Clone()
+	} else {
+		transport = &http.Transport{
+			Proxy: http.ProxyFromEnvironment,
+		}
+	}
 	transport.MaxIdleConns = 100
 	transport.MaxIdleConnsPerHost = 10
 	transport.IdleConnTimeout = 90 * time.Second
diff --git a/internal/entity/models/novita_test.go b/internal/entity/models/novita_test.go
index 177085cad9..43d12b0c18 100644
--- a/internal/entity/models/novita_test.go
+++ b/internal/entity/models/novita_test.go
@@ -9,6 +9,12 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 )
 
+type roundTripperFunc func(*http.Request) (*http.Response, error)
+
+func (f roundTripperFunc) RoundTrip(r *http.Request) (*http.Response, error) {
+	return f(r)
+}
+
 func newNovitaServer(t *testing.T, expectedPath string, handler func(t *testing.T, body map[string]interface{}, w http.ResponseWriter)) *httptest.Server {
 	t.Helper()
 	return httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
@@ -58,6 +64,20 @@ func newNovitaForTest(baseURL string) *NovitaModel {
 	)
 }
 
+func TestNovitaNewModelWithCustomDefaultTransport(t *testing.T) {
+	original := http.DefaultTransport
+	http.DefaultTransport = roundTripperFunc(func(*http.Request) (*http.Response, error) {
+		return nil, nil
+	})
+	t.Cleanup(func() {
+		http.DefaultTransport = original
+	})
+
+	if model := NewNovitaModel(map[string]string{"default": "http://unused"}, URLSuffix{}); model == nil {
+		t.Fatal("NewNovitaModel returned nil")
+	}
+}
+
 // newNovitaSSEServer asserts the SSE-chat wire contract (POST, path,
 // Authorization, Content-Type) the same way newNovitaServer does for
 // the JSON-chat path, then writes the supplied SSE payload. Closes