diff --git a/crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/openai_chat/stream.rs b/crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/openai_chat/stream.rs
index b4c6273b1..8ee7feab2 100644
--- a/crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/openai_chat/stream.rs
+++ b/crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/openai_chat/stream.rs
@@ -97,14 +97,6 @@ fn decode_openai_chat_stream(
             continue;
         };
         if let Some(delta) = choice.get("delta").and_then(Value::as_object) {
-            if let Some(text) = delta.get("content").and_then(Value::as_str)
-                && !text.is_empty()
-            {
-                out.push(LlmResponseChunk::TextDelta {
-                    index: 0,
-                    text: text.to_string(),
-                });
-            }
             for reasoning_key in ["reasoning_content", "reasoning"] {
                 if let Some(text) = delta.get(reasoning_key).and_then(Value::as_str)
                     && !text.is_empty()
@@ -115,6 +107,14 @@ fn decode_openai_chat_stream(
                     });
                 }
             }
+            if let Some(text) = delta.get("content").and_then(Value::as_str)
+                && !text.is_empty()
+            {
+                out.push(LlmResponseChunk::TextDelta {
+                    index: 0,
+                    text: text.to_string(),
+                });
+            }
             if let Some(tool_calls) = delta.get("tool_calls").and_then(Value::as_array) {
                 for tool_call in tool_calls {
                     if let Some(tool_call) = tool_call.as_object() {
diff --git a/crates/switchyard-translation/tests/stream_translation.rs b/crates/switchyard-translation/tests/stream_translation.rs
index 3aeed7159..d1abc6cc9 100644
--- a/crates/switchyard-translation/tests/stream_translation.rs
+++ b/crates/switchyard-translation/tests/stream_translation.rs
@@ -303,6 +303,84 @@ fn openai_chat_stream_event_translates_to_anthropic_message_events() -> TestResu
     Ok(())
 }
 
+// A mixed chunk must emit reasoning before text, matching the buffered decoder.
+#[test]
+fn openai_chat_mixed_reasoning_and_content_stream_in_reasoning_first_order() -> TestResult {
+    let engine = TranslationEngine::default();
+    let mut state =
+        StreamTranslationState::new(WireFormat::OpenAiChat, WireFormat::AnthropicMessages);
+    let chunk = json!({
+        "id": "chatcmpl-test",
+        "object": "chat.completion.chunk",
+        "model": "nvidia/nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-nvfp4",
+        "choices": [{
+            "index": 0,
+            "delta": {
+                "reasoning_content": ".",
+                "content": "Hello"
+            },
+            "finish_reason": null
+        }]
+    });
+
+    let events = engine.translate_event(
+        &mut state,
+        WireFormat::OpenAiChat,
+        WireFormat::AnthropicMessages,
+        &chunk,
+    )?;
+
+    assert_eq!(
+        events,
+        vec![
+            json!({
+                "type": "message_start",
+                "message": {
+                    "id": "msg_chatcmpl-test",
+                    "type": "message",
+                    "role": "assistant",
+                    "model": "nvidia/nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-nvfp4",
+                    "content": [],
+                    "stop_reason": null,
+                    "stop_sequence": null,
+                    "usage": {"input_tokens": 0, "output_tokens": 0}
+                }
+            }),
+            json!({
+                "type": "content_block_start",
+                "index": 0,
+                "content_block": {
+                    "type": "thinking",
+                    "thinking": "",
+                    "signature": ""
+                }
+            }),
+            json!({
+                "type": "content_block_delta",
+                "index": 0,
+                "delta": {"type": "thinking_delta", "thinking": "."}
+            }),
+            json!({
+                "type": "content_block_delta",
+                "index": 0,
+                "delta": {"type": "signature_delta", "signature": ""}
+            }),
+            json!({"type": "content_block_stop", "index": 0}),
+            json!({
+                "type": "content_block_start",
+                "index": 1,
+                "content_block": {"type": "text", "text": ""}
+            }),
+            json!({
+                "type": "content_block_delta",
+                "index": 1,
+                "delta": {"type": "text_delta", "text": "Hello"}
+            }),
+        ]
+    );
+    Ok(())
+}
+
 // Verifies Anthropic usage and stop events become terminal OpenAI chunks.
 #[test]
 fn anthropic_stream_usage_and_stop_translate_to_openai_chunks() -> TestResult {