diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/ml/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/ml/action/TransportUpgradeJobModelSnapshotAction.java b/x-pack/plugin/ml/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/ml/action/TransportUpgradeJobModelSnapshotAction.java
index c5ab84d277a0d..bebbea11fb52c 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/ml/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/ml/action/TransportUpgradeJobModelSnapshotAction.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/ml/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/ml/action/TransportUpgradeJobModelSnapshotAction.java
@@ -48,7 +48,6 @@
 import org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.ml.job.results.Result;
 import org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.ml.job.snapshot.upgrade.SnapshotUpgradeTaskParams;
 import org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.ml.utils.ExceptionsHelper;
-import org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.ml.utils.TransportVersionUtils;
 import org.elasticsearch.xpack.ml.MachineLearning;
 import org.elasticsearch.xpack.ml.job.persistence.JobConfigProvider;
 import org.elasticsearch.xpack.ml.job.persistence.JobResultsProvider;
@@ -112,7 +111,7 @@ protected void masterOperation(Task task, Request request, ClusterState state, A
             return;
         }
 
-        if (TransportVersionUtils.isMinTransportVersionSameAsCurrent(state) == false) {
+        if (state.nodes().getMinNodeVersion().equals(state.nodes().getMaxNodeVersion()) == false) {
             listener.onFailure(
                 ExceptionsHelper.conflictStatusException(
                     "Cannot upgrade job [{}] snapshot [{}] while cluster upgrade is in progress.",
diff --git a/x-pack/qa/rolling-upgrade/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/upgrades/MlJobSnapshotUpgradeIT.java b/x-pack/qa/rolling-upgrade/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/upgrades/MlJobSnapshotUpgradeIT.java
index 79f42244b37c2..9d4277de21471 100644
--- a/x-pack/qa/rolling-upgrade/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/upgrades/MlJobSnapshotUpgradeIT.java
+++ b/x-pack/qa/rolling-upgrade/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/upgrades/MlJobSnapshotUpgradeIT.java
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 package org.elasticsearch.upgrades;
 
 import org.elasticsearch.ElasticsearchException;
+import org.elasticsearch.Version;
 import org.elasticsearch.client.Request;
 import org.elasticsearch.client.RequestOptions;
 import org.elasticsearch.client.Response;
@@ -74,6 +75,10 @@ public void testSnapshotUpgrader() throws Exception {
             case OLD -> createJobAndSnapshots();
             case MIXED -> {
                 assumeTrue("We should only test if old cluster is before new cluster", isOriginalClusterCurrent() == false);
+                assumeTrue(
+                    "Older versions could not always reliably determine if we were in a mixed cluster state",
+                    Version.fromString(UPGRADE_FROM_VERSION).after(Version.V_8_18_9)
+                );
                 ensureHealth((request -> {
                     request.addParameter("timeout", "70s");
                     request.addParameter("wait_for_nodes", "3");
@@ -97,13 +102,6 @@ public void testSnapshotUpgrader() throws Exception {
 
     @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
     private void testSnapshotUpgradeFailsOnMixedCluster() throws Exception {
-        // TODO the mixed cluster assertions sometimes fail because the code that
-        // detects the mixed cluster relies on the transport versions being different.
-        // This assumption does not hold immediately after a version bump and new
-        // branch being cut as the new branch will have the same transport version
-        // See https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/98560
-
-        assumeTrue("The mixed cluster is not always detected correctly, see https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/98560", false);
         Map<String, Object> jobs = entityAsMap(getJob(JOB_ID));
 
         String currentSnapshot = ((List<String>) XContentMapValues.extractValue("jobs.model_snapshot_id", jobs)).get(0);