diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/elixir/1.14.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/elixir/1.14.nix
index 1b20938a6108..173941779e40 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/elixir/1.14.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/elixir/1.14.nix
@@ -5,4 +5,5 @@ mkDerivation {
   sha256 = "sha256-bCCTjFT+FG1hz+0H6k/izbCmi0JgO3Kkqc3LWWCs5Po=";
   # https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.14.5/compatibility-and-deprecations.html#compatibility-between-elixir-and-erlang-otp
   minimumOTPVersion = "23";
+  maximumOTPVersion = "26";
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/elixir/1.15.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/elixir/1.15.nix
index fe11d552a837..4ed8e67bb8e4 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/elixir/1.15.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/elixir/1.15.nix
@@ -4,5 +4,6 @@ mkDerivation {
   sha256 = "sha256-6GfZycylh+sHIuiQk/GQr1pRQRY1uBycSQdsVJ0J13k=";
   # https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.15.0/compatibility-and-deprecations.html#compatibility-between-elixir-and-erlang-otp
   minimumOTPVersion = "24";
+  maximumOTPVersion = "26";
   escriptPath = "lib/elixir/scripts/generate_app.escript";
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/elixir/1.16.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/elixir/1.16.nix
index fdd9dff12700..1fdb4094494e 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/elixir/1.16.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/elixir/1.16.nix
@@ -4,5 +4,6 @@ mkDerivation {
   sha256 = "sha256-WUBqoz3aQvBlSG3pTxGBpWySY7I0NUcDajQBgq5xYTU=";
   # https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.16.0/compatibility-and-deprecations.html#compatibility-between-elixir-and-erlang-otp
   minimumOTPVersion = "24";
+  maximumOTPVersion = "26";
   escriptPath = "lib/elixir/scripts/generate_app.escript";
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/elixir/generic-builder.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/elixir/generic-builder.nix
index 64582c98c45b..fb7d83c8cf42 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/elixir/generic-builder.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/elixir/generic-builder.nix
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
   version,
   erlang ? inputs.erlang,
   minimumOTPVersion,
+  maximumOTPVersion ? null,
   sha256 ? null,
   rev ? "v${version}",
   src ? fetchFromGitHub {
@@ -28,14 +29,37 @@
 
 let
   inherit (lib)
-    getVersion
-    versionAtLeast
-    optional
+    assertMsg
     concatStringsSep
+    getVersion
+    optional
+    optionalString
+    toInt
+    versions
+    versionAtLeast
+    versionOlder
     ;
 
+  compatibilityMsg = ''
+    Unsupported elixir and erlang OTP combination.
+
+    elixir ${version}
+    erlang OTP ${getVersion erlang} is not >= ${minimumOTPVersion} ${
+      optionalString (maximumOTPVersion != null) "and <= ${maximumOTPVersion}"
+    }
+
+    See https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/${version}/compatibility-and-deprecations.html
+  '';
+
+  maxShiftMajor = builtins.toString ((toInt (versions.major maximumOTPVersion)) + 1);
+  maxAssert =
+    if (maximumOTPVersion == null) then
+      true
+    else
+      versionOlder (versions.major (getVersion erlang)) maxShiftMajor;
 in
-assert versionAtLeast (getVersion erlang) minimumOTPVersion;
+assert assertMsg (versionAtLeast (getVersion erlang) minimumOTPVersion) compatibilityMsg;
+assert assertMsg maxAssert compatibilityMsg;
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation ({
   pname = "${baseName}";