diff --git a/litellm-rust/Cargo.toml b/litellm-rust/Cargo.toml
index fdc5f5efde1..22ca11d16d2 100644
--- a/litellm-rust/Cargo.toml
+++ b/litellm-rust/Cargo.toml
@@ -15,7 +15,9 @@ repository = "https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm"
 litellm-core = { path = "crates/core" }
 litellm-providers = { path = "crates/providers" }
 pyo3 = "0.23.5"
-reqwest = { version = "0.12", default-features = false, features = ["blocking", "json", "rustls-tls"] }
+pyo3-async-runtimes = { version = "0.23", features = ["tokio-runtime"] }
+reqwest = { version = "0.12", default-features = false, features = ["json", "rustls-tls"] }
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1.0"
 thiserror = "2.0"
+tokio = { version = "1", features = ["rt-multi-thread"] }