diff --git a/license_cache.json b/license_cache.json
index a12a50c28f8..6043a0e9e0f 100644
--- a/license_cache.json
+++ b/license_cache.json
@@ -50,5 +50,5 @@
   "h11:0.16.0": "MIT",
   "requests-toolbelt:1.0.0": "Apache 2.0",
   "tornado:6.5.4": "Apache-2.0",
-  "granian:2.7.3": "BSD-3-Clause"
+  "granian:2.5.7": "BSD-3-Clause"
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index f62244dbdc3..148ac7e4276 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ dependencies = [
     "aiohttp==3.13.3",
     "pydantic==2.12.5",
     "jsonschema==4.23.0",
-    "granian==2.5.7",
 ]
 
 [project.urls]
@@ -36,6 +35,7 @@ Documentation = "https://docs.litellm.ai"
 proxy = [
     "gunicorn==23.0.0",
     "uvicorn==0.33.0",
+    "granian==2.5.7",
     "uvloop==0.21.0; sys_platform != 'win32'",
     "fastapi==0.124.4",
     "backoff==2.2.1",