diff --git a/litellm/batches/batch_utils.py b/litellm/batches/batch_utils.py
index 52b7c74412b..ab6d39dd4af 100644
--- a/litellm/batches/batch_utils.py
+++ b/litellm/batches/batch_utils.py
@@ -7,13 +7,11 @@ from typing import Any, Final, Literal
 
 import litellm
 from litellm._logging import verbose_logger
-from litellm.litellm_core_utils.get_litellm_params import (
-    ANTHROPIC_WIF_KWARGS_KEYS,
-    AWS_CREDENTIAL_KWARGS_KEYS,
-)
+from litellm.litellm_core_utils.get_litellm_params import AWS_CREDENTIAL_KWARGS_KEYS
 from litellm.litellm_core_utils.llm_cost_calc.utils import parse_prompt_tokens_details
 from litellm.types.llms.openai import Batch
 from litellm.types.utils import CallTypes, ModelInfo, Usage
+from litellm.types.workload_identity import ANTHROPIC_WIF_KWARGS_KEYS
 from litellm.utils import token_counter
 
 
diff --git a/litellm/litellm_core_utils/get_litellm_params.py b/litellm/litellm_core_utils/get_litellm_params.py
index 7fbab6e59ee..9a592665376 100644
--- a/litellm/litellm_core_utils/get_litellm_params.py
+++ b/litellm/litellm_core_utils/get_litellm_params.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ from types import MappingProxyType
 from typing import Final
 
 from litellm.llms.openai.data_residency import infer_openai_data_residency
+from litellm.types.workload_identity import ANTHROPIC_WIF_KWARGS_KEYS, OPENAI_WIF_KWARGS_KEYS
 
 AWS_CREDENTIAL_KWARGS_KEYS: Final = frozenset(
     {
@@ -24,48 +25,6 @@ AWS_CREDENTIAL_KWARGS_KEYS: Final = frozenset(
 # The per-deployment Rust opt-in.
 RUST_KWARG_KEY: Final = "rust"
 
-# Anthropic workload identity federation config, read from litellm_params by the
-# Anthropic auth tier. Registered like `rust`: here so the kwargs funnel carries
-# them, and in `all_litellm_params` so they never leak into the provider body.
-ANTHROPIC_WIF_KWARGS_KEYS: Final = frozenset(
-    {
-        "anthropic_federation_rule_id",
-        "anthropic_organization_id",
-        "anthropic_service_account_id",
-        "anthropic_workspace_id",
-        "anthropic_identity_token_file",
-        "anthropic_identity_token",
-        # Identity-source selection (Phase 1): absent means the legacy
-        # token_file/env resolver above, byte-identical to today.
-        "anthropic_identity_source",
-        # internal_issuer: litellm self-signs the workload assertion.
-        "anthropic_issuer_url",
-        "anthropic_issuer_subject",
-        "anthropic_issuer_audience",
-        "anthropic_issuer_ttl_seconds",
-        "anthropic_issuer_signing_key_ref",
-        # keycloak: litellm fetches the assertion via client_credentials.
-        "anthropic_keycloak_token_url",
-        "anthropic_keycloak_client_id",
-        "anthropic_keycloak_auth_method",
-        "anthropic_keycloak_client_secret_ref",
-        "anthropic_keycloak_scope",
-        # Set server-side when a client redirects api_base, to stop a federated deployment minting
-        # for a base the caller chose. It has to ride this funnel or it is dropped on the way and
-        # the deployment federates anyway; being carried here also request-bans it, which is right,
-        # since a caller must not be able to set it in either direction.
-        "anthropic_disable_workload_identity_federation",
-    }
-)
-
-OPENAI_WIF_KWARGS_KEYS: Final = frozenset(
-    {
-        "openai_identity_provider_id",
-        "openai_service_account_id",
-        "openai_identity_token_file",
-    }
-)
-
 # Keys `completion()` forwards from its own kwargs into `get_litellm_params`,
 # which are otherwise invisible to it because that call site passes explicit
 # named arguments rather than `**kwargs`.
diff --git a/litellm/llms/anthropic/wif.py b/litellm/llms/anthropic/wif.py
index 97dd5014caa..e9ef47da59c 100644
--- a/litellm/llms/anthropic/wif.py
+++ b/litellm/llms/anthropic/wif.py
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ _IDENTITY_TOKEN_FILE_PARAM: Final = "anthropic_identity_token_file"
 _IDENTITY_TOKEN_PARAM: Final = "anthropic_identity_token"
 
 # litellm_params key -> InternalIssuerSource/KeycloakSource field name. Every key here must
-# also be listed in ANTHROPIC_WIF_KWARGS_KEYS (get_litellm_params.py), which is what makes it
+# also be listed in ANTHROPIC_WIF_KWARGS_KEYS (types/workload_identity.py), which is what makes it
 # request-banned and cleared on a client-redirected api_base -- see types/utils.py's
 # anthropic_wif_litellm_params, derived from that same set.
 _INTERNAL_ISSUER_FIELD_MAP: Final[Mapping[str, str]] = MappingProxyType(
diff --git a/litellm/llms/openai/responses/transformation.py b/litellm/llms/openai/responses/transformation.py
index 110e359f4af..89b5de62f9e 100644
--- a/litellm/llms/openai/responses/transformation.py
+++ b/litellm/llms/openai/responses/transformation.py
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ from typing_extensions import ReadOnly, TypedDict
 import litellm
 from litellm._logging import verbose_logger
 from litellm.litellm_core_utils.core_helpers import process_response_headers
-from litellm.litellm_core_utils.get_litellm_params import OPENAI_WIF_KWARGS_KEYS
 from litellm.litellm_core_utils.llm_response_utils.convert_dict_to_response import (
     _safe_convert_created_field,
 )
@@ -24,6 +23,7 @@ from litellm.types.llms.openai import *
 from litellm.types.responses.main import *
 from litellm.types.router import GenericLiteLLMParams
 from litellm.types.utils import LlmProviders
+from litellm.types.workload_identity import OPENAI_WIF_KWARGS_KEYS
 
 from ..common_utils import OpenAIError
 from ..workload_identity import get_workload_identity_bearer_token, resolve_openai_workload_identity_config
diff --git a/litellm/types/utils.py b/litellm/types/utils.py
index 1142b8263f4..0d5b794b507 100644
--- a/litellm/types/utils.py
+++ b/litellm/types/utils.py
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ from litellm.types.llms.base import (
     LiteLLMPydanticObjectBase,
 )
 from litellm.types.mcp import MCPServerCostInfo
+from litellm.types.workload_identity import ANTHROPIC_WIF_KWARGS_KEYS, OPENAI_WIF_KWARGS_KEYS
 
 from ..litellm_core_utils.core_helpers import map_finish_reason, process_response_headers
 from .agents import LiteLLMSendMessageResponse
@@ -3643,20 +3644,6 @@ bedrock_batch_litellm_params: Final = (
     "bedrock_tags",
 )
 
-# Anthropic workload identity federation config, read from litellm_params by the
-# Anthropic auth tier. Listed for the same reason as the fields above: an
-# unrecognized top-level key is swept into extra_body and sent to /v1/messages.
-# Derived from get_litellm_params.ANTHROPIC_WIF_KWARGS_KEYS (not hand-typed) so the
-# request-body ban list and the clear-on-api_base-override list can never drift from
-# the set the kwargs funnel actually forwards. Imported here rather than at module top:
-# get_litellm_params.py's own import chain (llms/openai/data_residency -> llms/__init__)
-# reaches back into this module for CallTypes, which by this point in the file is
-# already bound on the partially-initialized module.
-from ..litellm_core_utils.get_litellm_params import (  # noqa: E402  # deferred past CallTypes to break the import cycle
-    ANTHROPIC_WIF_KWARGS_KEYS,
-    OPENAI_WIF_KWARGS_KEYS,
-)
-
 anthropic_wif_litellm_params: Final = tuple(sorted(ANTHROPIC_WIF_KWARGS_KEYS))
 openai_wif_litellm_params: Final = tuple(sorted(OPENAI_WIF_KWARGS_KEYS))
 server_owned_wif_litellm_params: Final = anthropic_wif_litellm_params + openai_wif_litellm_params
diff --git a/litellm/types/workload_identity.py b/litellm/types/workload_identity.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..26362a7e442
--- /dev/null
+++ b/litellm/types/workload_identity.py
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+"""litellm_params keys that configure workload identity federation.
+
+The kwargs funnel (``litellm_core_utils.get_litellm_params``) and the request-body ban list
+(``types.utils.all_litellm_params``) both derive from these sets, so they live in a module with
+no litellm imports that either side can reach without a cycle. Every key here rides the funnel
+into ``litellm_params`` and is banned from request bodies, which also covers
+``anthropic_disable_workload_identity_federation``: the proxy sets it when a client redirects
+``api_base`` so a federated deployment stops minting for a base the caller chose, and a caller
+must not be able to set it in either direction.
+"""
+
+from typing import Final
+
+ANTHROPIC_WIF_KWARGS_KEYS: Final = frozenset(
+    {
+        "anthropic_federation_rule_id",
+        "anthropic_organization_id",
+        "anthropic_service_account_id",
+        "anthropic_workspace_id",
+        "anthropic_identity_token_file",
+        "anthropic_identity_token",
+        "anthropic_identity_source",
+        "anthropic_issuer_url",
+        "anthropic_issuer_subject",
+        "anthropic_issuer_audience",
+        "anthropic_issuer_ttl_seconds",
+        "anthropic_issuer_signing_key_ref",
+        "anthropic_keycloak_token_url",
+        "anthropic_keycloak_client_id",
+        "anthropic_keycloak_auth_method",
+        "anthropic_keycloak_client_secret_ref",
+        "anthropic_keycloak_scope",
+        "anthropic_disable_workload_identity_federation",
+    }
+)
+
+OPENAI_WIF_KWARGS_KEYS: Final = frozenset(
+    {
+        "openai_identity_provider_id",
+        "openai_service_account_id",
+        "openai_identity_token_file",
+    }
+)
diff --git a/tests/test_litellm/litellm_core_utils/test_get_litellm_params.py b/tests/test_litellm/litellm_core_utils/test_get_litellm_params.py
index ad4e417a29f..0ad3e3afa24 100644
--- a/tests/test_litellm/litellm_core_utils/test_get_litellm_params.py
+++ b/tests/test_litellm/litellm_core_utils/test_get_litellm_params.py
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ class TestAnthropicWifIdentitySourceKeys:
         """Fails the moment a key is added to ANTHROPIC_WIF_KWARGS_KEYS without a matching entry
         here (or vice versa), catching drift between what wif.py dispatches on and what this
         test (and the funnel/provider-body tests below) actually exercises."""
-        from litellm.litellm_core_utils.get_litellm_params import ANTHROPIC_WIF_KWARGS_KEYS
+        from litellm.types.workload_identity import ANTHROPIC_WIF_KWARGS_KEYS
 
         assert set(self.NEW_KEYS) == ANTHROPIC_WIF_KWARGS_KEYS - set(TestAnthropicWifKeys.SIX_KEYS)
 
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ class TestOpenAIWifKeys:
     }
 
     def test_keys_are_exactly_the_registered_set(self):
-        from litellm.litellm_core_utils.get_litellm_params import OPENAI_WIF_KWARGS_KEYS
+        from litellm.types.workload_identity import OPENAI_WIF_KWARGS_KEYS
 
         assert set(self.THREE_KEYS) == OPENAI_WIF_KWARGS_KEYS
 
diff --git a/tests/test_litellm/proxy/auth/test_auth_utils.py b/tests/test_litellm/proxy/auth/test_auth_utils.py
index f5c7ac713c1..87e4bcc8191 100644
--- a/tests/test_litellm/proxy/auth/test_auth_utils.py
+++ b/tests/test_litellm/proxy/auth/test_auth_utils.py
@@ -31,16 +31,13 @@ from litellm.proxy.auth.auth_utils import (
 
 def test_every_server_owned_wif_kwarg_key_is_request_banned():
     """server_owned_wif_litellm_params (types/utils.py) is derived from ANTHROPIC_WIF_KWARGS_KEYS
-    and OPENAI_WIF_KWARGS_KEYS (get_litellm_params.py) precisely so a new WIF field can never be
+    and OPENAI_WIF_KWARGS_KEYS (types/workload_identity.py) precisely so a new WIF field can never be
     added to the kwargs funnel
     without automatically joining the request-body ban list; this guards that invariant itself,
     independent of today's field count, so it fails if the derivation is ever reverted to a
     hand-typed list that drifts."""
-    from litellm.litellm_core_utils.get_litellm_params import (
-        ANTHROPIC_WIF_KWARGS_KEYS,
-        OPENAI_WIF_KWARGS_KEYS,
-    )
     from litellm.proxy.auth.auth_utils import _SERVER_OWNED_WIF_UNCONDITIONAL_BANNED
+    from litellm.types.workload_identity import ANTHROPIC_WIF_KWARGS_KEYS, OPENAI_WIF_KWARGS_KEYS
 
     assert ANTHROPIC_WIF_KWARGS_KEYS | OPENAI_WIF_KWARGS_KEYS == set(_SERVER_OWNED_WIF_UNCONDITIONAL_BANNED)
 
diff --git a/tests/test_litellm/test_lazy_imports.py b/tests/test_litellm/test_lazy_imports.py
index 09d5e23e2e6..a1b07155304 100644
--- a/tests/test_litellm/test_lazy_imports.py
+++ b/tests/test_litellm/test_lazy_imports.py
@@ -69,9 +69,7 @@ def _verify_only_requested_name_imported(name: str, all_names: tuple):
     litellm_globals = sys.modules["litellm"].__dict__
     for other_name in all_names:
         if other_name != name:
-            assert (
-                other_name not in litellm_globals
-            ), f"{other_name} should not be imported when importing {name}"
+            assert other_name not in litellm_globals, f"{other_name} should not be imported when importing {name}"
 
 
 def _verify_only_requested_name_imported_in_utils(name: str, all_names: tuple):
@@ -80,9 +78,7 @@ def _verify_only_requested_name_imported_in_utils(name: str, all_names: tuple):
     utils_globals = sys.modules["litellm.utils"].__dict__
     for other_name in all_names:
         if other_name != name:
-            assert (
-                other_name not in utils_globals
-            ), f"{other_name} should not be imported when importing {name}"
+            assert other_name not in utils_globals, f"{other_name} should not be imported when importing {name}"
 
 
 def test_cost_calculator_lazy_imports():
@@ -394,6 +390,17 @@ def test_proxy_private_submodule_resolves_in_fresh_process():
     assert result.stdout.strip() == "litellm.proxy._types"
 
 
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "module",
+    ["litellm.litellm_core_utils.get_litellm_params", "litellm.batches.batch_utils", "litellm.types.utils"],
+)
+def test_kwargs_funnel_and_its_importers_load_first_in_fresh_process(module: str):
+    """With `import litellm` lazy, these modules are often the first to pull in litellm.types.utils, and
+    the WIF key sets shared between the funnel and all_litellm_params must not turn that into a cycle."""
+    result = subprocess.run([sys.executable, "-c", f"import {module}"], capture_output=True, text=True)
+    assert result.returncode == 0, result.stderr
+
+
 def test_lazy_instances_are_singletons():
     """Lazily created instances are cached, so repeated access returns the same object."""
     assert litellm._key_management_settings is litellm._key_management_settings