diff --git a/litellm-rust/Cargo.toml b/litellm-rust/Cargo.toml
index 4117bd5f6ac..fdc5f5efde1 100644
--- a/litellm-rust/Cargo.toml
+++ b/litellm-rust/Cargo.toml
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ 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"] }
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1.0"
 thiserror = "2.0"