diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index af8e050fa82..3254ae2e2d0 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ jinja2 = "^3.1.2"
 aiohttp = "*"
 requests = "^2.31.0"
 pydantic = "^2.0.0"
-cachetools = ">=5.3.1"
 ijson = "*"
 
 uvicorn = {version = "^0.22.0", optional = true}
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 4549ea0106d..fbf2bfc1d12 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ jinja2==3.1.4 # for prompt templates
 certifi==2023.7.22 # [TODO] clean up 
 aiohttp==3.9.0 # for network calls
 aioboto3==12.3.0 # for async sagemaker calls
-cachetools==5.3.1 # for in memory caching
 tenacity==8.2.3  # for retrying requests, when litellm.num_retries set
 pydantic==2.7.1 # proxy + openai req.
 ijson==3.2.3 # for google ai studio streaming