diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 06e38b226..fa9c9ed6b 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ pluggy ~= 1.7
 litellm>=1.106.2
 # Used today for LLMSettings (model/LLMSettings.py); transitively pulled by litellm but pinned explicitly
 # so the validation/typing layer doesn't disappear if litellm drops it.
-pydantic>=2.14.0,<3.0
+pydantic>=2.14.1,<3.0
 # BM25 relevance trimming for large snapshots (pure Python, no ML)
 rank-bm25>=0.2.2