diff --git a/requirements/_requirements.txt b/requirements/_requirements.txt
index 89bc2fb8db..605d16e4c1 100644
--- a/requirements/_requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements/_requirements.txt
@@ -36,4 +36,4 @@ pytest>=8.0.0,<9.0.0  # this is not a joke, sam2 requires this as the fork we ar
 tokenizers>=0.19.0,<=0.20.3
 slack-sdk~=3.33.4
 twilio~=9.3.7
-httpx~=0.25.1  # must be pinned as bc in 0.28.0 is causing Antropics to fail
+httpx>=0.25.1,<0.28.0  # must be pinned as bc in 0.28.0 is causing Antropics to fail
diff --git a/requirements/requirements.test.unit.txt b/requirements/requirements.test.unit.txt
index aaf0585aa8..374aea88cf 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements.test.unit.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements.test.unit.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ requests-mock==1.11.0
 rich
 pytest-asyncio<=0.21.1
 pytest-timeout>=2.2.0
-httpx~=0.25.1
+httpx>=0.25.1,<0.28.0
 uvicorn<=0.22.0
 aioresponses>=0.7.6
 supervision>=0.21.0,<=0.22.0
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