diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 1d69902..22d73a6 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 fastapi>=0.115.0,<1.0.0
 uvicorn[standard]>=0.30.0,<1.0.0
-transformers>=4.45.0,<5.0.0
+transformers>=5.14.1,<6.0.0
 safetensors>=0.4.0          # faster / safer model weight loading
 huggingface-hub>=0.25.0     # model download + caching
 tokenizers>=0.20.0          # Rust-backed tokenizer (required by DistilBERT)