diff --git a/apps/backend/requirements.txt b/apps/backend/requirements.txt
index a05e54a62d..13284ba7e0 100644
--- a/apps/backend/requirements.txt
+++ b/apps/backend/requirements.txt
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ concurrent-log-handler==0.9.29
 # Dependencies for blip
 timm==1.0.28
 # Dependencies for Moondream chat handler (llama-cpp-python multimodal)
-transformers==4.56.2
+transformers==5.0.0
 # Dependencies for mistral quantized and multimodal models like Moondream
 llama-cpp-python==0.3.34
 argon2-cffi==25.1.0