diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 884fa66e..c0c5e7a9 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ python-telegram-bot>=21.0
 huggingface_hub[hf_xet]>=0.20.0
 tqdm>=4.65.0  # Progress bars for downloads
 openai>=1.12.0
-anthropic>=0.18.0
+anthropic>=0.116.0
 google-genai>=1.0.0  # new unified SDK; google-generativeai is EOL
 
 # Browser Automation (optional — run `playwright install --with-deps chromium` after pip install)