diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index fd1798d36..d032fb0c8 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ dependencies = [
     # Core Dependencies
     "pydantic>=2.4.2",
     "openai>=1.13.3",
-    "litellm>=1.44.22",
+    "litellm==1.57.4",
     "instructor>=1.3.3",
 
     # Text Processing
diff --git a/src/crewai/utilities/llm_utils.py b/src/crewai/utilities/llm_utils.py
index 56a672202..13230edf6 100644
--- a/src/crewai/utilities/llm_utils.py
+++ b/src/crewai/utilities/llm_utils.py
@@ -1,11 +1,7 @@
 import os
 from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional, Union
 
-from packaging import version
-
 from crewai.cli.constants import DEFAULT_LLM_MODEL, ENV_VARS, LITELLM_PARAMS
-from crewai.cli.utils import read_toml
-from crewai.cli.version import get_crewai_version
 from crewai.llm import LLM
 
 
diff --git a/uv.lock b/uv.lock
index 6c2387dd2..56ed758df 100644
--- a/uv.lock
+++ b/uv.lock
@@ -720,7 +720,7 @@ requires-dist = [
     { name = "instructor", specifier = ">=1.3.3" },
     { name = "json-repair", specifier = ">=0.25.2" },
     { name = "jsonref", specifier = ">=1.1.0" },
-    { name = "litellm", specifier = ">=1.44.22" },
+    { name = "litellm", specifier = "==1.57.4" },
     { name = "mem0ai", marker = "extra == 'mem0'", specifier = ">=0.1.29" },
     { name = "openai", specifier = ">=1.13.3" },
     { name = "openpyxl", specifier = ">=3.1.5" },
@@ -2344,24 +2344,24 @@ wheels = [
 
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-version = "1.50.2"
+version = "1.57.4"
 source = { registry = "https://pypi.org/simple" }
 dependencies = [
     { name = "aiohttp" },
     { name = "click" },
+    { name = "httpx" },
     { name = "importlib-metadata" },
     { name = "jinja2" },
     { name = "jsonschema" },
     { name = "openai" },
     { name = "pydantic" },
     { name = "python-dotenv" },
-    { name = "requests" },
     { name = "tiktoken" },
     { name = "tokenizers" },
 ]
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@@ -3155,7 +3155,7 @@ wheels = [
 
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-version = "1.52.1"
+version = "1.59.6"
 source = { registry = "https://pypi.org/simple" }
 dependencies = [
     { name = "anyio" },
@@ -3167,9 +3167,9 @@ dependencies = [
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     { name = "typing-extensions" },
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