diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index cd4c96eea..ea75bb8f2 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -18,8 +18,6 @@ pytest-random-order==1.1.0
 isort==5.12.0
 # For datetime mocking
 time-machine==2.9.0
-# fastapi testing
-httpx==0.24.0
 
 # Convert jupyter notebooks to markdown documents
 nbconvert==7.3.1
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index a07ef8897..6eecfb630 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ cryptography==40.0.2
 aiohttp==3.8.4
 SQLAlchemy==2.0.10
 python-telegram-bot==20.2
+# can't be hard-pinned due to telegram-bot pinning httpx with ~
+httpx>=0.23.3
 arrow==1.2.3
 cachetools==4.2.2
 requests==2.28.2