diff --git a/requirements/base.txt b/requirements/base.txt
index a52c2aa..cf60de6 100644
--- a/requirements/base.txt
+++ b/requirements/base.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 #------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 httpx>=0.27,<1                          # HTTP client, and Server-Sent Events streaming
-pydantic>=2.14.0,<3                        # response and manifest models
+pydantic>=2.14.1,<3                        # response and manifest models
 pydantic-settings>=2.3,<3               # SMARTER_* environment variables
 PyYAML>=6.0,<7                          # YAML manifests, and the smarter cli's config.yaml
 email-validator>=2.0,<3                 # the SAM models' EmailStr fields (pydantic[email])