diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 2cf87c2f9..0666ac8a2 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "qdrant-client~=1.12.0",
     "opensearch-py==2.8.0",
     "playwright==1.49.1",
+    "elasticsearch==8.17.1",
 
     "transformers",
     "sentence-transformers==3.3.1",