diff --git a/src/recommendationservice/requirements.in b/src/recommendationservice/requirements.in
index 084725c4..8d304799 100644
--- a/src/recommendationservice/requirements.in
+++ b/src/recommendationservice/requirements.in
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 google-api-core==2.11.0
 google-cloud-profiler==4.0.0
 grpcio-health-checking==1.51.1
-grpcio==1.51.1
+grpcio==1.81.1
 python-json-logger==2.0.4
-requests==2.28.1
+requests==2.34.2
 rsa==4.9
 protobuf==4.21.12 # transitive dependency, move when google-api is bumped safely
 opentelemetry-distro==0.36b0
diff --git a/src/recommendationservice/requirements.txt b/src/recommendationservice/requirements.txt
index 1624ce68..dfd53b87 100644
--- a/src/recommendationservice/requirements.txt
+++ b/src/recommendationservice/requirements.txt
@@ -1,14 +1,10 @@
-#
-# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.10
-# by the following command:
-#
-#    pip-compile --output-file=requirements.txt requirements.in
-#
+# This file was autogenerated by uv via the following command:
+#    uv pip compile requirements.in -o requirements.txt
 backoff==2.2.1
     # via opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc
 cachetools==5.2.0
     # via google-auth
-certifi==2022.12.7
+certifi==2026.5.20
     # via requests
 charset-normalizer==2.1.1
     # via requests
@@ -36,7 +32,7 @@ googleapis-common-protos==1.57.0
     # via
     #   google-api-core
     #   opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc
-grpcio==1.51.1
+grpcio==1.81.1
     # via
     #   -r requirements.in
     #   grpcio-health-checking
@@ -95,7 +91,7 @@ pyparsing==3.0.9
     # via httplib2
 python-json-logger==2.0.4
     # via -r requirements.in
-requests==2.28.1
+requests==2.34.2
     # via
     #   -r requirements.in
     #   google-api-core
@@ -104,12 +100,19 @@ rsa==4.9
     # via
     #   -r requirements.in
     #   google-auth
+setuptools==82.0.1
+    # via
+    #   opentelemetry-api
+    #   opentelemetry-instrumentation
+    #   opentelemetry-sdk
 six==1.16.0
     # via
     #   google-auth
     #   google-auth-httplib2
-typing-extensions==4.4.0
-    # via opentelemetry-sdk
+typing-extensions==4.15.0
+    # via
+    #   grpcio
+    #   opentelemetry-sdk
 uritemplate==4.1.1
     # via google-api-python-client
 urllib3==1.26.13
@@ -119,6 +122,3 @@ wrapt==1.14.1
     #   deprecated
     #   opentelemetry-instrumentation
     #   opentelemetry-instrumentation-grpc
-
-# The following packages are considered to be unsafe in a requirements file:
-# setuptools