diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 0c4048e863..ef50241037 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ dependencies = [
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     "cachetools>=5.5.0",
     "colorama>=0.4.0",
-    "eval-type-backport>=0.2.0",
     "httpx[brotli,http2,zstd]>=0.27.0",
     "more-itertools>=10.2.0",
     "psutil>=6.0.0",
@@ -93,6 +92,7 @@ crawlee = "crawlee._cli:cli"
 [dependency-groups]
 dev = [
     "build~=1.2.0",
+    "eval-type-backport~=0.2.0",  # can be removed when we drop support for Python 3.9
     "filelock~=3.17.0",
     "ipdb~=0.13.0",
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diff --git a/uv.lock b/uv.lock
index c83aa5c7f1..2f900f1676 100644
--- a/uv.lock
+++ b/uv.lock
@@ -587,14 +587,13 @@ toml = [
 
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-version = "0.6.4"
+version = "0.6.5"
 source = { editable = "." }
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     { name = "browserforge" },
     { name = "cachetools" },
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     { name = "more-itertools" },
     { name = "psutil" },
@@ -650,6 +649,7 @@ playwright = [
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+    { name = "eval-type-backport" },
     { name = "filelock" },
     { name = "ipdb" },
     { name = "mypy" },
@@ -685,7 +685,6 @@ requires-dist = [
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@@ -720,6 +719,7 @@ provides-extras = ["all", "adaptive-crawler", "beautifulsoup", "cli", "curl-impe
 [package.metadata.requires-dev]
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