diff --git a/misc/py-litellm/Makefile b/misc/py-litellm/Makefile
index eaa4972f522f..dcf1366ac008 100644
--- a/misc/py-litellm/Makefile
+++ b/misc/py-litellm/Makefile
@@ -1,49 +1,48 @@
 PORTNAME=	litellm
-DISTVERSION=	1.55.9
+DISTVERSION=	1.56.4
 CATEGORIES=	misc python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	tagattie@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Call all LLM APIs using the OpenAI format
 WWW=		https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}poetry-core>0:devel/py-poetry-core@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
-RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}httpx>=0.23.0<0.28.0:www/py-httpx@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}httpx>=0.23.0<1.0.0:www/py-httpx@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}openai>=1.55.3:misc/py-openai@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}python-dotenv>=0.2.0:www/py-python-dotenv@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}tiktoken>=0.7.0:textproc/py-tiktoken@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}importlib-metadata>=6.8.0:devel/py-importlib-metadata@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}tokenizers>0:textproc/py-tokenizers@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}click>0:devel/py-click@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}Jinja2>=3.1.2<4.0.0:devel/py-Jinja2@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}aiohttp>0:www/py-aiohttp@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}requests>=2.31.0<3.0.0:www/py-requests@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pydantic2>=2.0.0<3.0.0:devel/py-pydantic2@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}jsonschema>=4.22.0<5.0.0:devel/py-jsonschema@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python shebangfix
 USE_PYTHON=	autoplist concurrent pep517
 
 REINPLACE_ARGS=	-i ''
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 PORTDOCS=	README.md
 
 OPTIONS_DEFINE=	DOCS
 
 post-patch:
 	@${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's|%%PYTHON_CMD%%|${PYTHON_CMD}|' \
 		${WRKSRC}/litellm/proxy/start.sh
 	@${FIND} ${WRKSRC}/litellm/proxy -type f \
 		\( -name '*.orig' -o -name '*.bak' \) -delete
 
 post-install-DOCS-on:
 	@${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}${DOCSDIR}
 	${INSTALL_MAN} ${PORTDOCS:S|^|${WRKSRC}/|} ${STAGEDIR}${DOCSDIR}
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/misc/py-litellm/distinfo b/misc/py-litellm/distinfo
index 205891aa6df5..aba485c01448 100644
--- a/misc/py-litellm/distinfo
+++ b/misc/py-litellm/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1735005168
-SHA256 (litellm-1.55.9.tar.gz) = 861be3447552db32da05abff8af4945d1dd84df2f4b10985f97120dca5c07a42
-SIZE (litellm-1.55.9.tar.gz) = 6203068
+TIMESTAMP = 1735627243
+SHA256 (litellm-1.56.4.tar.gz) = 2808ca21878d200f7676a3d11e5bf2b5e3349ae504628f279cd7297c7dbd2038
+SIZE (litellm-1.56.4.tar.gz) = 6284983
diff --git a/misc/py-litellm/files/patch-pyproject.toml b/misc/py-litellm/files/patch-pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6ad19ac96f63
--- /dev/null
+++ b/misc/py-litellm/files/patch-pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- pyproject.toml.orig	2024-12-31 06:42:16 UTC
++++ pyproject.toml
+@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ python = ">=3.8.1,<4.0, !=3.9.7"
+ 
+ [tool.poetry.dependencies]
+ python = ">=3.8.1,<4.0, !=3.9.7"
+-httpx = ">=0.23.0,<0.28.0"
++httpx = ">=0.23.0,<1.0.0"
+ openai = ">=1.55.3"
+ python-dotenv = ">=0.2.0"
+ tiktoken = ">=0.7.0"