diff --git a/scope_intel/requirements.txt b/scope_intel/requirements.txt
index d8d0e4d..6884a5c 100644
--- a/scope_intel/requirements.txt
+++ b/scope_intel/requirements.txt
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ requests>=2.32.3
 scikit-learn>=1.8.0
 numpy>=2.4.3
 pytest>=8.3.3
-gunicorn>=23.0.0
+gunicorn>=26.0.0
 # Response compression (Brotli + Gzip). Used by app.factory when
 # INTEL_COMPRESSION_ENABLED is set; the factory degrades gracefully when
 # this package is missing so tests without it still import cleanly.