diff --git a/.github/workflows/check-dependency-floors.yml b/.github/workflows/check-dependency-floors.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 8fc5b8564e..0000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/check-dependency-floors.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,117 +0,0 @@
-name: Check dependency floors
-
-on:
-  pull_request:
-    paths:
-      - 'pyproject.toml'
-      - '.github/workflows/check-dependency-floors.yml'
-  workflow_dispatch:
-
-permissions:
-  contents: read
-
-jobs:
-  resolve-and-import:
-    name: Install at lowest-direct + smoke-import litellm
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    timeout-minutes: 10
-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
-      matrix:
-        python-version: ["3.10", "3.13"]
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout PR
-        uses: actions/checkout@08eba0b27e820071cde6df949e0beb9ba4906955 # v4.3.0
-        with:
-          persist-credentials: false
-
-      - name: Set up uv
-        uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@37802adc94f370d6bfd71619e3f0bf239e1f3b78 # v7
-        with:
-          version: "0.10.9"
-          enable-cache: false
-
-      - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
-        run: uv python install ${{ matrix.python-version }}
-
-      - name: Resolve litellm core deps at floor versions
-        run: |
-          uv venv --python ${{ matrix.python-version }} /tmp/floor-venv
-          uv pip install --python /tmp/floor-venv/bin/python --resolution=lowest-direct .
-
-      - name: Smoke-import litellm at floor versions
-        run: |
-          /tmp/floor-venv/bin/python <<'PY'
-          import importlib
-
-          # Import the SDK itself.
-          import litellm  # noqa: F401
-
-          # Import every openai-namespace symbol the codebase actually uses
-          # at runtime. If a floor is set lower than the version that
-          # introduced any of these, the install will silently succeed and
-          # then fail at runtime in customer code. This list mirrors the
-          # openai imports under litellm/ — keep it in sync.
-          import openai  # noqa: F401
-          from openai import (  # noqa: F401
-              AsyncAzureOpenAI,
-              AsyncOpenAI,
-              AzureOpenAI,
-              OpenAI,
-              APIError,
-              APITimeoutError,
-              Omit,
-          )
-          from openai.types.responses import (  # noqa: F401
-              ResponseFunctionToolCall,
-              ResponseInputImageParam,
-              ResponseOutputMessage,
-              ResponseReasoningItem,
-          )
-          from openai.types.responses.response import (  # noqa: F401
-              IncompleteDetails,
-              Response,
-              ResponseOutputItem,
-              Tool,
-              ToolChoice,
-          )
-          from openai.types.responses.response_output_item import (  # noqa: F401
-              ResponseApplyPatchToolCall,
-          )
-          from openai.types.responses.response_text_config_param import (  # noqa: F401
-              ResponseTextConfigParam,
-          )
-          from openai.types.responses.tool_param import (  # noqa: F401
-              FunctionToolParam,
-          )
-
-          # Sanity-check the other direct deps load.
-          for mod in (
-              "pydantic",
-              "httpx",
-              "aiohttp",
-              "tokenizers",
-              "tiktoken",
-              "click",
-              "jinja2",
-              "jsonschema",
-              "importlib_metadata",
-              "fastuuid",
-              "dotenv",
-          ):
-              importlib.import_module(mod)
-
-          print("All floor-version imports OK")
-          PY
-
-      - name: Report resolved versions
-        if: always()
-        run: |
-          /tmp/floor-venv/bin/python -c "
-          from importlib.metadata import version
-          for pkg in ['litellm', 'openai', 'pydantic', 'httpx', 'aiohttp', 'tokenizers', 'tiktoken', 'click', 'jinja2', 'jsonschema', 'importlib-metadata', 'fastuuid', 'python-dotenv']:
-              try:
-                  print(f'{pkg}: {version(pkg)}')
-              except Exception as e:
-                  print(f'{pkg}: <not installed> ({e})')
-          "
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 67d23a6071..61229410ae 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -11,14 +11,15 @@ authors = [
 ]
 dependencies = [
     # Ranges (not exact pins) so SDK consumers can coexist with their other
-    # deps. Reproducibility for our Docker/CI comes from `uv.lock`. The
-    # `dependency-floors` CI job validates the floors actually install.
+    # deps. Reproducibility for our Docker/CI comes from `uv.lock`.
+    # When changing a floor, verify it installs + imports on every supported
+    # Python with: `uv pip install --resolution=lowest-direct .`
     "fastuuid>=0.14.0,<1.0",
     "httpx>=0.28.0,<1.0",
     "openai>=2.20.0,<3.0.0",
     "python-dotenv>=1.0.0,<2.0",
     "tiktoken>=0.8.0,<1.0",
-    "importlib-metadata>=8.0.0",
+    "importlib-metadata>=8.0.0,<9.0",
     "tokenizers>=0.21.0,<1.0",
     "click>=8.0.0,<9.0",
     "jinja2>=3.1.0,<4.0",
diff --git a/uv.lock b/uv.lock
index 008d7872ac..5c353772b0 100644
--- a/uv.lock
+++ b/uv.lock
@@ -3290,7 +3290,7 @@ requires-dist = [
     { name = "grpcio", marker = "extra == 'proxy-runtime'", specifier = "==1.78.0" },
     { name = "gunicorn", marker = "extra == 'proxy'", specifier = "==23.0.0" },
     { name = "httpx", specifier = ">=0.28.0,<1.0" },
-    { name = "importlib-metadata", specifier = ">=8.0.0" },
+    { name = "importlib-metadata", specifier = ">=8.0.0,<9.0" },
     { name = "jinja2", specifier = ">=3.1.0,<4.0" },
     { name = "jsonschema", specifier = ">=4.0.0,<5.0" },
     { name = "langfuse", marker = "extra == 'proxy-runtime'", specifier = "==2.59.7" },