diff --git a/crates/rmcp/Cargo.toml b/crates/rmcp/Cargo.toml
index b9c0baa2..0579c6ac 100644
--- a/crates/rmcp/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/rmcp/Cargo.toml
@@ -54,7 +54,6 @@ process-wrap = { version = "9.0", features = ["tokio1"], optional = true }
 # tokio-tungstenite ={ version = "0.26", optional = true }
 
 # for http-server transport
-axum = { version = "0.8", features = [], optional = true }
 rand = { version = "0.9", optional = true }
 tokio-stream = { version = "0.1", optional = true }
 uuid = { version = "1", features = ["v4"], optional = true }
@@ -97,7 +96,6 @@ server-side-http = [
   "dep:http-body-util",
   "dep:bytes",
   "dep:sse-stream",
-  "dep:axum",
   "tower",
 ]
 
@@ -134,7 +132,7 @@ schemars = ["dep:schemars"]
 [dev-dependencies]
 tokio = { version = "1", features = ["full"] }
 schemars = { version = "1.1.0", features = ["chrono04"] }
-
+axum = { version = "0.8", default-features = false, features = ["http1", "tokio"] }
 anyhow = "1.0"
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = [
   "env-filter",