diff --git a/recipes/qwen3-vl-32b-fp8/model-cache/model-download.yaml b/recipes/qwen3-vl-32b-fp8/model-cache/model-download.yaml
index 4e9c850b802d..b8ddb250ba7e 100644
--- a/recipes/qwen3-vl-32b-fp8/model-cache/model-download.yaml
+++ b/recipes/qwen3-vl-32b-fp8/model-cache/model-download.yaml
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ spec:
           args:
             - |
               set -eux
-              pip install --no-cache-dir huggingface_hub==1.11.0
+              pip install --no-cache-dir huggingface_hub==1.16.4
               hf download $MODEL_NAME --revision $MODEL_REVISION
           volumeMounts:
             - name: model-cache