diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/openai/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/openai/default.nix
index cfc719e13666..8aa091a25c71 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/openai/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/openai/default.nix
@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
 { lib
 , buildPythonPackage
 , fetchFromGitHub
+, aiohttp
 , matplotlib
 , numpy
 , openpyxl
 , pandas
 , pandas-stubs
 , plotly
+, pytest-asyncio
 , pytest-mock
 , pytestCheckHook
 , pythonOlder
@@ -16,11 +18,12 @@
 , tqdm
 , typing-extensions
 , wandb
+, withOptionalDependencies ? false
 }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "openai";
-  version = "0.25.0";
+  version = "0.26.1";
   format = "setuptools";
 
   disabled = pythonOlder "3.7.1";
@@ -29,29 +32,35 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     owner = "openai";
     repo = "openai-python";
     rev = "v${version}";
-    hash = "sha256-bwv7lpdDYlk+y3KBjv7cSvaGr3v02riNCUfPFh6yv1I=";
+    hash = "sha256-M6ZaYTOBAwLogWPafSnBYw3rUry+sS9VwQWAM9tDfr8=";
   };
 
   propagatedBuildInputs = [
-    numpy
-    openpyxl
-    pandas
-    pandas-stubs
+    aiohttp
     requests
     tqdm
+  ] ++ lib.optionals (pythonOlder "3.8") [
     typing-extensions
-  ];
+  ] ++ lib.optionals withOptionalDependencies (builtins.attrValues {
+    inherit (passthru.optional-dependencies) embeddings wandb;
+  });
 
   passthru.optional-dependencies = {
-    wandb = [
-      wandb
+    datalib = [
+      numpy
+      openpyxl
+      pandas
+      pandas-stubs
     ];
     embeddings = [
       matplotlib
       plotly
       scikit-learn
       tenacity
-    ];
+    ] ++ passthru.optional-dependencies.datalib;
+    wandb = [
+      wandb
+    ] ++ passthru.optional-dependencies.datalib;
   };
 
   pythonImportsCheck = [
@@ -60,6 +69,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
 
   nativeCheckInputs = [
     pytestCheckHook
+    pytest-asyncio
     pytest-mock
   ];
 
@@ -72,6 +82,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
   disabledTestPaths = [
     # Requires a real API key
     "openai/tests/test_endpoints.py"
+    "openai/tests/asyncio/test_endpoints.py"
     # openai: command not found
     "openai/tests/test_file_cli.py"
     "openai/tests/test_long_examples_validator.py"