diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/fastembed/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/fastembed/default.nix
index 65536d16151b..0302770761ed 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/fastembed/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/fastembed/default.nix
@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
 { lib
 , buildPythonPackage
 , fetchFromGitHub
+, huggingface-hub
 , pythonOlder
+, pythonRelaxDepsHook
 , poetry-core
+, onnx
 , onnxruntime
 , requests
 , tokenizers
@@ -13,7 +16,7 @@
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "fastembed";
   version = "0.1.2";
-  format = "pyproject";
+  pyproject = true;
 
   disabled = pythonOlder "3.8";
 
@@ -26,16 +29,25 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [
     poetry-core
+    pythonRelaxDepsHook
   ];
 
   propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    huggingface-hub
+    onnx
     onnxruntime
     requests
     tokenizers
     tqdm
   ];
 
-  pythonImportsCheck = [ "fastembed" ];
+  pythonImportsCheck = [
+    "fastembed"
+  ];
+
+  pythonRelaxDeps = [
+    "huggingface-hub"
+  ];
 
   nativeCheckInputs = [
     pytestCheckHook