diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/huggingface-hub/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/huggingface-hub/default.nix
index 7f0f3155bbf8..a97b354d2a32 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/huggingface-hub/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/huggingface-hub/default.nix
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@
   safetensors,
   # hf_transfer
   hf-transfer,
+  # hf_xet
+  hf-xet,
   # fastai
   toml,
   fastai,
@@ -93,7 +95,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
       keras
     ];
     hf_xet = [
-      # hf-xet (unpackaged)
+      hf-xet
     ];
   };
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/transformers/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/transformers/default.nix
index b3da1a43d6d2..41b7db0a5dcc 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/transformers/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/transformers/default.nix
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@
   torchvision,
   av,
   sentencepiece,
+  hf-xet,
 }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
@@ -135,7 +136,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
         optax
       ];
       hf_xet = [
-        # hf-xet (unpackaged)
+        hf-xet
       ];
       tokenizers = [ tokenizers ];
       ftfy = [ ftfy ];