diff --git a/runners/genlayer-py-std/poetry.lock b/runners/genlayer-py-std/poetry.lock
index 11854c98..f84f20fa 100644
--- a/runners/genlayer-py-std/poetry.lock
+++ b/runners/genlayer-py-std/poetry.lock
@@ -1289,19 +1289,19 @@ windows-terminal = ["colorama (>=0.4.6)"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "pytest"
-version = "8.4.1"
+version = "9.0.3"
 description = "pytest: simple powerful testing with Python"
 optional = false
-python-versions = ">=3.9"
+python-versions = ">=3.10"
 files = [
-    {file = "pytest-8.4.1-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:539c70ba6fcead8e78eebbf1115e8b589e7565830d7d006a8723f19ac8a0afb7"},
-    {file = "pytest-8.4.1.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:7c67fd69174877359ed9371ec3af8a3d2b04741818c51e5e99cc1742251fa93c"},
+    {file = "pytest-9.0.3-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:2c5efc453d45394fdd706ade797c0a81091eccd1d6e4bccfcd476e2b8e0ab5d9"},
+    {file = "pytest-9.0.3.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:b86ada508af81d19edeb213c681b1d48246c1a91d304c6c81a427674c17eb91c"},
 ]
 
 [package.dependencies]
 colorama = {version = ">=0.4", markers = "sys_platform == \"win32\""}
-iniconfig = ">=1"
-packaging = ">=20"
+iniconfig = ">=1.0.1"
+packaging = ">=22"
 pluggy = ">=1.5,<2"
 pygments = ">=2.7.2"
 
@@ -2037,4 +2037,4 @@ zstd = ["zstandard (>=0.18.0)"]
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = "^3.12"
-content-hash = "ea3bb9912c6217d8f113db6f8c17f6292f1be29e1bf0b0fccbf9463b06033150"
+content-hash = "418c7e916be2b514b91bea4c5d7796ec4b4b7d78b391353243c93353fc90f1a5"
diff --git a/runners/genlayer-py-std/pyproject.toml b/runners/genlayer-py-std/pyproject.toml
index 0cd31608..5926938f 100644
--- a/runners/genlayer-py-std/pyproject.toml
+++ b/runners/genlayer-py-std/pyproject.toml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ python = "^3.12"
 
 
 [tool.poetry.group.dev.dependencies]
-pytest = "^8.3.2"
+pytest = "^9.0.0"
 pytest-xdist = "^3.6.1"
 pytest-cov = "^6.0.0"
 sentence-transformers = "^3.2.1"