diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 9d425ce..4a321f2 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ dependencies = [
     "tree-sitter-javascript>=0.25",
     "tree-sitter-typescript>=0.23.2",
     # Avoid celery[redis] → kombu[redis] pin redis<6.5; transport is in kombu.
-    # Cap <8 until kombu officially supports redis-py 8 (RESP3 defaults).
+    # Allow redis-py 8.x; keep <9 until we validate the next major.
     "celery>=5.6",
-    "redis>=7.4,<8",
+    "redis>=7.4,<9",
     "sqlalchemy>=2.0.51",
     "alembic>=1.19",
     "psycopg2-binary>=2.9.12",
diff --git a/src/analyzer/api/rate_limit.py b/src/analyzer/api/rate_limit.py
index 842e5ec..f787753 100644
--- a/src/analyzer/api/rate_limit.py
+++ b/src/analyzer/api/rate_limit.py
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ def rate_limit_analyze(
     redis_key = f"analyzer:ratelimit:{bucket}:{path}"
     try:
         count_raw = redis_client.eval(_INCR_EXPIRE_LUA, 1, redis_key, 60)
-        count = int(count_raw)  # type: ignore[arg-type]
+        count = int(count_raw)
         if count > limit:
             raise HTTPException(status_code=429, detail="rate limit exceeded")
     except redis.RedisError as e: