diff --git a/supplemental/search/fastembed-api/Dockerfile b/supplemental/search/fastembed-api/Dockerfile
index f83c1c1b3..c1e0ef51f 100644
--- a/supplemental/search/fastembed-api/Dockerfile
+++ b/supplemental/search/fastembed-api/Dockerfile
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ FROM python:3.9
 
 WORKDIR /code
 COPY fastembed-server.py /workdir/fastembed-server.py
+COPY requirements.txt /workdir/requirements.txt
 
-RUN pip install --no-cache-dir --upgrade fastembed fastapi uvicorn
+RUN pip install -r /workdir/requirements.txt
 
 CMD ["python", "/workdir/fastembed-server.py"]
diff --git a/supplemental/search/fastembed-api/requirements.txt b/supplemental/search/fastembed-api/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..db67a8402
--- /dev/null
+++ b/supplemental/search/fastembed-api/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+fastapi==0.111.0
+fastembed==0.2.7
+pydantic==1.10.15
+uvicorn==0.29.0