diff --git a/clients/client/rust/Cargo.toml b/clients/client/rust/Cargo.toml
index af02e9ab89..1f7ca0fc76 100644
--- a/clients/client/rust/Cargo.toml
+++ b/clients/client/rust/Cargo.toml
@@ -6,10 +6,15 @@ description = "OpenAPI API client for Ory Network, Ory's web-scale API for ident
 license = "Apache-2.0"
 edition = "2021"
 
+[features]
+default = ["reqwest"]
+rustls = ["reqwest_rustls"]
+
 [dependencies]
 serde = { version = "^1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_with = { version = "^3.8", default-features = false, features = ["base64", "std", "macros"] }
 serde_json = "^1.0"
 url = "^2.5"
 uuid = { version = "^1.8", features = ["serde", "v4"] }
-reqwest = { version = "^0.12", features = ["json", "multipart"] }
+reqwest = { version = "^0.12", features = ["json", "multipart"], optional = true }
+reqwest_rustls = { package = "reqwest", version = "^0.12", default-features = false, features = ["json", "multipart", "rustls-tls", "brotli", "gzip"], optional = true }
diff --git a/clients/client/rust/src/lib.rs b/clients/client/rust/src/lib.rs
index a1837b966d..4456eb271e 100644
--- a/clients/client/rust/src/lib.rs
+++ b/clients/client/rust/src/lib.rs
@@ -4,7 +4,10 @@
 extern crate serde;
 extern crate serde_json;
 extern crate url;
+#[cfg(feature = "default")]
 extern crate reqwest;
+#[cfg(feature = "rustls")]
+extern crate reqwest_rustls as reqwest;
 
 pub mod apis;
 pub mod models;