diff --git a/llama_stack/providers/adapters/inference/sambanova/sambanova.py b/llama_stack/providers/adapters/inference/sambanova/sambanova.py
index cf4e00a44..3c6f5cdea 100644
--- a/llama_stack/providers/adapters/inference/sambanova/sambanova.py
+++ b/llama_stack/providers/adapters/inference/sambanova/sambanova.py
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 
 from typing import AsyncGenerator
 
-import openai
 from openai import OpenAI
 
 from llama_models.llama3.api.chat_format import ChatFormat