diff --git a/requirements-testing.txt b/requirements-testing.txt
index 3cac3c91ba..eefe6e7c2e 100644
--- a/requirements-testing.txt
+++ b/requirements-testing.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ pytest-cov
 pytest-forked
 pytest-localserver
 pytest-timeout
-jsonschema
 executing
 asttokens
 responses
diff --git a/scripts/populate_tox/tox.jinja b/scripts/populate_tox/tox.jinja
index b91f9d0b45..95a4335019 100644
--- a/scripts/populate_tox/tox.jinja
+++ b/scripts/populate_tox/tox.jinja
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ deps =
     # === Common ===
     py3.8-common: hypothesis
     common: brotli
+    common: jsonschema
     common: pysocks
     common: pytest-asyncio
     common: httpcore[asyncio]
@@ -101,6 +102,7 @@ deps =
     {py3.6,py3.7}-gevent: pytest<7.0.0
     {py3.8,py3.9,py3.10,py3.11,py3.12}-gevent: pytest
     gevent: brotli
+    gevent: jsonschema
     gevent: pysocks
     gevent: pytest-asyncio
     gevent: setuptools<82
diff --git a/tests/conftest.py b/tests/conftest.py
index c73bbdcbcc..eb5df6fa64 100644
--- a/tests/conftest.py
+++ b/tests/conftest.py
@@ -18,7 +18,11 @@
 except ImportError:
     brotli = None
 
-import jsonschema
+try:
+    import jsonschema
+except ImportError:
+    jsonschema = None
+
 import pytest
 from pytest_localserver.http import WSGIServer
 from werkzeug.wrappers import Request, Response
@@ -236,6 +240,7 @@ def _capture_internal_warnings():
 @pytest.fixture
 def validate_event_schema(tmpdir):
     def inner(event):
+        assert jsonschema is not None
         if SENTRY_EVENT_SCHEMA:
             jsonschema.validate(instance=event, schema=SENTRY_EVENT_SCHEMA)
 
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 5b21972349..2a03a81e39 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -403,6 +403,7 @@ deps =
     # === Common ===
     py3.8-common: hypothesis
     common: brotli
+    common: jsonschema
     common: pysocks
     common: pytest-asyncio
     common: httpcore[asyncio]
@@ -424,6 +425,7 @@ deps =
     {py3.6,py3.7}-gevent: pytest<7.0.0
     {py3.8,py3.9,py3.10,py3.11,py3.12}-gevent: pytest
     gevent: brotli
+    gevent: jsonschema
     gevent: pysocks
     gevent: pytest-asyncio
     gevent: setuptools<82