diff --git a/requirements-testing.txt b/requirements-testing.txt
index a6041972cd..3008342626 100644
--- a/requirements-testing.txt
+++ b/requirements-testing.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ pytest-forked
 pytest-localserver
 pytest-timeout
 pytest-watch
-jsonschema
 executing
 asttokens
 responses
diff --git a/scripts/populate_tox/tox.jinja b/scripts/populate_tox/tox.jinja
index 40426d30fb..5abadfe281 100644
--- a/scripts/populate_tox/tox.jinja
+++ b/scripts/populate_tox/tox.jinja
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ deps =
 
     # === Common ===
     py3.8-common: hypothesis
+    common: jsonschema
     common: pytest-asyncio
     common: httpcore[asyncio]
     # See https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/9621
@@ -97,6 +98,7 @@ deps =
     # for justification of the upper bound on pytest
     {py3.6,py3.7}-gevent: pytest<7.0.0
     {py3.8,py3.9,py3.10,py3.11,py3.12}-gevent: pytest
+    gevent: jsonschema
     gevent: pytest-asyncio
     gevent: setuptools<82
     {py3.10,py3.11}-gevent: zope.event<5.0.0
diff --git a/tests/conftest.py b/tests/conftest.py
index 11abd66e46..8f971ebfe5 100644
--- a/tests/conftest.py
+++ b/tests/conftest.py
@@ -14,7 +14,12 @@
 from urllib.parse import parse_qs, urlparse
 
 import brotli
-import jsonschema
+
+try:
+    import jsonschema
+except ImportError:
+    jsonschema = None
+
 import pytest
 from pytest_localserver.http import WSGIServer
 from werkzeug.wrappers import Request, Response
@@ -232,6 +237,7 @@ 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 e91115d32e..f17f9ae8e4 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -402,6 +402,7 @@ deps =
 
     # === Common ===
     py3.8-common: hypothesis
+    common: jsonschema
     common: pytest-asyncio
     common: httpcore[asyncio]
     # See https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/9621
@@ -420,6 +421,7 @@ deps =
     # for justification of the upper bound on pytest
     {py3.6,py3.7}-gevent: pytest<7.0.0
     {py3.8,py3.9,py3.10,py3.11,py3.12}-gevent: pytest
+    gevent: jsonschema
     gevent: pytest-asyncio
     gevent: setuptools<82
     {py3.10,py3.11}-gevent: zope.event<5.0.0