diff --git a/apps/js-sdk/firecrawl/src/index.ts b/apps/js-sdk/firecrawl/src/index.ts
index 7601414c..e70b9687 100644
--- a/apps/js-sdk/firecrawl/src/index.ts
+++ b/apps/js-sdk/firecrawl/src/index.ts
@@ -535,7 +535,7 @@ export default class FirecrawlApp {
       const response: AxiosResponse = await axios.post(
         this.apiUrl + `/v1/scrape`,
         jsonData,
-        { headers }
+        { headers, timeout: params?.timeout !== undefined ? (params.timeout + 5000) : undefined },
       );
       if (response.status === 200) {
         const responseData = response.data;
@@ -1262,7 +1262,7 @@ export default class FirecrawlApp {
     data: any,
     headers: AxiosRequestHeaders
   ): Promise<AxiosResponse> {
-    return axios.post(url, data, { headers });
+    return axios.post(url, data, { headers, timeout: (data?.timeout ? (data.timeout + 5000) : undefined) });
   }
 
   /**
diff --git a/apps/python-sdk/firecrawl/firecrawl.py b/apps/python-sdk/firecrawl/firecrawl.py
index 08e665c2..9364635b 100644
--- a/apps/python-sdk/firecrawl/firecrawl.py
+++ b/apps/python-sdk/firecrawl/firecrawl.py
@@ -145,6 +145,7 @@ class FirecrawlApp:
             f'{self.api_url}{endpoint}',
             headers=headers,
             json=scrape_params,
+            timeout=(scrape_params["timeout"] + 5000 if "timeout" in scrape_params else None),
         )
         if response.status_code == 200:
             try:
@@ -925,7 +926,7 @@ class FirecrawlApp:
             requests.RequestException: If the request fails after the specified retries.
         """
         for attempt in range(retries):
-            response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, json=data)
+            response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, json=data, timeout=((data["timeout"] + 5000) if "timeout" in data else None))
             if response.status_code == 502:
                 time.sleep(backoff_factor * (2 ** attempt))
             else: