diff --git a/stubs/requests/requests/models.pyi b/stubs/requests/requests/models.pyi
index ff0822671842..957a0e074f78 100644
--- a/stubs/requests/requests/models.pyi
+++ b/stubs/requests/requests/models.pyi
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ class Response:
     headers: CaseInsensitiveDict[str]
     raw: Any
     url: str
-    encoding: str
+    encoding: str | None
     history: list[Response]
     reason: str
     cookies: RequestsCookieJar