diff --git a/axum-core/Cargo.toml b/axum-core/Cargo.toml
index 2b817302c7b..6667c5a24b4 100644
--- a/axum-core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/axum-core/Cargo.toml
@@ -23,3 +23,7 @@ futures-util = "0.3"
 axum = { path = "../axum", version = "0.5" }
 hyper = "0.14"
 tokio = { version = "1.0", features = ["macros"] }
+
+[dev-dependencies.tower-http]
+version = "0.3.4"
+features = ["limit"]