diff --git a/dev-proxy-abstractions/LanguageModel/OllamaLanguageModelClient.cs b/dev-proxy-abstractions/LanguageModel/OllamaLanguageModelClient.cs
index c40c2cb0..a8b91585 100644
--- a/dev-proxy-abstractions/LanguageModel/OllamaLanguageModelClient.cs
+++ b/dev-proxy-abstractions/LanguageModel/OllamaLanguageModelClient.cs
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ public class OllamaLanguageModelClient(LanguageModelConfiguration? configuration
 {
     private readonly LanguageModelConfiguration? _configuration = configuration;
     private readonly ILogger _logger = logger;
+    private readonly HttpClient _httpClient = new();
     private bool? _lmAvailable;
     private readonly Dictionary<string, OllamaLanguageModelCompletionResponse> _cacheCompletion = [];
     private readonly Dictionary<ILanguageModelChatCompletionMessage[], OllamaLanguageModelChatCompletionResponse> _cacheChatCompletion = [];
@@ -119,11 +120,10 @@ private async Task<bool> IsEnabledInternalAsync()
 
         try
         {
-            using var client = new HttpClient();
             var url = $"{_configuration.Url}/api/generate";
             _logger.LogDebug("Requesting completion. Prompt: {prompt}", prompt);
 
-            var response = await client.PostAsJsonAsync(url,
+            var response = await _httpClient.PostAsJsonAsync(url,
                 new
                 {
                     prompt,
@@ -213,11 +213,10 @@ private async Task<bool> IsEnabledInternalAsync()
 
         try
         {
-            using var client = new HttpClient();
             var url = $"{_configuration.Url}/api/chat";
             _logger.LogDebug("Requesting chat completion. Message: {lastMessage}", messages.Last().Content);
 
-            var response = await client.PostAsJsonAsync(url,
+            var response = await _httpClient.PostAsJsonAsync(url,
                 new
                 {
                     messages,
diff --git a/dev-proxy-abstractions/LanguageModel/OpenAILanguageModelClient.cs b/dev-proxy-abstractions/LanguageModel/OpenAILanguageModelClient.cs
index d4264a92..4cc12e6c 100644
--- a/dev-proxy-abstractions/LanguageModel/OpenAILanguageModelClient.cs
+++ b/dev-proxy-abstractions/LanguageModel/OpenAILanguageModelClient.cs
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ public class OpenAILanguageModelClient(LanguageModelConfiguration? configuration
 {
     private readonly LanguageModelConfiguration? _configuration = configuration;
     private readonly ILogger _logger = logger;
+    private readonly HttpClient _httpClient = new();
     private bool? _lmAvailable;
     private readonly Dictionary<ILanguageModelChatCompletionMessage[], OpenAIChatCompletionResponse> _cacheChatCompletion = [];
 
@@ -158,7 +159,6 @@ private async Task<bool> IsEnabledInternalAsync()
 
         try
         {
-            using var client = new HttpClient();
             var url = $"{_configuration.Url}/chat/completions";
             _logger.LogDebug("Requesting chat completion. Message: {lastMessage}", messages.Last().Content);
 
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ private async Task<bool> IsEnabledInternalAsync()
                 Temperature = options?.Temperature
             };
 
-            var response = await client.PostAsJsonAsync(url, payload);
+            var response = await _httpClient.PostAsJsonAsync(url, payload);
             _logger.LogDebug("Response: {response}", response.StatusCode);
 
             if (!response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
diff --git a/dev-proxy-plugins/GraphUtils.cs b/dev-proxy-plugins/GraphUtils.cs
index 0dcc8fcb..4095a987 100644
--- a/dev-proxy-plugins/GraphUtils.cs
+++ b/dev-proxy-plugins/GraphUtils.cs
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ namespace DevProxy.Plugins;
 
 public class GraphUtils
 {
+    private static readonly HttpClient _httpClient = new();
+
     // throttle requests per workload
     public static string BuildThrottleKey(Request r) => BuildThrottleKey(r.RequestUri);
 
@@ -53,14 +55,13 @@ internal static async Task<IEnumerable<string>> UpdateUserScopesAsync(IEnumerabl
         var newMinimalScopes = new HashSet<string>(minimalScopes);
 
         var url = $"https://devxapi-func-prod-eastus.azurewebsites.net/permissions?scopeType={GetScopeTypeString(permissionsType)}";
-        using var httpClient = new HttpClient();
         var urls = userEndpoints.Select(e => {
             logger.LogDebug("Getting permissions for {method} {url}", e.method, e.url);
             return $"{url}&requesturl={e.url}&method={e.method}";
         });
         var tasks = urls.Select(u => {
             logger.LogTrace("Calling {url}...", u);
-            return httpClient.GetFromJsonAsync<GraphPermissionInfo[]>(u);
+            return _httpClient.GetFromJsonAsync<GraphPermissionInfo[]>(u);
         });
         await Task.WhenAll(tasks);
 
diff --git a/dev-proxy-plugins/Mocks/MockRequestPlugin.cs b/dev-proxy-plugins/Mocks/MockRequestPlugin.cs
index a2e7e129..59f70b62 100644
--- a/dev-proxy-plugins/Mocks/MockRequestPlugin.cs
+++ b/dev-proxy-plugins/Mocks/MockRequestPlugin.cs
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ public class MockRequestPlugin(IPluginEvents pluginEvents, IProxyContext context
 {
     protected MockRequestConfiguration _configuration = new();
     private MockRequestLoader? _loader = null;
+    private readonly HttpClient _httpClient = new();
 
     public override string Name => nameof(MockRequestPlugin);
 
@@ -95,14 +96,13 @@ protected virtual async Task OnMockRequestAsync(object sender, EventArgs e)
             return;
         }
 
-        using var httpClient = new HttpClient();
         var requestMessage = GetRequestMessage();
 
         try
         {
             Logger.LogRequest("Sending mock request", MessageType.Mocked, _configuration.Request.Method, _configuration.Request.Url);
 
-            await httpClient.SendAsync(requestMessage);
+            await _httpClient.SendAsync(requestMessage);
         }
         catch (Exception ex)
         {