diff --git a/airbyte_cdk/sources/streams/http/http_client.py b/airbyte_cdk/sources/streams/http/http_client.py
index 3a0a62739..ee770c4ac 100644
--- a/airbyte_cdk/sources/streams/http/http_client.py
+++ b/airbyte_cdk/sources/streams/http/http_client.py
@@ -110,7 +110,10 @@ def __init__(
         if session:
             self._session = session
         else:
-            self._use_cache = use_cache
+            # TEMPORARY: Force disable cache to prevent unbounded memory growth from
+            # requests_cache SQLite backend accumulating cached HTTP responses in memory.
+            # See: https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte-python-cdk/pull/952
+            self._use_cache = False
             self._session = self._request_session()
             self._session.mount(
                 "https://",
diff --git a/unit_tests/sources/streams/http/test_http.py b/unit_tests/sources/streams/http/test_http.py
index 7512c3722..148d55e5a 100644
--- a/unit_tests/sources/streams/http/test_http.py
+++ b/unit_tests/sources/streams/http/test_http.py
@@ -517,6 +517,9 @@ def test_parent_attribute_exist():
     assert child_stream.parent == parent_stream
 
 
+@pytest.mark.skip(
+    reason="TEMPORARY: cache is hardcoded off in HttpClient to prevent unbounded memory growth"
+)
 def test_that_response_was_cached(mocker, requests_mock):
     requests_mock.register_uri("GET", "https://google.com/", text="text")
     stream = CacheHttpStream()
@@ -547,6 +550,9 @@ def parse_response(self, response: requests.Response, **kwargs) -> Iterable[Mapp
         yield {"value": len(response.text)}
 
 
+@pytest.mark.skip(
+    reason="TEMPORARY: cache is hardcoded off in HttpClient to prevent unbounded memory growth"
+)
 @patch("airbyte_cdk.sources.streams.core.logging", MagicMock())
 def test_using_cache(mocker, requests_mock):
     requests_mock.register_uri("GET", "https://google.com/", text="text")
diff --git a/unit_tests/sources/streams/http/test_http_client.py b/unit_tests/sources/streams/http/test_http_client.py
index ea245c2fb..d24943763 100644
--- a/unit_tests/sources/streams/http/test_http_client.py
+++ b/unit_tests/sources/streams/http/test_http_client.py
@@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ def test_cache_filename():
     http_client.cache_filename == f"{http_client._name}.sqlite"
 
 
+@pytest.mark.skip(
+    reason="TEMPORARY: cache is hardcoded off in HttpClient to prevent unbounded memory growth"
+)
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
     "use_cache, expected_session",
     [
@@ -447,6 +450,9 @@ def test_session_request_exception_raises_backoff_exception():
         http_client._send(prepared_request, {})
 
 
+@pytest.mark.skip(
+    reason="TEMPORARY: cache is hardcoded off in HttpClient to prevent unbounded memory growth"
+)
 def test_that_response_was_cached(requests_mock):
     cached_http_client = test_cache_http_client()
 
@@ -720,6 +726,9 @@ def test_backoff_strategy_endless(
         assert mocked_send.call_count == expected_call_count
 
 
+@pytest.mark.skip(
+    reason="TEMPORARY: cache is hardcoded off in HttpClient to prevent unbounded memory growth"
+)
 def test_given_different_headers_then_response_is_not_cached(requests_mock):
     http_client = HttpClient(name="test", logger=MagicMock(), use_cache=True)
     first_request_headers = {"header_key": "first"}
diff --git a/unit_tests/sources/streams/test_call_rate.py b/unit_tests/sources/streams/test_call_rate.py
index b99905870..7500982cc 100644
--- a/unit_tests/sources/streams/test_call_rate.py
+++ b/unit_tests/sources/streams/test_call_rate.py
@@ -332,6 +332,9 @@ def test_without_cache(self, mocker, requests_mock):
 
         assert MovingWindowCallRatePolicy.try_acquire.call_count == 10
 
+    @pytest.mark.skip(
+        reason="TEMPORARY: cache is hardcoded off in HttpClient to prevent unbounded memory growth"
+    )
     @pytest.mark.usefixtures("enable_cache")
     def test_with_cache(self, mocker, requests_mock):
         """Test that HttpStream will use call budget when provided and not cached"""