diff --git a/evaluation/benchmarks/gaia/run_infer.py b/evaluation/benchmarks/gaia/run_infer.py
index cc21cfc25d..f9841b9566 100644
--- a/evaluation/benchmarks/gaia/run_infer.py
+++ b/evaluation/benchmarks/gaia/run_infer.py
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ import huggingface_hub
 import pandas as pd
 from datasets import load_dataset
 from PIL import Image
-from pydantic import SecretStr
 
 from evaluation.benchmarks.gaia.scorer import question_scorer
 from evaluation.benchmarks.gaia.utils import (
@@ -80,8 +79,7 @@ def get_config(
 
     config_copy = copy.deepcopy(config)
     load_from_toml(config_copy)
-    if config_copy.search_api_key:
-        config.search_api_key = SecretStr(config_copy.search_api_key)
+    config.search_api_key = config_copy.search_api_key
     return config