diff --git a/discord/utils.py b/discord/utils.py
index dc90c8b95..a4aa2835a 100644
--- a/discord/utils.py
+++ b/discord/utils.py
@@ -71,10 +71,14 @@ import types
 import typing
 import warnings
 import logging
-import zlib
 
 import yarl
 
+if sys.version_info >= (3, 14):
+    import compression.zstd
+else:
+    import zlib
+
 try:
     import orjson  # type: ignore
 except ModuleNotFoundError:
@@ -1437,6 +1441,21 @@ if _HAS_ZSTD:
             # Each WS message is a complete gateway message
             return self.context.decompress(data).decode('utf-8')
 
+    _ActiveDecompressionContext: Type[_DecompressionContext] = _ZstdDecompressionContext
+elif sys.version_info >= (3, 14):
+
+    class _ZstdDecompressionContext:
+        __slots__ = ('context',)
+
+        COMPRESSION_TYPE: str = 'zstd-stream'
+
+        def __init__(self) -> None:
+            self.context = compression.zstd.ZstdDecompressor()
+
+        def decompress(self, data: bytes, /) -> str | None:
+            # Each WS message is a complete gateway message
+            return self.context.decompress(data).decode('utf-8')
+
     _ActiveDecompressionContext: Type[_DecompressionContext] = _ZstdDecompressionContext
 else:
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 20d117b01..d32ed9a29 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ speed = [
     "aiodns>=1.1; sys_platform != 'win32'",
     "Brotli",
     "cchardet==2.1.7; python_version < '3.10'",
-    "zstandard>=0.23.0"
+    "zstandard>=0.23.0; python_version <= '3.13'"
 ]
 test = [
     "coverage[toml]",