diff --git a/src/agent/onefuzz-agent/src/tasks/utils.rs b/src/agent/onefuzz-agent/src/tasks/utils.rs
index 5b36ab7c4c..4ed1fb346d 100644
--- a/src/agent/onefuzz-agent/src/tasks/utils.rs
+++ b/src/agent/onefuzz-agent/src/tasks/utils.rs
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@
 use anyhow::Result;
 use async_trait::async_trait;
 use onefuzz::{http::ResponseExt, jitter::delay_with_jitter};
-use reqwest::Url;
+use reqwest::{Client, Url};
+use reqwest_retry::SendRetry;
 use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
 use std::time::Duration;
 use tokio::{fs, io};
@@ -13,7 +14,9 @@ pub async fn download_input(input_url: Url, dst: impl AsRef<Path>) -> Result<Pat
     let file_name = input_url.path_segments().unwrap().last().unwrap();
     let file_path = dst.as_ref().join(file_name);
 
-    let resp = reqwest::get(input_url)
+    let resp = Client::new()
+        .get(input_url)
+        .send_retry_default()
         .await?
         .error_for_status_with_body()
         .await?;