diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 911bc50..5a3bcd6 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 repos:
 -   repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
-    rev: v4.6.0
+    rev: v5.0.0
     hooks:
     -   id: check-yaml
 
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ repos:
       - id: isort
 
 -   repo: https://github.com/psf/black
-    rev: 24.8.0
+    rev: 24.10.0
     hooks:
       - id: black
         name: black
@@ -21,13 +21,13 @@ repos:
     -   id: flake8
 
 -   repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/mirrors-mypy
-    rev: v1.11.1
+    rev: v1.13.0
     hooks:
     -   id: mypy
-        additional_dependencies: [types-requests, types-setuptools, pydantic]
+        additional_dependencies: [types-requests, types-setuptools, flake8-pydantic, flake8-type-checking]
 
 -   repo: https://github.com/executablebooks/mdformat
-    rev: 0.7.17
+    rev: 0.7.18
     hooks:
     -   id: mdformat
         additional_dependencies: [mdformat-gfm, mdformat-frontmatter, mdformat-pyproject]
diff --git a/ape_solidity/__init__.py b/ape_solidity/__init__.py
index 78ecdcc..97e4d82 100644
--- a/ape_solidity/__init__.py
+++ b/ape_solidity/__init__.py
@@ -1,14 +1,45 @@
-from ape import plugins
+from typing import Any
 
-from ._utils import Extension
-from .compiler import SolidityCompiler, SolidityConfig
+from ape import plugins
 
 
 @plugins.register(plugins.Config)
 def config_class():
+    from .compiler import SolidityConfig
+
     return SolidityConfig
 
 
 @plugins.register(plugins.CompilerPlugin)
 def register_compiler():
+    from ._utils import Extension
+    from .compiler import SolidityCompiler
+
     return (Extension.SOL.value,), SolidityCompiler
+
+
+def __getattr__(name: str) -> Any:
+    if name == "Extension":
+        from ._utils import Extension
+
+        return Extension
+
+    elif name == "SolidityCompiler":
+        from .compiler import SolidityCompiler
+
+        return SolidityCompiler
+
+    elif name == "SolidityConfig":
+        from .compiler import SolidityConfig
+
+        return SolidityConfig
+
+    else:
+        raise AttributeError(name)
+
+
+__all__ = [
+    "Extension",
+    "SolidityCompiler",
+    "SolidityConfig",
+]
diff --git a/ape_solidity/_cli.py b/ape_solidity/_cli.py
index 4884f66..ce3348f 100644
--- a/ape_solidity/_cli.py
+++ b/ape_solidity/_cli.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 import ape
 import click
-from ape.cli import ape_cli_context, project_option
+from ape.cli.options import ape_cli_context, project_option
 
 
 @click.group
diff --git a/ape_solidity/_models.py b/ape_solidity/_models.py
index 91f17d3..6840e44 100644
--- a/ape_solidity/_models.py
+++ b/ape_solidity/_models.py
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Optional
 
 from ape.exceptions import CompilerError, ProjectError
-from ape.managers import ProjectManager
 from ape.utils.basemodel import BaseModel, ManagerAccessMixin, classproperty
 from ape.utils.os import get_relative_path
 from pydantic import field_serializer
@@ -13,6 +12,8 @@
 from ape_solidity._utils import get_single_import_lines
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from ape.managers.project import ProjectManager
+
     from ape_solidity.compiler import SolidityCompiler
 
 
@@ -26,7 +27,7 @@ class ApeSolidityModel(BaseModel, ApeSolidityMixin):
     pass
 
 
-def _create_import_remapping(project: ProjectManager) -> dict[str, str]:
+def _create_import_remapping(project: "ProjectManager") -> dict[str, str]:
     prefix = f"{get_relative_path(project.contracts_folder, project.path)}"
     specified = project.dependencies.install()
 
@@ -102,22 +103,22 @@ def __init__(self):
         # Cache project paths to import remapping.
         self._cache: dict[str, dict[str, str]] = {}
 
-    def __getitem__(self, project: ProjectManager) -> dict[str, str]:
+    def __getitem__(self, project: "ProjectManager") -> dict[str, str]:
         if remapping := self._cache.get(f"{project.path}"):
             return remapping
 
         return self.add_project(project)
 
-    def add_project(self, project: ProjectManager) -> dict[str, str]:
+    def add_project(self, project: "ProjectManager") -> dict[str, str]:
         remapping = _create_import_remapping(project)
         return self.add(project, remapping)
 
-    def add(self, project: ProjectManager, remapping: dict[str, str]):
+    def add(self, project: "ProjectManager", remapping: dict[str, str]):
         self._cache[f"{project.path}"] = remapping
         return remapping
 
     @classmethod
-    def get_import_remapping(cls, project: ProjectManager):
+    def get_import_remapping(cls, project: "ProjectManager"):
         return _create_import_remapping(project)
 
 
@@ -147,7 +148,7 @@ def value(self) -> str:
         return self.raw_value
 
     @property
-    def dependency(self) -> Optional[ProjectManager]:
+    def dependency(self) -> Optional["ProjectManager"]:
         if name := self.dependency_name:
             if version := self.dependency_version:
                 return self.local_project.dependencies[name][version]
@@ -159,8 +160,8 @@ def parse_line(
         cls,
         value: str,
         reference: Path,
-        project: ProjectManager,
-        dependency: Optional[ProjectManager] = None,
+        project: "ProjectManager",
+        dependency: Optional["ProjectManager"] = None,
     ) -> "ImportStatementMetadata":
         quote = '"' if '"' in value else "'"
         sep = "\\" if "\\" in value else "/"
@@ -186,14 +187,17 @@ def __hash__(self) -> int:
         return hash(path)
 
     def _resolve_source(
-        self, reference: Path, project: ProjectManager, dependency: Optional[ProjectManager] = None
+        self,
+        reference: Path,
+        project: "ProjectManager",
+        dependency: Optional["ProjectManager"] = None,
     ):
         if not self._resolve_dependency(project, dependency=dependency):
             # Handle non-dependencies.
             self._resolve_import_remapping(project)
             self._resolve_path(reference, project)
 
-    def _resolve_import_remapping(self, project: ProjectManager):
+    def _resolve_import_remapping(self, project: "ProjectManager"):
         if self.value.startswith("."):
             # Relative paths should not use import-remappings.
             return
@@ -213,7 +217,7 @@ def _resolve_import_remapping(self, project: ProjectManager):
                 valid_matches, key=lambda x: len(x[0])
             )
 
-    def _resolve_path(self, reference: Path, project: ProjectManager):
+    def _resolve_path(self, reference: Path, project: "ProjectManager"):
         base_path = None
         if self.value.startswith("."):
             base_path = reference.parent
@@ -236,7 +240,7 @@ def _resolve_path(self, reference: Path, project: ProjectManager):
             self.source_id = f"{get_relative_path(self.path, project.path)}"
 
     def _resolve_dependency(
-        self, project: ProjectManager, dependency: Optional[ProjectManager] = None
+        self, project: "ProjectManager", dependency: Optional["ProjectManager"] = None
     ) -> bool:
         config_project = dependency or project
         # NOTE: Dependency is set if we are getting dependencies of dependencies.
@@ -340,9 +344,9 @@ def _serialize_import_statements(self, statements, info):
     def from_source_files(
         cls,
         source_files: Iterable[Path],
-        project: ProjectManager,
+        project: "ProjectManager",
         statements: Optional[dict[tuple[Path, str], set[ImportStatementMetadata]]] = None,
-        dependency: Optional[ProjectManager] = None,
+        dependency: Optional["ProjectManager"] = None,
     ) -> "SourceTree":
         statements = statements or {}
         for path in source_files:
diff --git a/ape_solidity/_utils.py b/ape_solidity/_utils.py
index d9ca03d..61278f6 100644
--- a/ape_solidity/_utils.py
+++ b/ape_solidity/_utils.py
@@ -3,15 +3,18 @@
 from collections.abc import Iterable
 from enum import Enum
 from pathlib import Path
-from typing import Optional, Union
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Optional, Union
 
 from ape.exceptions import CompilerError
 from ape.utils import pragma_str_to_specifier_set
-from packaging.specifiers import SpecifierSet
 from packaging.version import Version
 from solcx.install import get_executable
 from solcx.wrapper import get_solc_version as get_solc_version_from_binary
 
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from packaging.specifiers import SpecifierSet
+
+
 OUTPUT_SELECTION = [
     "abi",
     "bin-runtime",
@@ -62,7 +65,7 @@ def get_single_import_lines(source_path: Path) -> list[str]:
     return list(import_set)
 
 
-def get_pragma_spec_from_path(source_file_path: Union[Path, str]) -> Optional[SpecifierSet]:
+def get_pragma_spec_from_path(source_file_path: Union[Path, str]) -> Optional["SpecifierSet"]:
     """
     Extracts pragma information from Solidity source code.
 
@@ -80,7 +83,7 @@ def get_pragma_spec_from_path(source_file_path: Union[Path, str]) -> Optional[Sp
     return get_pragma_spec_from_str(source_str)
 
 
-def get_pragma_spec_from_str(source_str: str) -> Optional[SpecifierSet]:
+def get_pragma_spec_from_str(source_str: str) -> Optional["SpecifierSet"]:
     if not (
         pragma_match := next(
             re.finditer(r"(?:\n|^)\s*pragma\s*solidity\s*([^;\n]*)", source_str), None
@@ -106,11 +109,11 @@ def add_commit_hash(version: Union[str, Version]) -> Version:
     return get_solc_version_from_binary(solc, with_commit_hash=True)
 
 
-def get_versions_can_use(pragma_spec: SpecifierSet, options: Iterable[Version]) -> list[Version]:
+def get_versions_can_use(pragma_spec: "SpecifierSet", options: Iterable[Version]) -> list[Version]:
     return sorted(list(pragma_spec.filter(options)), reverse=True)
 
 
-def select_version(pragma_spec: SpecifierSet, options: Iterable[Version]) -> Optional[Version]:
+def select_version(pragma_spec: "SpecifierSet", options: Iterable[Version]) -> Optional[Version]:
     choices = get_versions_can_use(pragma_spec, options)
     return choices[0] if choices else None
 
diff --git a/ape_solidity/compiler.py b/ape_solidity/compiler.py
index 97fee09..246f51e 100644
--- a/ape_solidity/compiler.py
+++ b/ape_solidity/compiler.py
@@ -2,10 +2,9 @@
 from collections import defaultdict
 from collections.abc import Iterable, Iterator, Sequence
 from pathlib import Path
-from typing import Any, Optional, Union
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Optional, Union
 
 from ape.api import CompilerAPI, PluginConfig
-from ape.contracts import ContractInstance
 from ape.exceptions import CompilerError, ConfigError, ContractLogicError
 from ape.logging import logger
 from ape.managers.project import LocalProject, ProjectManager
@@ -15,7 +14,6 @@
 from eth_pydantic_types import HexBytes
 from eth_utils import add_0x_prefix, is_0x_prefixed
 from ethpm_types.source import Compiler, Content
-from packaging.specifiers import SpecifierSet
 from packaging.version import Version
 from pydantic import model_validator
 from requests.exceptions import ConnectionError
@@ -50,6 +48,11 @@
     SolcInstallError,
 )
 
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from ape.contracts import ContractInstance
+    from packaging.specifiers import SpecifierSet
+
+
 LICENSES_PATTERN = re.compile(r"(// SPDX-License-Identifier:\s*([^\n]*)\s)")
 
 # Comment patterns
@@ -234,7 +237,7 @@ def _get_configured_version(
     def _ape_version(self) -> Version:
         return Version(version.split(".dev")[0].strip())
 
-    def add_library(self, *contracts: ContractInstance, project: Optional[ProjectManager] = None):
+    def add_library(self, *contracts: "ContractInstance", project: Optional[ProjectManager] = None):
         """
         Set a library contract type address. This is useful when deploying a library
         in a local network and then adding the address afterward. Now, when
@@ -521,8 +524,6 @@ def _compile(
                             input_contract_names.append(name)
 
             for source_id, contracts_out in contracts.items():
-                # ast_data = output["sources"][source_id]["ast"]
-
                 for contract_name, ct_data in contracts_out.items():
                     if contract_name not in input_contract_names:
                         # Only return ContractTypes explicitly asked for.
@@ -784,7 +785,7 @@ def get_version_map_from_imports(
         # is more predictable. Also, remove any lingering empties.
         return {k: result[k] for k in sorted(result) if result[k]}
 
-    def _get_pramga_spec_from_str(self, source_str: str) -> Optional[SpecifierSet]:
+    def _get_pramga_spec_from_str(self, source_str: str) -> Optional["SpecifierSet"]:
         if not (pragma_spec := get_pragma_spec_from_str(source_str)):
             return None
 
diff --git a/ape_solidity/exceptions.py b/ape_solidity/exceptions.py
index 5a11aae..eebe3f0 100644
--- a/ape_solidity/exceptions.py
+++ b/ape_solidity/exceptions.py
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 from enum import IntEnum
-from typing import Union
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Union
 
 from ape.exceptions import CompilerError, ConfigError, ContractLogicError
 from ape.logging import LogLevel, logger
-from solcx.exceptions import SolcError
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from solcx.exceptions import SolcError
 
 
 class SolcInstallError(CompilerError):
@@ -25,7 +27,7 @@ class SolcCompileError(CompilerError):
     account Ape's logging verbosity.
     """
 
-    def __init__(self, solc_error: SolcError):
+    def __init__(self, solc_error: "SolcError"):
         self.solc_error = solc_error
 
     def __str__(self) -> str:
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 1277c6b..1c41709 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 [flake8]
 max-line-length = 100
+ignore = E704,W503,PYD002,TC003,TC006
 exclude =
 	venv*
 	docs
 	build
 	tests/node_modules
+type-checking-pydantic-enabled = True
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 7d2b832..67e78ac 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -12,13 +12,15 @@
         "pytest-benchmark",  # For performance tests
     ],
     "lint": [
-        "black>=24.8.0,<25",  # Auto-formatter and linter
-        "mypy>=1.11.1,<2",  # Static type analyzer
+        "black>=24.10.0,<25",  # Auto-formatter and linter
+        "mypy>=1.13.0,<2",  # Static type analyzer
         "types-requests",  # Needed for mypy type shed
         "types-setuptools",  # Needed for mypy type shed
         "flake8>=7.1.1,<8",  # Style linter
+        "flake8-pydantic",  # For detecting issues with Pydantic models
+        "flake8-type-checking",  # Detect imports to move in/out of type-checking blocks
         "isort>=5.13.2,<6",  # Import sorting linter
-        "mdformat>=0.7.17",  # Auto-formatter for markdown
+        "mdformat>=0.7.18",  # Auto-formatter for markdown
         "mdformat-gfm>=0.3.5",  # Needed for formatting GitHub-flavored markdown
         "mdformat-frontmatter>=0.4.1",  # Needed for frontmatters-style headers in issue templates
         "mdformat-pyproject>=0.0.1",  # Allows configuring in pyproject.toml
diff --git a/tests/test_compiler.py b/tests/test_compiler.py
index 18ade11..9b47278 100644
--- a/tests/test_compiler.py
+++ b/tests/test_compiler.py
@@ -655,7 +655,7 @@ def test_compile_outputs_compiler_data_to_manifest(project, compiler):
     actual = project.manifest.compilers[0]
     assert actual.name == "solidity"
     assert "CompilesOnce" in actual.contractTypes
-    assert actual.version == "0.8.27+commit.40a35a09"
+    assert actual.version == "0.8.28+commit.7893614a"
     # Compiling again should not add the same compiler again.
     _ = [c for c in compiler.compile((path,), project=project)]
     length_again = len(project.manifest.compilers or [])