diff --git a/benchmark/benchmark.py b/benchmark/benchmark.py
index 85c181b7..d74c6e74 100644
--- a/benchmark/benchmark.py
+++ b/benchmark/benchmark.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 import pandas as pd
 import seaborn as sns
 from openvino import AsyncInferQueue, CompiledModel, InferRequest
-from openvino.runtime import ProfilingInfo, properties
+from openvino import ProfilingInfo, properties
 from openvino_tokenizers import convert_tokenizer
 from tqdm.auto import tqdm
 from transformers import AutoTokenizer, PreTrainedTokenizerBase
diff --git a/python/openvino_tokenizers/__init__.py b/python/openvino_tokenizers/__init__.py
index 9ce9b157..56f777e8 100644
--- a/python/openvino_tokenizers/__init__.py
+++ b/python/openvino_tokenizers/__init__.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 from typing import Callable, Optional
 
 import openvino
-from openvino.runtime.utils.node_factory import NodeFactory
+from openvino.utils.node_factory import NodeFactory
 
 
 _ext_name = "openvino_tokenizers"
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@
 del _ext_name
 
 # patching openvino
-old_core_init = openvino.runtime.Core.__init__
-old_factory_init = openvino.runtime.utils.node_factory.NodeFactory.__init__
+old_core_init = openvino.Core.__init__
+old_factory_init = openvino.utils.node_factory.NodeFactory.__init__
 old_fe_init = openvino.frontend.frontend.FrontEnd.__init__
 
 
@@ -65,8 +65,8 @@ def new_fe_init(self, *args, **kwargs):
     self.add_extension(str(_ext_path))
 
 
-openvino.runtime.Core.__init__ = new_core_init
-openvino.runtime.utils.node_factory.NodeFactory.__init__ = new_factory_init
+openvino.Core.__init__ = new_core_init
+openvino.utils.node_factory.NodeFactory.__init__ = new_factory_init
 openvino.frontend.frontend.FrontEnd.__init__ = new_fe_init
 
 
diff --git a/python/openvino_tokenizers/build_tokenizer.py b/python/openvino_tokenizers/build_tokenizer.py
index bbbea703..6c5173ca 100644
--- a/python/openvino_tokenizers/build_tokenizer.py
+++ b/python/openvino_tokenizers/build_tokenizer.py
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 from typing import Iterable, Tuple
 
 from openvino import Model, PartialShape, Type
-from openvino.runtime import op
-from openvino.runtime import opset12 as opset
-from openvino.runtime.utils.types import make_constant_node
+from openvino import op
+from openvino import opset12 as opset
+from openvino.utils.types import make_constant_node
 
 from openvino_tokenizers.constants import DETOKENIZER_NAME, STRING_OUTPUT_NAME, TOKEN_IDS_INPUT_NAME, TOKENIZER_NAME
 from openvino_tokenizers.tokenizer_pipeline import (
diff --git a/python/openvino_tokenizers/convert_tokenizer.py b/python/openvino_tokenizers/convert_tokenizer.py
index 3483a95a..56b8ca5a 100644
--- a/python/openvino_tokenizers/convert_tokenizer.py
+++ b/python/openvino_tokenizers/convert_tokenizer.py
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@
 from functools import wraps
 from typing import Any, Optional, Tuple, Union
 
-from openvino.runtime import Model, Type
-from openvino.runtime.exceptions import OVTypeError
+from openvino import Model, Type
+from openvino.exceptions import OVTypeError
 
 from openvino_tokenizers.constants import UTF8ReplaceMode
 from openvino_tokenizers.utils import (
diff --git a/python/openvino_tokenizers/hf_parser.py b/python/openvino_tokenizers/hf_parser.py
index e4b240c9..1fb30b50 100644
--- a/python/openvino_tokenizers/hf_parser.py
+++ b/python/openvino_tokenizers/hf_parser.py
@@ -12,11 +12,11 @@
 from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, List, Optional, Tuple, Union
 
 import numpy as np
-import openvino.runtime.opset14 as opset
+import openvino.opset14 as opset
 from openvino import Model, PartialShape, Type
-from openvino.runtime import Node, op
-from openvino.runtime.exceptions import OVTypeError
-from openvino.runtime.utils.types import as_node, make_constant_node
+from openvino import Node, op
+from openvino.exceptions import OVTypeError
+from openvino.utils.types import as_node, make_constant_node
 from transformers import PreTrainedTokenizerBase, PreTrainedTokenizerFast
 from transformers.convert_slow_tokenizer import import_protobuf
 
diff --git a/python/openvino_tokenizers/tokenizer_pipeline.py b/python/openvino_tokenizers/tokenizer_pipeline.py
index ae2036a2..3d1a6aac 100644
--- a/python/openvino_tokenizers/tokenizer_pipeline.py
+++ b/python/openvino_tokenizers/tokenizer_pipeline.py
@@ -14,10 +14,10 @@
 from typing import Any, Dict, Iterable, List, Optional, Tuple, Union
 
 import numpy as np
-from openvino.runtime import Model, Output, PartialShape, Shape, Type, op
-from openvino.runtime import opset12 as opset
-from openvino.runtime.exceptions import OVTypeError, UserInputError
-from openvino.runtime.utils.types import as_node, make_constant_node
+from openvino import Model, Output, PartialShape, Shape, Type, op
+from openvino import opset12 as opset
+from openvino.exceptions import OVTypeError, UserInputError
+from openvino.utils.types import as_node, make_constant_node
 
 from . import _get_factory
 from .constants import (
diff --git a/python/openvino_tokenizers/utils.py b/python/openvino_tokenizers/utils.py
index ae4edba5..51eff970 100644
--- a/python/openvino_tokenizers/utils.py
+++ b/python/openvino_tokenizers/utils.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 
 from openvino import Model, Type
 from openvino.preprocess import PrePostProcessor
-from openvino.runtime import opset12 as opset
+from openvino import opset12 as opset
 
 from .constants import (
     LOGITS_OUTPUT_NAME,
diff --git a/tests/layer_tests.py b/tests/layer_tests.py
index eac73549..90c5efde 100644
--- a/tests/layer_tests.py
+++ b/tests/layer_tests.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 import openvino as ov
 import pytest
 from openvino import Model, PartialShape, Type
-from openvino.runtime import op
+from openvino import op
 from openvino_tokenizers import _get_factory
 from openvino_tokenizers.constants import UTF8ReplaceMode
 from openvino_tokenizers.tokenizer_pipeline import (