diff --git a/backend/src/config/__init__.py b/backend/src/config/__init__.py
index 6adda15..c4f0716 100644
--- a/backend/src/config/__init__.py
+++ b/backend/src/config/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import os
-from typing import Literal
 
 from pydantic import BaseModel
 
@@ -16,16 +15,8 @@ class ProwlarrConfig(BaseModel):
 
 
 
-class QbittorrentConfig(BaseModel):
-    host: str = os.getenv("QBITTORRENT_HOST") or "localhost"
-    port: int = os.getenv("QBITTORRENT_PORT") or 8080
-    username: str = os.getenv("QBITTORRENT_USERNAME") or "admin"
-    password: str = os.getenv("QBITTORRENT_PASSWORD") or "adminadmin"
 
 
-class DownloadClientConfig(BaseModel):
-    client: Literal['qbit'] = os.getenv("DOWNLOAD_CLIENT") or "qbit"
-
 
 class MachineLearningConfig(BaseModel):
     model_name: str = os.getenv("OLLAMA_MODEL_NAME") or "qwen2.5:0.5b"
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diff --git a/backend/src/dowloadClients/__init__.py b/backend/src/dowloadClients/__init__.py
index e31891a..3220a4f 100644
--- a/backend/src/dowloadClients/__init__.py
+++ b/backend/src/dowloadClients/__init__.py
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-from config import DownloadClientConfig
+from dowloadClients.config import DownloadClientConfig
 from dowloadClients.qbittorrent import QbittorrentClient
 
 config = DownloadClientConfig()
 
 # TODO: add more elif when implementing more download clients
-if config.client == "qbit":
+if config.download_client == "qbit":
     client = QbittorrentClient()
 else:
-    client = QbittorrentClient()
+    raise ValueError("Unknown download client")
diff --git a/backend/src/dowloadClients/config.py b/backend/src/dowloadClients/config.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b3f3a51
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend/src/dowloadClients/config.py
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+from pydantic_settings import BaseSettings
+
+
+class DownloadClientConfig(BaseSettings):
+    download_client: str = "qbit"
diff --git a/backend/src/dowloadClients/qbittorrent.py b/backend/src/dowloadClients/qbittorrent.py
index e730264..5ad90ee 100644
--- a/backend/src/dowloadClients/qbittorrent.py
+++ b/backend/src/dowloadClients/qbittorrent.py
@@ -1,13 +1,21 @@
 import logging
 
 import qbittorrentapi
+from pydantic_settings import BaseSettings, SettingsConfigDict
 
-from config import QbittorrentConfig
 from database.torrents import Torrent
 from dowloadClients.genericDownloadClient import GenericDownloadClient
 
 log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
+
+class QbittorrentConfig(BaseSettings):
+    model_config = SettingsConfigDict(env_prefix='QBITTORRENT_')
+    host: str = "localhost"
+    port: int = 8080
+    username: str = "admin"
+
+
 class QbittorrentClient(GenericDownloadClient):
     DOWNLOADING_STATE = ("allocating", "downloading", "metaDL", "pausedDL", "queuedDL", "stalledDL", "checkingDL",
                          "forcedDL", "moving")