diff --git a/server/core/controllers/api/videos/captions.ts b/server/core/controllers/api/videos/captions.ts
index 1cd620038..54573d60e 100644
--- a/server/core/controllers/api/videos/captions.ts
+++ b/server/core/controllers/api/videos/captions.ts
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ import {
   listVideoCaptionsValidator
 } from '../../../middlewares/validators/index.js'
 import { VideoCaptionModel } from '../../../models/video/video-caption.js'
+import { retryTransactionWrapper } from '@server/helpers/database-utils.js'
 
 const lTags = loggerTagsFactory('api', 'video-caption')
 
@@ -39,7 +40,7 @@ videoCaptionsRouter.put('/:videoId/captions/:captionLanguage',
   authenticate,
   reqVideoCaptionAdd,
   asyncMiddleware(addVideoCaptionValidator),
-  asyncRetryTransactionMiddleware(createVideoCaption)
+  asyncMiddleware(createVideoCaption)
 )
 
 videoCaptionsRouter.delete('/:videoId/captions/:captionLanguage',
@@ -88,8 +89,10 @@ async function createVideoCaption (req: express.Request, res: express.Response)
     automaticallyGenerated: false
   })
 
-  await sequelizeTypescript.transaction(async t => {
-    await federateVideoIfNeeded(video, false, t)
+  await retryTransactionWrapper(() => {
+    return sequelizeTypescript.transaction(async t => {
+      return federateVideoIfNeeded(video, false, t)
+    })
   })
 
   Hooks.runAction('action:api.video-caption.created', { caption: videoCaption, req, res })
diff --git a/server/core/lib/video-captions.ts b/server/core/lib/video-captions.ts
index 2309fdc10..66730de1c 100644
--- a/server/core/lib/video-captions.ts
+++ b/server/core/lib/video-captions.ts
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import { JobQueue } from './job-queue/job-queue.js'
 import { Notifier } from './notifier/notifier.js'
 import { TranscriptionJobHandler } from './runners/index.js'
 import { VideoPathManager } from './video-path-manager.js'
+import { retryTransactionWrapper } from '@server/helpers/database-utils.js'
 
 const lTags = loggerTagsFactory('video-caption')
 
@@ -39,8 +40,10 @@ export async function createLocalCaption (options: {
 
   await moveAndProcessCaptionFile({ path }, videoCaption)
 
-  await sequelizeTypescript.transaction(async t => {
-    await VideoCaptionModel.insertOrReplaceLanguage(videoCaption, t)
+  await retryTransactionWrapper(() => {
+    return sequelizeTypescript.transaction(t => {
+      return VideoCaptionModel.insertOrReplaceLanguage(videoCaption, t)
+    })
   })
 
   return Object.assign(videoCaption, { Video: video })