diff --git a/elastic_transport/__init__.py b/elastic_transport/__init__.py
index 786bc0d..3797a68 100644
--- a/elastic_transport/__init__.py
+++ b/elastic_transport/__init__.py
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
     BaseAsyncNode,
     BaseNode,
     HttpxAsyncHttpNode,
+    NodeApiResponse,
     RequestsHttpNode,
     Urllib3HttpNode,
 )
@@ -76,6 +77,7 @@
     "JsonSerializer",
     "ListApiResponse",
     "NdjsonSerializer",
+    "NodeApiResponse",
     "NodeConfig",
     "NodePool",
     "NodeSelector",
diff --git a/elastic_transport/_node/_base.py b/elastic_transport/_node/_base.py
index e912e7a..a903992 100644
--- a/elastic_transport/_node/_base.py
+++ b/elastic_transport/_node/_base.py
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ def perform_request(
             :class:`elastic_transport.ConnectionError`,
             :class:`elastic_transport.ConnectionTimeout`,
             :class:`elastic_transport.TlsError`
-        :rtype: Tuple[ApiResponseMeta, bytes]
+        :rtype: Tuple[NodeApiResponse, bytes]
         :returns: Metadata about the request+response and the raw
             decompressed bytes from the HTTP response body.
         """