diff --git a/benchmarks/gabe-fs-markdown-route-api/package.json b/benchmarks/gabe-fs-markdown-route-api/package.json
index 4ee5f432d595a..60a6d503a9990 100644
--- a/benchmarks/gabe-fs-markdown-route-api/package.json
+++ b/benchmarks/gabe-fs-markdown-route-api/package.json
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
     "faker": "^4.1.0",
     "gatsby": "^2",
     "gatsby-source-filesystem": "^2",
-    "gatsby-transformer-remark": "^2",
+    "gatsby-transformer-remark": "^4.0.0",
     "react": "^16.12.0",
     "react-dom": "^16.12.0"
   }