diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 1035c3e..4e3321c 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ dependencies = [
   "grpcio==1.62.2",
   "grpcio-health-checking==1.62.2",
   "grpcio-reflection==1.62.2",
-  "transformers",
+  "transformers==4.42.4",
   "accelerate==0.31.0",
   "hf-transfer==0.1.6",
   # additional dependencies for OpenTelemetry tracing