diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 4023e76..4ffda81 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ readme = "README.md"
 license = {text = "MIT"}
 requires-python = ">=3.12"
 dependencies = [
-    "sentence-transformers>=2.2.0",
+    "sentence-transformers>=5.5.1",
     "numpy>=1.24.0",
 ]