diff --git a/backend/python/sentencetransformers/requirements.txt b/backend/python/sentencetransformers/requirements.txt
index dd95f6a4..9f0d0e63 100644
--- a/backend/python/sentencetransformers/requirements.txt
+++ b/backend/python/sentencetransformers/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 accelerate
-sentence-transformers==2.5.1
+sentence-transformers==3.0.1
 transformers
 grpcio==1.64.1
 protobuf