diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 23f7344..1ac8edd 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ dependencies = [
 [project.optional-dependencies]
 cedar = ["cedarpy"]
 avp = ["boto3"]
-reic = ["sentence-transformers>=2.2.0", "faiss-cpu>=1.7.0"]
+reic = ["sentence-transformers>=5.4.1", "faiss-cpu>=1.7.0"]
 hooks = ["pre-commit>=3.7.0", "bandit[toml]>=1.7.9", "pip-audit>=2.7.0", "detect-secrets>=1.5.0"]
 
 [tool.pytest.ini_options]