diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index e6b51d657..4b746a110 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "spacy==3.7.2",
     "sacrebleu",
     "rouge_score==0.1.2",
-    "sentencepiece==0.1.99",
+    "sentencepiece>=0.1.99",
     "protobuf==3.20.*", # pinned for sentencepiece compat
     "pycountry",
     # Code style