diff --git a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-grpc/pyproject.toml b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-grpc/pyproject.toml
index 750f76270a..7deffb71e7 100644
--- a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-grpc/pyproject.toml
+++ b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-grpc/pyproject.toml
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ classifiers = [
 dependencies = [
   "opentelemetry-api ~= 1.12",
   "opentelemetry-instrumentation == 0.46b0.dev",
-  "opentelemetry-sdk ~= 1.12",
   "opentelemetry-semantic-conventions == 0.46b0.dev",
   "wrapt >= 1.0.0, < 2.0.0",
 ]