diff --git a/elq/requirements.txt b/elq/requirements.txt
index 91a0455f..d4418158 100644
--- a/elq/requirements.txt
+++ b/elq/requirements.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ numpy==1.17.2
 segtok==1.5.7
 flair==0.4.3
 pytorch-transformers==1.2.0
-transformers==3.1.0
+transformers==4.30.0
 colorama==0.4.3
 termcolor==1.1.0
 faiss-cpu>=1.6.1