diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index ef2d789..ccfa39c 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@ nltk==3.7
 requests==2.27.1
 numpy==1.22.0
 torch==1.10.2
-transformers==4.12.3
+transformers==4.30.0
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 0f61b3d..23a8a45 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
     install_requires=['torch',                     
                       'numpy',
                       #'tokenizers==0.6.0',
-                      'transformers==4.16.2',
+                      'transformers==4.30.0',
                       'pandas',                     
                       ],
     classifiers=[
diff --git a/toxigen.egg-info/requires.txt b/toxigen.egg-info/requires.txt
index eeb7fbc..5b2a0b4 100644
--- a/toxigen.egg-info/requires.txt
+++ b/toxigen.egg-info/requires.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 torch
 numpy
-transformers==4.16.2
+transformers==4.30.0
 pandas