diff --git a/.github/workflows/codespell-private.yml b/.github/workflows/codespell-private.yml
index 2b775aa790..d2993442af 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/codespell-private.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/codespell-private.yml
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ jobs:
       - run: codespell --help
       - run: codespell --version
       - run: make check
-      - uses: codecov/codecov-action@v4
+      - uses: codecov/codecov-action@v3
       # tomli should not be required for the next two steps (and make sure it's not)
       - run: pip uninstall -yq tomli
         if: ${{ matrix.no-toml == 'no-toml' }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/codespell-windows.yml b/.github/workflows/codespell-windows.yml
index fd8ce5662f..3bfe09459e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/codespell-windows.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/codespell-windows.yml
@@ -24,4 +24,4 @@ jobs:
       - run: codespell --help
       - run: codespell --version
       - run: pytest codespell_lib
-      - uses: codecov/codecov-action@v4
+      - uses: codecov/codecov-action@v3