diff --git a/packages/react-native-gradle-plugin/build.gradle.kts b/packages/react-native-gradle-plugin/build.gradle.kts
index 9346508f497062..dfb97e03e09968 100644
--- a/packages/react-native-gradle-plugin/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/packages/react-native-gradle-plugin/build.gradle.kts
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
 
 import org.gradle.api.internal.classpath.ModuleRegistry
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.testing.logging.TestExceptionFormat
-import org.gradle.configurationcache.extensions.serviceOf
 import org.jetbrains.kotlin.gradle.tasks.KotlinCompile
 
 plugins {
@@ -48,14 +47,6 @@ dependencies {
   implementation(libs.javapoet)
 
   testImplementation(libs.junit)
-
-  testRuntimeOnly(
-      files(
-          serviceOf<ModuleRegistry>()
-              .getModule("gradle-tooling-api-builders")
-              .classpath
-              .asFiles
-              .first()))
 }
 
 // We intentionally don't build for Java 17 as users will see a cryptic bytecode version