diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 04cae22e6..00c85a6c6 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -6,5 +6,5 @@ pymongo>=3.3,<4.0
 python-dateutil>=2.7,<2.8
 pyyaml>=5.1,<5.2
 spacy>=2.1,<2.2
-sqlalchemy>=1.2,<1.3
+sqlalchemy>=1.3,<1.4
 pytz