diff --git a/tests/test_benchmarks.py b/tests/test_benchmarks.py
index df5902c7d..396faab0b 100644
--- a/tests/test_benchmarks.py
+++ b/tests/test_benchmarks.py
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ def test_synset_distance_comparisons(self):
             ]
         })
 
-        self.assert_response_duration(1.9, kwargs)
+        self.assert_response_duration(3.5, kwargs)
 
     def test_english_corpus_training(self):
         """