diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 4e25bd9a..537e446f 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
     "sentence-transformers>=2.2.1",
     "evaluate>=0.3.0",
     "huggingface_hub>=0.13.0",
+    "transformers<4.41.0",
     "scikit-learn",
     "packaging",
 ]