diff --git a/conda/meta.yaml b/conda/meta.yaml
index 3ddfaf655..582c1a066 100644
--- a/conda/meta.yaml
+++ b/conda/meta.yaml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ requirements:
     - python >=3.8,<3.13
   run:
     - python >=3.8,<3.13
-    - python-confluent-kafka >=2.2,<2.6
+    - python-confluent-kafka >=2.2,<2.5
     - requests >=2.32
     - typing_extensions >=4.8
     - orjson >=3.9,<4
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 92603a65f..fc8b8ff6e 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-confluent-kafka>=2.2,<2.6
+confluent-kafka>=2.2,<2.5
 requests>=2.32
 rocksdict>=0.3, <0.4
 typing_extensions>=4.8