diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 8174b8a..54e4bbc 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ mcp = [
 ]
 semantic = [
     "numpy>=1.24",
-    "onnxruntime>=1.16",
+    "onnxruntime>=1.20.1",
     "tokenizers>=0.15",
 ]
 leiden = [