diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 3f46c01..f0c66b5 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ requires = [
     "cmake",
     "ninja; platform_system!='Windows'",
     "oldest-supported-numpy",
-    "Cython==3.0.0a10",
     "rapidfuzz_capi==1.0.5"
 ]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"