diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 4fcb1d7..af19a4a 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ requires = [
     "setuptools>=42",
     "scikit-build==0.14.1; platform_system=='Linux'",
     "scikit-build==0.15.0; platform_system!='Linux'",
-    "Cython==3.0.0a11",
     "rapidfuzz_capi==1.0.5"
 ]
 build-backend = "backend"