diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 77ff739..1c08c4c 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ requires = [
     "cmake; platform_machine not in 'armv7l|armv6l|arm64|aarch64'",
     "ninja; platform_system!='Windows' and platform_machine not in 'armv7l|armv6l|arm64|aarch64'",
     "oldest-supported-numpy",
-    "Cython==3.0.0a10",
     "rapidfuzz_capi==1.0.5"
 ]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"