diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index b9847fecd5..8bdf7c702b 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 name = "arize-phoenix"
 description = "AI Observability and Evaluation"
 readme = "README.md"
-requires-python = ">=3.8, <3.13"
+requires-python = ">=3.9, <3.13"
 license = {text="Elastic-2.0"}
 license-files = { paths = ["LICENSE", "IP_NOTICE"] }
 keywords = [
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ authors = [
 ]
 classifiers = [
   "Programming Language :: Python",
-  "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
   "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
   "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
   "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",