diff --git a/airflow-core/pyproject.toml b/airflow-core/pyproject.toml
index d20c1a0273d0b..6818580441a33 100644
--- a/airflow-core/pyproject.toml
+++ b/airflow-core/pyproject.toml
@@ -144,7 +144,6 @@ dependencies = [
     "apache-airflow-providers-openlineage>=2.1.2",
     "apache-airflow-providers-smtp>=2.0.1",
     "apache-airflow-providers-standard>=0.2.0",
-    "apache-airflow-providers-sqlite>=4.0.1",
 ]
 
 
@@ -293,6 +292,7 @@ dev = [
     "apache-airflow-providers-git",
     # TODO(potiuk): check if this is really needed
     "apache-airflow-providers-ftp",
+    "apache-airflow-providers-sqlite",
 ]
 
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