diff --git a/java-compute/google-cloud-compute/pom.xml b/java-compute/google-cloud-compute/pom.xml
index 0391b9500cd0..8fd6f431a1e6 100644
--- a/java-compute/google-cloud-compute/pom.xml
+++ b/java-compute/google-cloud-compute/pom.xml
@@ -34,14 +34,6 @@
       <groupId>com.google.api</groupId>
       <artifactId>gax</artifactId>
     </dependency>
-
-    <!-- gax-grpc brings in Protobuf reflection configurations which are needed
-    for native image compilation. -->
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>com.google.api</groupId>
-      <artifactId>gax-grpc</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
-
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.api</groupId>
       <artifactId>gax-httpjson</artifactId>