diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 17fcf466232..731d7c086fe 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ pydantic<2.0
 transformers>=4.36.0
 tifffile
 imagecodecs
-tokenizers>=0.13.3
+tokenizers>=0.15
 spacy>=2.3
 PyYAML>=3.12,<6.0.1,!=5.4.* #Exlude PyYAML 5.4.* due to incompatibility with awscli
 absl-py