diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 4a3d103f975..679dedd9f2f 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ ci_publish = [
 ]
 
 ci_benchmark = [
-    "pandas==2.2.2",
+    "pandas<2.2",       # To avoid conflict with nncf==2.9.0
     "matplotlib==3.8.4",
     "nbconvert==7.16.3",
     "ipython==8.23.0",