diff --git a/requirements/base_external.txt b/requirements/base_external.txt
index b036a28265..1a78ef8647 100644
--- a/requirements/base_external.txt
+++ b/requirements/base_external.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-transformers[torch]>=4.12,<5
+transformers[torch]==4.30.0
 tqdm>=4.27
 pyarrow>=1.0
 torchmetrics>=0.10.0