diff --git a/templates/cassandra-entomology-rag/pyproject.toml b/templates/cassandra-entomology-rag/pyproject.toml
index b84377ab5bf5a..4f30cb49878c9 100644
--- a/templates/cassandra-entomology-rag/pyproject.toml
+++ b/templates/cassandra-entomology-rag/pyproject.toml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ authors = ["Stefano Lottini <stefano.lottini@datastax.com>"]
 readme = "README.md"
 
 [tool.poetry.dependencies]
-python = "^3.11"
+python = ">=3.8.1,<4.0"
 langchain = ">=0.0.313"
 openai = "^0.28.1"
 tiktoken = "^0.5.1"
diff --git a/templates/cassandra-synonym-caching/pyproject.toml b/templates/cassandra-synonym-caching/pyproject.toml
index b416ab58389bb..8ca03a0f559c7 100644
--- a/templates/cassandra-synonym-caching/pyproject.toml
+++ b/templates/cassandra-synonym-caching/pyproject.toml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ authors = ["Stefano Lottini <stefano.lottini@datastax.com>"]
 readme = "README.md"
 
 [tool.poetry.dependencies]
-python = "^3.11"
+python = ">=3.8.1,<4.0"
 langchain = ">=0.0.313"
 openai = "^0.28.1"
 tiktoken = "^0.5.1"
diff --git a/templates/csv-agent/pyproject.toml b/templates/csv-agent/pyproject.toml
index b318ac72bb994..f9ea867dd752c 100644
--- a/templates/csv-agent/pyproject.toml
+++ b/templates/csv-agent/pyproject.toml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ authors = []
 readme = "README.md"
 
 [tool.poetry.dependencies]
-python = ">=3.9.1,<3.13"
+python = ">=3.8.1,<4.0"
 langchain = ">=0.0.313"
 openai = "^0.28.1"
 tiktoken = "^0.5.1"
diff --git a/templates/plate-chain/pyproject.toml b/templates/plate-chain/pyproject.toml
index 66939d8222dd3..da824fc2a42bd 100644
--- a/templates/plate-chain/pyproject.toml
+++ b/templates/plate-chain/pyproject.toml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ authors = []
 readme = "README.md"
 
 [tool.poetry.dependencies]
-python = ">=3.9,<4.0"
+python = ">=3.8.1,<4.0"
 langchain = ">=0.0.313, <0.1"
 openai = "^0.28.1"
 langserve = "^0.0.19"
diff --git a/templates/rag-elasticsearch/pyproject.toml b/templates/rag-elasticsearch/pyproject.toml
index 08a7bed8b6d79..f452f7982c8dd 100644
--- a/templates/rag-elasticsearch/pyproject.toml
+++ b/templates/rag-elasticsearch/pyproject.toml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ authors = ["Joe McElroy <joseph.mcelroy@elastic.co>"]
 readme = "README.md"
 
 [tool.poetry.dependencies]
-python = "^3.9"
+python = ">=3.8.1,<4.0"
 langchain = ">=0.0.313"
 openai = "^0.28.1"
 elasticsearch = "^8.10.0"