diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 79aae00c76..6f4edbd788 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -436,6 +436,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "strum_macros 0.24.3",
  "test-case",
  "thiserror",
+ "toml",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 217ddbdcae..0fece228b8 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ strum = "0.24.1"
 strum_macros = "0.24.3"
 tempfile = "3.7.0"
 test-case = "2.2.2"
+toml = "0.8"
 thiserror = "1.0.37"
 
 [workspace.lints.rust]
diff --git a/crates/blockifier/Cargo.toml b/crates/blockifier/Cargo.toml
index e63f33baef..8140763d96 100644
--- a/crates/blockifier/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/blockifier/Cargo.toml
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ starknet_api = { workspace = true, features = ["testing"] }
 strum.workspace = true
 strum_macros.workspace = true
 thiserror.workspace = true
+toml.workspace = true
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 assert_matches.workspace = true
diff --git a/crates/blockifier/src/test_utils/cairo_compile.rs b/crates/blockifier/src/test_utils/cairo_compile.rs
index ad9568da37..74a62b4a64 100644
--- a/crates/blockifier/src/test_utils/cairo_compile.rs
+++ b/crates/blockifier/src/test_utils/cairo_compile.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,54 @@
 use std::process::Command;
 
+use cached::proc_macro::cached;
+use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
+
+/// Objects for simple deserialization of Cargo.toml to fetch the Cairo1 compiler version.
+/// The compiler itself isn't actually a dependency, so we compile by using the version of the
+/// cairo-lang-casm crate.
+/// The choice of cairo-lang-casm is arbitrary, as all compiler crate dependencies should have the
+/// same version.
+/// Deserializes:
+/// """
+/// ...
+/// [workspace.dependencies]
+/// ...
+/// cairo-lang-casm = VERSION
+/// ...
+/// """
+/// where `VERSION` can be a simple "x.y.z" version string or an object with a "version" field.
+#[derive(Debug, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+#[serde(untagged)]
+enum DependencyValue {
+    String(String),
+    Object { version: String },
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+struct CairoLangCasmDependency {
+    #[serde(rename = "cairo-lang-casm")]
+    cairo_lang_casm: DependencyValue,
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+struct WorkspaceFields {
+    dependencies: CairoLangCasmDependency,
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+struct CargoToml {
+    workspace: WorkspaceFields,
+}
+
+#[cached]
+/// Returns the version of the Cairo1 compiler* defined in the root Cargo.toml.
+pub fn cairo1_compiler_version() -> String {
+    let cargo_toml: CargoToml = toml::from_str(include_str!("../../../../Cargo.toml")).unwrap();
+    match cargo_toml.workspace.dependencies.cairo_lang_casm {
+        DependencyValue::String(version) | DependencyValue::Object { version } => version.clone(),
+    }
+}
+
 /// Compiles a Cairo0 program using the deprecated compiler.
 pub fn cairo0_compile(path: String, extra_arg: Option<String>, debug_info: bool) -> Vec<u8> {
     let mut command = Command::new("starknet-compile-deprecated");