diff --git a/metadata-ingestion/setup.py b/metadata-ingestion/setup.py
index d4e2ada1fc68f..858cd4adce0fc 100644
--- a/metadata-ingestion/setup.py
+++ b/metadata-ingestion/setup.py
@@ -186,8 +186,6 @@
     "cryptography",
     "msal",
     "acryl-datahub-classify==0.0.9",
-    # spacy version restricted to reduce backtracking, used by acryl-datahub-classify,
-    "spacy==3.4.3",
 }
 
 trino = {