diff --git a/py-polars/requirements-dev.txt b/py-polars/requirements-dev.txt
index f63137249749d..a0ea5dfcefafa 100644
--- a/py-polars/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/py-polars/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ XlsxWriter
 # https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs/pull/1602
 deltalake == 0.10.1
 # Dataframe interchange protocol
-dataframe-api-compat >= 0.1.6
+dataframe-api-compat >= 0.1.6, < 0.1.20
 pyiceberg >= 0.5.0
 # Other
 matplotlib