diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index d5710eb7..15acb6e6 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ dependencies = [
 dev = ["black~=25.1.0", "isort~=6.0.1", "pre-commit~=4.2.0"]
 test = ["pytest~=8.4.0"]
 evolve = ["ray", "cma", "lm_eval", "wandb"]
-vllm = ["vllm==0.7.2", "lm_eval[vllm]"]
+vllm = ["vllm==0.23.0", "lm_eval[vllm]"]
 
 [project.urls]
 repository = "https://github.com/cg123/mergekit"