diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 878c3e3..11ac52e 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ dev = [
     "tox",
     "anywidget",
     "ipywidgets",
-    "vcrpy==6.0.2",  # pin to avoid flakey newer
+    "vcrpy==8.2.1",  # pin to avoid flakey newer
     "granite-io[transformers]",
     "granite-io[nltk]",
     "granite-io[openai]",