diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 4fad4111d..e3593e815 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ jobs:
             pip install opentelemetry-api==1.25.0
             pip install opentelemetry-sdk==1.25.0
             pip install opentelemetry-exporter-otlp==1.25.0
-            pip install openai
+            pip install openai==1.34.0
             pip install prisma   
             pip install "detect_secrets==1.5.0"         
             pip install "httpx==0.24.1"
diff --git a/.circleci/requirements.txt b/.circleci/requirements.txt
index c4225a9aa..d657e265c 100644
--- a/.circleci/requirements.txt
+++ b/.circleci/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # used by CI/CD testing
-openai
+openai==1.34.0
 python-dotenv
 tiktoken
 importlib_metadata