diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 9d08240bc..321de8908 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ readme = "README.md"
 [tool.poetry.dependencies]
 python = "^3.8"
 openai = "^0.27.8"
-python-dotenv = "^1.0.0"
+python-dotenv = ">=0.2.0"
 tiktoken = "^0.4.0"
 importlib-metadata = "^6.8.0"