diff --git a/.circleci/requirements.txt b/.circleci/requirements.txt
index 642743d3c..13c5f5eee 100644
--- a/.circleci/requirements.txt
+++ b/.circleci/requirements.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 # used by CI/CD testing
-openai
+openai=0.28.0
 python-dotenv
-openai
 tiktoken
 importlib_metadata
 baseten