diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index bf361a62..4d3265e2 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 
 extras = {}
 
-extras["st"] = ["sentence_transformers==2.7.0"]
+extras["st"] = ["sentence_transformers==3.1.1"]
 extras["diffusers"] = ["diffusers==0.30.0", "accelerate==0.33.0"]
 # Includes `peft` as PEFT requires `torch` so having `peft` as a core dependency
 # means that `torch` will be installed even if the `torch` extra is not specified.