diff --git a/opentelemetry-api/pyproject.toml b/opentelemetry-api/pyproject.toml
index ae1344329f0..73a836c2014 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-api/pyproject.toml
+++ b/opentelemetry-api/pyproject.toml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "Deprecated >= 1.2.6",
     # FIXME This should be able to be removed after 3.12 is released if there is a reliable API
     # in importlib.metadata.
-    "importlib-metadata >= 6.0, <= 8.5.0",
+    "importlib-metadata >= 6.0, < 8.7.0",
 ]
 dynamic = [
     "version",
diff --git a/opentelemetry-api/test-requirements.txt b/opentelemetry-api/test-requirements.txt
index e8020bf4888..3cd0616c7cb 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-api/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/opentelemetry-api/test-requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 asgiref==3.7.2
 Deprecated==1.2.14
-importlib-metadata==8.5.0
+importlib-metadata==8.5.0 ; python_version < "3.9"
+importlib-metadata==8.6.1 ; python_version >= "3.9"
 iniconfig==2.0.0
 packaging==24.0
 pluggy==1.5.0