diff --git a/mne/_fiff/tests/test_constants.py b/mne/_fiff/tests/test_constants.py
index e8baff2f1d3..43ea2290346 100644
--- a/mne/_fiff/tests/test_constants.py
+++ b/mne/_fiff/tests/test_constants.py
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
 import numpy as np
 import pooch
 import pytest
-from flaky import flaky
 
 from mne._fiff.constants import (
     FIFF,
@@ -118,7 +117,7 @@
 )
 
 
-@flaky
+@pytest.mark.flaky
 @requires_good_network
 @pytest.mark.ultraslowtest  # not that slow, just doesn't need to run very often
 def test_constants(tmp_path):
diff --git a/mne/channels/tests/test_channels.py b/mne/channels/tests/test_channels.py
index e3dc5904e5b..697b49e7943 100644
--- a/mne/channels/tests/test_channels.py
+++ b/mne/channels/tests/test_channels.py
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
 import numpy as np
 import pooch
 import pytest
-from flaky import flaky
 from numpy.testing import assert_allclose, assert_array_equal, assert_equal
 from scipy.io import savemat
 
@@ -359,7 +358,7 @@ def test_read_ch_adjacency(tmp_path):
 
 # This test is ~15s long across all montages, and we shouldn't need to check super
 # often for mismatches. So let's mark it ultraslowtest so only one CI runs it.
-@flaky
+@pytest.mark.flaky
 @pytest.mark.ultraslowtest
 @requires_good_network
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("adj", _CHECK_ADJ)
diff --git a/mne/io/eeglab/tests/test_eeglab.py b/mne/io/eeglab/tests/test_eeglab.py
index 2b05d8da14d..a042566fbc9 100644
--- a/mne/io/eeglab/tests/test_eeglab.py
+++ b/mne/io/eeglab/tests/test_eeglab.py
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
 
 import numpy as np
 import pytest
-from flaky import flaky
 from numpy.testing import (
     assert_allclose,
     assert_array_almost_equal,
@@ -769,7 +768,7 @@ def test_eeglab_drop_nan_annotations(tmp_path):
         raw = read_raw_eeglab(file_path, preload=True)
 
 
-@flaky
+@pytest.mark.flaky
 @testing.requires_testing_data
 @pytest.mark.timeout(10)
 @pytest.mark.slowtest  # has the advantage of not running on macOS where it errs a lot
diff --git a/mne/utils/tests/test_config.py b/mne/utils/tests/test_config.py
index 41148827838..0940472569d 100644
--- a/mne/utils/tests/test_config.py
+++ b/mne/utils/tests/test_config.py
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
 from urllib.error import URLError
 
 import pytest
-from flaky import flaky
 
 import mne
 import mne.utils.config
@@ -179,7 +178,7 @@ def test_get_subjects_dir(tmp_path, monkeypatch):
         get_subjects_dir(raise_error=True)
 
 
-@flaky(max_runs=3)
+@pytest.mark.flaky(reruns=3)
 @pytest.mark.ultraslowtest  # not ultraslow, just flaky and not changed often
 @requires_good_network
 def test_sys_info_check_outdated(monkeypatch):
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 84536bf174b..4bcb69b0655 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ doc = [
 ]
 test = [
   "codespell",
-  "flaky",
   "ipython != 8.7.0",  # for testing notebook backend; also in "full-no-qt" and "doc"
   "mypy",
   "numpydoc",
@@ -44,6 +43,7 @@ test = [
   "pytest >= 8.0",
   "pytest-cov",
   "pytest-qt",
+  "pytest-rerunfailures",
   "pytest-timeout",
   "ruff",
   "toml-sort",