diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index da3e2be9b2..8488e38d4d 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@ repos:
           # Package dependencies
           - packaging
           - donfig
-          - numcodecs[crc32c]
+          - numcodecs
+          - google-crc32c>=1.5
           - numpy==2.1 # until https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/28034 is resolved
           - typing_extensions
           - universal-pathlib
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 56ba14fa7e..7f14971396 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -34,7 +34,8 @@ requires-python = ">=3.11"
 dependencies = [
     'packaging>=22.0',
     'numpy>=1.26',
-    'numcodecs[crc32c]>=0.14',
+    'numcodecs>=0.14',
+    'google-crc32c>=1.5',
     'typing_extensions>=4.9',
     'donfig>=0.8',
 ]
diff --git a/src/zarr/codecs/crc32c_.py b/src/zarr/codecs/crc32c_.py
index b2ea356b0c..9536d0d558 100644
--- a/src/zarr/codecs/crc32c_.py
+++ b/src/zarr/codecs/crc32c_.py
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@
 from dataclasses import dataclass
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, cast
 
+import google_crc32c
 import numpy as np
 import typing_extensions
-from crc32c import crc32c
 
 from zarr.abc.codec import BytesBytesCodec
 from zarr.core.common import JSON, parse_named_configuration
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ async def _decode_single(
 
         # Need to do a manual cast until https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/26783 is resolved
         computed_checksum = np.uint32(
-            crc32c(cast("typing_extensions.Buffer", inner_bytes))
+            google_crc32c.value(cast("typing_extensions.Buffer", inner_bytes))
         ).tobytes()
         stored_checksum = bytes(crc32_bytes)
         if computed_checksum != stored_checksum:
@@ -58,7 +58,9 @@ async def _encode_single(
     ) -> Buffer | None:
         data = chunk_bytes.as_numpy_array()
         # Calculate the checksum and "cast" it to a numpy array
-        checksum = np.array([crc32c(cast("typing_extensions.Buffer", data))], dtype=np.uint32)
+        checksum = np.array(
+            [google_crc32c.value(cast("typing_extensions.Buffer", data))], dtype=np.uint32
+        )
         # Append the checksum (as bytes) to the data
         return chunk_spec.prototype.buffer.from_array_like(np.append(data, checksum.view("B")))