diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index b95c2282..42ea2a8e 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ backend = [
     "nbclient>=0.10.1",
     "pytest>=8.4.1",
     "nbmake>=1.5.5",
-    "gql<4",
+    "gql>=4.0.0",
     "nvidia-cudnn-frontend<1.21 ; sys_platform == 'linux'",
     "vllm @ https://github.com/vivekkalyan/vllm/releases/download/v0.17.0-art1/vllm-0.17.0%2Bart1-cp38-abi3-manylinux_2_31_x86_64.whl ; sys_platform == 'linux'",
 ]