diff --git a/requirements-tests.txt b/requirements-tests.txt
index bfe70f2f5..801cf9dd4 100644
--- a/requirements-tests.txt
+++ b/requirements-tests.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ ruff ==0.2.0
 dirty-equals ==0.6.0
 # TODO: once removing databases from tutorial, upgrade SQLAlchemy
 # probably when including SQLModel
-sqlalchemy >=1.3.18,<1.4.43
+sqlalchemy >=1.3.18,<2.0.33
 databases[sqlite] >=0.3.2,<0.7.0
 flask >=1.1.2,<3.0.0
 anyio[trio] >=3.2.1,<4.0.0