diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 470fed2..72c5195 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ numpy>=1.24                          # 2.5.3 tested
 
 # ── ONNX export + quantization + CPU inference ──
 onnx>=1.15                           # 1.23.1 tested; required by torch.onnx.export
-onnxruntime>=1.17                    # 1.30.0 tested; CPU inference + int8 quantization
+onnxruntime>=1.24.3                    # 1.30.0 tested; CPU inference + int8 quantization
 
 # ── Tokenizer (rust, zero-Python deps; for ONNX bundle deployment) ──
 tokenizers>=0.20                     # 0.23.2 tested; standalone .json tokenizer loading