diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 6029213..d302c12 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]
 dev = [
-    "grpcio-tools==1.56.2",  # needed for compiling protos from python directly
+    "grpcio-tools==1.76.0",  # needed for compiling protos from python directly
     "pytest>=7.4.0",
     "pre-commit>=4.3.0",
     # pre-commit installs its own version of the tools below,