diff --git a/packages/util/requirements.txt b/packages/util/requirements.txt
index 47b453fb12f..3000635b9bc 100644
--- a/packages/util/requirements.txt
+++ b/packages/util/requirements.txt
@@ -7,4 +7,5 @@ pyyaml
 requests
 routes
 six>=1.9.0
+SQLAlchemy>=1.4.20,<2
 zipstream-new