diff --git a/examples/hyper-prometheus/Cargo.toml b/examples/hyper-prometheus/Cargo.toml
index cebfdaf05d..091d3b7abd 100644
--- a/examples/hyper-prometheus/Cargo.toml
+++ b/examples/hyper-prometheus/Cargo.toml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ publish = false
 [dependencies]
 opentelemetry = { path = "../../opentelemetry", features = ["rt-tokio"] }
 opentelemetry-prometheus = { path = "../../opentelemetry-prometheus" }
-prometheus = "0.12"
+prometheus = "0.13"
 lazy_static = "1.4"
 hyper = { version = "0.14", features = ["full"] }
 tokio = { version = "1", features = ["full"] }
diff --git a/opentelemetry-prometheus/Cargo.toml b/opentelemetry-prometheus/Cargo.toml
index 8cf6f9d0a7..4549c32851 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-prometheus/Cargo.toml
+++ b/opentelemetry-prometheus/Cargo.toml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ rustdoc-args = ["--cfg", "docsrs"]
 
 [dependencies]
 opentelemetry = { version = "0.16", path = "../opentelemetry", default-features = false, features = ["metrics"] }
-prometheus = "0.12"
+prometheus = "0.13"
 protobuf = "2.14"
 
 [dev-dependencies]