diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index fe910505e3..20dbc5433f 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ test = [
     "colorama>=0.4.1",
     "readchar>=3.0",
     "ruff",
-    "pytest>=6.0.0",
+    "pytest>=6.0.0,<8.1.0",
     "pytest-cov>=2.9.0",
     "pytest-doctestplus>=0.10.0",
     "requests_mock>=1.0",