diff --git a/requirements/common.txt b/requirements/common.txt
index 8e483cc712..b6b33efa92 100644
--- a/requirements/common.txt
+++ b/requirements/common.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ requests >= 2.33.0
 tqdm
 blake3
 py-cpuinfo
-transformers >= 5.16.1
+transformers >= 5.16.1, < 5.18.0
 huggingface_hub >= 1.31.0  # Required for the `huggingface_hub.utils.httpx` re-export
 tokenizers >= 0.22.0  # Required for fast incremental detokenization.
 safetensors >= 0.6.2  # MXFP4/MXFP6 dtype support (F8_E8M0, F4) added in 0.6.0: https://github.com/huggingface/safetensors/pull/611