diff --git a/sdks/python/apache_beam/examples/inference/online_clustering/clustering_pipeline/setup.py b/sdks/python/apache_beam/examples/inference/online_clustering/clustering_pipeline/setup.py
index e5d7430c0506..41cfa1e395d4 100644
--- a/sdks/python/apache_beam/examples/inference/online_clustering/clustering_pipeline/setup.py
+++ b/sdks/python/apache_beam/examples/inference/online_clustering/clustering_pipeline/setup.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 
 REQUIREMENTS = [
     "apache-beam[gcp]==2.40.0",
-    "transformers==5.3.0",
+    "transformers==5.5.0",
     "torch==2.12.0",
     "scikit-learn==1.0.2",
 ]