diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index e8b34d2a88..1cd12796b7 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -54,7 +54,6 @@ dependencies = [
     "importlib_metadata>=3.6",
     "packaging",
     "sopel-help>=0.4.0",
-    "sopel-py>=1.0.1",  # TODO: drop for 8.1
 ]
 
 [project.urls]