diff --git a/studio/backend/requirements/extras-no-deps.txt b/studio/backend/requirements/extras-no-deps.txt
index 9934bacd24..59a8e45434 100644
--- a/studio/backend/requirements/extras-no-deps.txt
+++ b/studio/backend/requirements/extras-no-deps.txt
@@ -13,4 +13,4 @@ torch-c-dlpack-ext
 sentence_transformers==5.2.0
 transformers==4.57.6
 pytorch_tokenizers
-kernels
+kernels==0.12.1