diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 18f3c202e06..dcc275e2071 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
     "toposort>=1.0",
     "GPUtil>=1.4.0",
     "protobuf>=3.12.2,<4",
-    "click==8.0",
+    "click~=8.0.0",
 ]
 _nm_deps = [f"{'sparsezoo' if is_release else 'sparsezoo-nightly'}~={version_nm_deps}"]
 _deepsparse_deps = [