diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 082d5c9..b603c1d 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ rayon = "1.10"
 unicode-normalization = "0.1"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
-criterion = { version = "0.5", features = ["html_reports"] }
+criterion = { version = "0.8", features = ["html_reports"] }
 
 [[bench]]
 name = "inference_bench"