diff --git a/backend/requirements.txt b/backend/requirements.txt
index 8197ecd..d474296 100644
--- a/backend/requirements.txt
+++ b/backend/requirements.txt
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ prompt-toolkit==2.0.9
 ptyprocess==0.6.0
 py==1.8.0
 pycparser==2.19
-pydantic==0.21
+pydantic==1.6.2
 Pygments==2.3.1
 PyJWT==1.7.1
 pytest==4.4.0