diff --git a/conda-recipe/meta.yaml b/conda-recipe/meta.yaml
index 947c00ecb47..c005536c0ea 100644
--- a/conda-recipe/meta.yaml
+++ b/conda-recipe/meta.yaml
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ requirements:
     - keyring
     - keyrings.alt
     - networkx
-    - numpy >=1.20.0
+    - numpy >=1.20.0,<2
     - openpyxl
     - openTSNE >=0.6.1,!=0.7.0
     - pandas >=1.4.0,!=1.5.0,!=2.0.0
diff --git a/requirements-core.txt b/requirements-core.txt
index 2b3058f7912..3975a67080c 100644
--- a/requirements-core.txt
+++ b/requirements-core.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ joblib>=1.1.1
 keyring
 keyrings.alt    # for alternative keyring implementations
 networkx
-numpy>=1.20.0
+numpy>=1.20.0,<2
 openpyxl
 openTSNE>=0.6.1,!=0.7.0  # 0.7.0 segfaults
 packaging