diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index fae56c4ceae..c80a69b5129 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ jobs:
       - checkout
       - run:
           name: Install tox
-          command: "sudo pip install retrying tox black inflect"
+          command: "sudo pip install tenacity tox black inflect"
       - run:
           name: Update jupyterlab-plotly version
           command: "cd packages/python/plotly; python setup.py updateplotlywidgetversion"
diff --git a/.circleci/create_conda_optional_env.sh b/.circleci/create_conda_optional_env.sh
index 17f3c999af8..4929c8ee529 100755
--- a/.circleci/create_conda_optional_env.sh
+++ b/.circleci/create_conda_optional_env.sh
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ if [ ! -d $HOME/miniconda/envs/circle_optional ]; then
     # Create environment
     # PYTHON_VERSION=2.7 or 3.5
     $HOME/miniconda/bin/conda create -n circle_optional --yes python=$PYTHON_VERSION \
-requests nbformat six retrying psutil pandas decorator pytest mock nose poppler xarray scikit-image ipython jupyter ipykernel ipywidgets statsmodels
+requests nbformat six retrying tenacity psutil pandas decorator pytest mock nose poppler xarray scikit-image ipython jupyter ipykernel ipywidgets statsmodels
 
     # Install orca into environment
     $HOME/miniconda/bin/conda install --yes -n circle_optional -c plotly plotly-orca==1.3.1
diff --git a/packages/python/plotly/plotly/io/_orca.py b/packages/python/plotly/plotly/io/_orca.py
index 500674b6281..63152739f17 100644
--- a/packages/python/plotly/plotly/io/_orca.py
+++ b/packages/python/plotly/plotly/io/_orca.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 from copy import copy
 from contextlib import contextmanager
 
-import retrying
+import tenacity
 from six import string_types
 
 import _plotly_utils.utils
@@ -1173,11 +1173,11 @@ def validate_executable():
 
     >>> import plotly.io as pio
     >>> pio.orca.config.use_xvfb = True
-    
+
 You can save this configuration for use in future sessions as follows:
 
-    >>> pio.orca.config.save() 
-    
+    >>> pio.orca.config.save()
+
 See https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.6/doc/man/man1/Xvfb.1.xhtml
 for more info on Xvfb
 """
@@ -1451,7 +1451,9 @@ def ensure_server():
                 orca_state["shutdown_timer"] = t
 
 
-@retrying.retry(wait_random_min=5, wait_random_max=10, stop_max_delay=60000)
+@tenacity.retry(
+    wait=tenacity.wait_random(min=5, max=10), stop=tenacity.stop_after_delay(60000),
+)
 def request_image_with_retrying(**kwargs):
     """
     Helper method to perform an image request to a running orca server process
diff --git a/packages/python/plotly/recipe/meta.yaml b/packages/python/plotly/recipe/meta.yaml
index 2110405d335..cbb2683d1e4 100644
--- a/packages/python/plotly/recipe/meta.yaml
+++ b/packages/python/plotly/recipe/meta.yaml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ requirements:
     - setuptools
   run:
     - python
-    - retrying >=1.3.3
+    - tenacity >=6.2.0
     - six
 
 test:
diff --git a/packages/python/plotly/requirements.txt b/packages/python/plotly/requirements.txt
index 496204893c7..6800b7f43a5 100644
--- a/packages/python/plotly/requirements.txt
+++ b/packages/python/plotly/requirements.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 ###################################################
 
 ## python 2 to 3 compatibility ##
-six==1.8.0
+six==1.15.0
 
 ## retrying requests ##
-retrying==1.3.3
+tenacity>=6.2.0
diff --git a/packages/python/plotly/setup.py b/packages/python/plotly/setup.py
index 395111c03e9..566d0c2c6ba 100644
--- a/packages/python/plotly/setup.py
+++ b/packages/python/plotly/setup.py
@@ -505,7 +505,7 @@ def run(self):
         ),
         ("etc/jupyter/nbconfig/notebook.d", ["plotlywidget.json"]),
     ],
-    install_requires=["retrying>=1.3.3", "six"],
+    install_requires=["tenacity>=6.2.0", "six"],
     zip_safe=False,
     cmdclass=dict(
         build_py=js_prerelease(versioneer_cmds["build_py"]),
diff --git a/packages/python/plotly/tox.ini b/packages/python/plotly/tox.ini
index 72169192a08..f27db05b7f5 100644
--- a/packages/python/plotly/tox.ini
+++ b/packages/python/plotly/tox.ini
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ deps=
     requests==2.12.4
     six==1.10.0
     pytz==2016.10
-    retrying==1.3.3
+    tenacity==6.2.0
     pytest==3.5.1
     pandas==0.24.2
     xarray==0.10.9