diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index fda4b781..e23dabc2 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ dependencies = [
   "emoji==1.7.0",
   "flask==3.0.3",
   "gensim>=4.3.3",
-  "matplotlib==3.0.0",
+  "matplotlib>=3.0.0",
   "nltk==3.9.1",
   "numpy<2.0.0",
   "pandas==2.2.2",
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 5c86c0fb..83fb603e 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ convokit==3.0.0
 emoji==1.7.0
 flask==3.0.3
 gensim>=4.3.3
-matplotlib==3.0.0
+matplotlib>=3.0.0
 nltk==3.9.1
 numpy<2.0.0
 pandas==2.2.2