diff --git a/docker_images/sentence_transformers/requirements.txt b/docker_images/sentence_transformers/requirements.txt
index 686e5f2e..bf6efac5 100644
--- a/docker_images/sentence_transformers/requirements.txt
+++ b/docker_images/sentence_transformers/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 starlette==0.27.0
 api-inference-community==0.0.32
 sentence-transformers==3.0.1
+sentencepiece==0.2.0
 transformers==4.41.1
 tokenizers==0.19.1
 protobuf==3.18.3