diff --git a/.circleci/create_circleci_config.py b/.circleci/create_circleci_config.py
index 787bdb475..e4342397a 100644
--- a/.circleci/create_circleci_config.py
+++ b/.circleci/create_circleci_config.py
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ class CircleCIJob:
                     "command": f"TESTS=$(circleci tests split  --split-by=timings {self.job_name}_test_list.txt) && echo $TESTS > splitted_tests.txt && echo $TESTS | tr ' ' '\n'" if self.parallelism else f"awk '{{printf \"%s \", $0}}' {self.job_name}_test_list.txt > splitted_tests.txt"
                     }
             },
-            {"run": "pip install -U pytest"},
+            {"run": "pip install -U pytest==7.4.4"},
             {"run": "pip install pytest-flakefinder"},
             # {"run": {
             #     "name": "Run tests",