diff --git a/opentelemetry-api/pyproject.toml b/opentelemetry-api/pyproject.toml
index 7278412f258..999e5ffe870 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-api/pyproject.toml
+++ b/opentelemetry-api/pyproject.toml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "Deprecated >= 1.2.6",
     # FIXME This should be able to be removed after 3.12 is released if there is a reliable API
     # in importlib.metadata.
-    "importlib-metadata >= 6.0, <= 8.0.0",
+    "importlib-metadata >= 6.0, <= 8.2.0",
 ]
 dynamic = [
     "version",
diff --git a/opentelemetry-api/test-requirements.txt b/opentelemetry-api/test-requirements.txt
index 9dbb8596c71..b8ac6b632b8 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-api/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/opentelemetry-api/test-requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 asgiref==3.7.2
 Deprecated==1.2.14
-importlib-metadata==6.11.0
+importlib-metadata==8.2.0
 iniconfig==2.0.0
 packaging==24.0
 pluggy==1.5.0