diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 279fafb56..121aed302 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -18,9 +18,7 @@
     "sqlakeyset",
     "stac-pydantic>=1.3.5",
     "pydantic[dotenv]",
-    "cogeo-mosaic==3.0a10",
-    "titiler==0.1a2",
-    "rio-cogeo==2.0a5",
+    "titiler==0.1.0a12",
 ]
 
 extra_reqs = {
diff --git a/stac_api/api/extensions/tiles.py b/stac_api/api/extensions/tiles.py
index 1f02c07ea..be4002e55 100644
--- a/stac_api/api/extensions/tiles.py
+++ b/stac_api/api/extensions/tiles.py
@@ -1,17 +1,14 @@
 """tiles extension"""
 from dataclasses import dataclass
 
-import pkg_resources
 from fastapi import FastAPI
-from starlette.requests import Request
-from starlette.responses import HTMLResponse
-from starlette.templating import Jinja2Templates
-
 from stac_api.api.extensions.extension import ApiExtension
 from stac_api.api.models import ItemUri
 from stac_api.api.routes import create_endpoint_with_depends
 from stac_api.clients.tiles.ogc import TilesClient
 from stac_api.models.ogc import TileSetResource
+from starlette.requests import Request
+from starlette.responses import HTMLResponse
 
 
 @dataclass
@@ -23,9 +20,7 @@ class TilesExtension(ApiExtension):
     def register(self, app: FastAPI) -> None:
         """register extension with the application"""
         from titiler.endpoints.stac import STACTiler
-
-        template_dir = pkg_resources.resource_filename("titiler", "templates")
-        templates = Jinja2Templates(directory=template_dir)
+        from titiler.templates import templates
 
         titiler_router = STACTiler().router