diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 8dbc147068e..d612a94f56c 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -47,7 +47,8 @@
     "requests>=2.0.0",
     "scikit-image>=0.15.0",
     "scikit-learn>=0.24.2",
-    "scipy>=1.0.0",
+    "scipy<1.9.2,>=1.8; python_version <= '3.9'",
+    "scipy>=1.0.0; python_version > '3.9'",
     "tqdm>=4.0.0",
     "toposort>=1.0",
     "GPUtil>=1.4.0",