diff --git a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-aiokafka/pyproject.toml b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-aiokafka/pyproject.toml
index f3f815a583..b2c72bc397 100644
--- a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-aiokafka/pyproject.toml
+++ b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-aiokafka/pyproject.toml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ classifiers = [
   "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12",
 ]
 dependencies = [
-  "opentelemetry-api ~= 1.5",
+  "opentelemetry-api ~= 1.27",
   "opentelemetry-instrumentation == 0.49b0.dev",
   "opentelemetry-semantic-conventions == 0.49b0.dev",
 ]