diff --git a/components/api/backend_python/requirements.txt b/components/api/backend_python/requirements.txt
index 0f621fc..107249e 100644
--- a/components/api/backend_python/requirements.txt
+++ b/components/api/backend_python/requirements.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 requests==2.26.0
 Flask==2.0.1
-gunicorn==20.1.0
+gunicorn==22.0.0
 audioread==2.1.9
 google-cloud-storage==1.42.2
 google-cloud-speech==2.9.0