diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 9b9c5fa68..fd85a8fd9 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ def readme():
               'scikit-learn>=1.0.0, <2.0.0',
               'spacy[lookups]>=2.0.0, <3.8.0',  # later versions depend on `numpy<3.0.0,>=2.0.0`
               'blis<0.8.0',  # Windows memory issues https://github.com/explosion/thinc/issues/771
-              'scikit-image>=0.17.2, <0.23',  # introduced `start_label` argument for `slic`
+              'scikit-image>=0.17.2, <0.26',  # introduced `start_label` argument for `slic`
               'requests>=2.21.0, <3.0.0',
               'Pillow>=5.4.1, <11.0',
               'attrs>=19.2.0, <24.0.0',