diff --git a/.github/workflows/autoblack.yml b/.github/workflows/autoblack.yml
index 70882c3cc..555322782 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/autoblack.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/autoblack.yml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ jobs:
         with:
             ref: ${{ github.head_ref }}
       - uses: actions/setup-python@v4
-      - run: pip install black
+      - run: pip install black -c requirements.txt
       - name: Auto-format code if needed
         run: black spacy
       # We can't run black --check here because that returns a non-zero excit
diff --git a/azure-pipelines.yml b/azure-pipelines.yml
index 541656c3d..dba11bd1a 100644
--- a/azure-pipelines.yml
+++ b/azure-pipelines.yml
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ jobs:
         inputs:
           versionSpec: "3.7"
       - script: |
-          pip install black==22.3.0
+          pip install black -c requirements.txt
           python -m black spacy --check
         displayName: "black"
       - script: |
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 1bd4518af..d6b0bc0dd 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -37,4 +37,4 @@ types-mock>=0.1.1
 types-setuptools>=57.0.0
 types-requests
 types-setuptools>=57.0.0
-black>=22.0,<23.0
+black==22.3.0