diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 1850f12f1a..ddd0de3359 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -121,7 +121,6 @@ extra = [
     "hub-sdk>=0.0.12", # Ultralytics HUB
     "ipython", # interactive notebook
     "albumentations>=1.4.6", # training augmentations
-    "pycocotools>=2.0.7", # COCO mAP
     "faster-coco-eval>=1.6.3" # Faster COCO mAP
 ]