diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index f19a53e9b..012cc7895 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -27,8 +27,7 @@ dependencies=[
     'stim',
     'plotly>=3.8.0',
     'pandas',
-    'networkx',
-    'tqdm>=4.42.0'
+    'networkx'
 ]
 requires-python='>=3.9'
 keywords=[
@@ -60,6 +59,7 @@ html_reports = ['jinja2', 'MarkupSafe']
 ibmq = [
     'qiskit>1',
     'qiskit-ibm-runtime>=0.17.1',
+    'tqdm>=4.42.0',
     'dill'
 ]
 interpygate = ['csaps']
@@ -104,4 +104,4 @@ Download ='https://github.com/sandialabs/pyGSTi/tarball/master'
 [tool.setuptools_scm]
 version_file = "pygsti/_version.py"
 version_scheme = "only-version"
-local_scheme = "no-local-version"
+local_scheme = "no-local-version"
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index bbb1541a2..5b3b1fe78 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -5,4 +5,3 @@ plotly
 pandas
 networkx
 stim
-tqdm