diff --git a/tools/pip-requires b/tools/pip-requires
index 1c287266f4b..44b52793e4b 100644
--- a/tools/pip-requires
+++ b/tools/pip-requires
@@ -12,5 +12,5 @@ lxml
 netaddr
 python-quantumclient>=2.0
 pyudev
-sqlalchemy>0.6.4
+sqlalchemy>0.6.4,<=0.7.9
 webob==1.0.8