diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1248b83d4..5c881483b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [UNRELEASED]
 
+### Operations
+
+- Change the strict version pin on `pennylane` from `==0.33.1` to `>=0.31.1,<0.33.0`
+
 ## [0.230.0-rc.0] - 2023-11-24
 
 ### Authors
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 453d71ebb..da80817b0 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ mpire>=2.7.1
 natsort>=8.4.0
 networkx>=2.8.6
 orjson>=3.8.10
-pennylane==0.31.1
+pennylane>=0.31.1,<0.33.0
 psutil>=5.9.0
 pydantic>=2.1.1
 python-multipart>=0.0.6
diff --git a/tests/requirements.txt b/tests/requirements.txt
index 411f0903b..4db410654 100644
--- a/tests/requirements.txt
+++ b/tests/requirements.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ isort>=5.10.1
 locust>=2.11.0
 mock>=4.0.3
 nbconvert>=6.5.1
-pennylane==0.31.1
 pre-commit>=2.20.0
 pytest>=7.1.3
 pytest-asyncio>=0.21.0