diff --git a/bench/Cargo.toml b/bench/Cargo.toml
index 63177247..ec0d1342 100644
--- a/bench/Cargo.toml
+++ b/bench/Cargo.toml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ compact_str_6 = { package = "compact_str", version = "0.6" }
 criterion = { version = "0.5", default-features = false }
 iai = "0.1.1"
 smartstring = "1.0.1"
-smol_str = "0.2"
+smol_str = "0.3"
 
 [[bench]]
 name = "apis"