diff --git a/model-optimizer/requirements.txt b/model-optimizer/requirements.txt
index 137b4113b3c..bda2a6dc360 100644
--- a/model-optimizer/requirements.txt
+++ b/model-optimizer/requirements.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ tensorflow>=1.15.2,<2.0; python_version < "3.8"
 tensorflow>=2.0; python_version >= "3.8"
 mxnet>=1.0.0,<=1.5.1
 networkx>=1.11
-numpy>=1.13.0
+numpy>=1.13.0,<1.19.0
 protobuf>=3.6.1
 onnx>=1.1.2
 test-generator==0.1.1
diff --git a/model-optimizer/requirements_tf.txt b/model-optimizer/requirements_tf.txt
index a22cd69ac7b..a834c79cc8c 100644
--- a/model-optimizer/requirements_tf.txt
+++ b/model-optimizer/requirements_tf.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 tensorflow>=1.15.2,<2.0; python_version < "3.8"
 tensorflow>=2.0; python_version >= "3.8"
 networkx>=1.11
-numpy>=1.13.0
+numpy>=1.13.0,<1.19.0
 test-generator==0.1.1
 defusedxml>=0.5.0