diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 85490981aa..e153cc6e00 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -54,7 +54,6 @@ install_requires =
     Pygments>=2.5.2
     requests-toolbelt>=0.9.1
     multidict>=4.7.0
-    setuptools
     importlib-metadata>=1.4.0; python_version<"3.8"
     rich>=9.10.0
     colorama>=0.2.4; sys_platform=="win32"
@@ -80,6 +79,7 @@ console_scripts =
 
 [options.extras_require]
 dev =
+    setuptools
     pytest
     pytest-httpbin>=0.0.6
     responses