diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index e93a6d9..2250e87 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ competitor-bench = [
     "mem0ai==2.0.2",
     "letta-client==1.10.3",
     "zep-cloud==3.22.0",
-    "cognee==1.0.5",
+    "cognee==1.1.2",
 ]
 # Core benchmark harness deps — `python -m tests.bench.run --check-strict`
 # reads per-bench tolerance YAMLs via PyYAML. The gate module falls back