diff --git a/samples/beam/requirements.txt b/samples/beam/requirements.txt
index e18622e19..0e3050c10 100644
--- a/samples/beam/requirements.txt
+++ b/samples/beam/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
-apache-beam==2.52.0
+apache-beam===2.46.0; python_version == '3.7'
+apache-beam==2.52.0; python_version >= '3.8'
 google-cloud-bigtable==2.21.0
 google-cloud-core==2.4.1