diff --git a/export.py b/export.py
index 3ecb353b7..b9dc1681a 100644
--- a/export.py
+++ b/export.py
@@ -510,7 +510,7 @@ def export_paddle(model, im, file, metadata, prefix=colorstr("PaddlePaddle:")):
         $ pip install paddlepaddle x2paddle
         ```
     """
-    check_requirements(("paddlepaddle", "x2paddle"))
+    check_requirements(("paddlepaddle<3.0.0", "x2paddle"))
     import x2paddle
     from x2paddle.convert import pytorch2paddle
 
diff --git a/models/common.py b/models/common.py
index ea893db4b..aa7898275 100644
--- a/models/common.py
+++ b/models/common.py
@@ -646,7 +646,7 @@ class DetectMultiBackend(nn.Module):
             raise NotImplementedError("ERROR: YOLOv5 TF.js inference is not supported")
         elif paddle:  # PaddlePaddle
             LOGGER.info(f"Loading {w} for PaddlePaddle inference...")
-            check_requirements("paddlepaddle-gpu" if cuda else "paddlepaddle")
+            check_requirements("paddlepaddle-gpu" if cuda else "paddlepaddle<3.0.0")
             import paddle.inference as pdi
 
             if not Path(w).is_file():  # if not *.pdmodel