diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 8afcc496d..337064eee 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2388,7 +2388,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "phf_codegen 0.13.1",
  "postcard",
  "pretty_assertions",
- "rayon",
+ "rayon-core",
  "regex",
  "reqwest 0.13.1",
  "sentry",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index d350e8041..d9c76fc8a 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ opentelemetry_sdk = { version = "0.31.0", features = ["rt-tokio"] }
 postcard = { version = "1.1.3", default-features = false, features = ["use-std"] }
 pretty_assertions = "1.4.0"
 rand = "0.9"
-rayon = "1.6.1"
 regex = "1"
 reqwest = { version = "0.13", features = ["json", "gzip"] }
 sentry = { version = "0.46.0", features = ["panic", "tracing", "tower-http", "anyhow", "backtrace"] }
diff --git a/crates/bin/docs_rs_watcher/Cargo.toml b/crates/bin/docs_rs_watcher/Cargo.toml
index 81b2deebb..155827052 100644
--- a/crates/bin/docs_rs_watcher/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/bin/docs_rs_watcher/Cargo.toml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ docs_rs_utils = { path = "../../lib/docs_rs_utils" }
 futures-util = { workspace = true }
 itertools = { workspace = true }
 opentelemetry = { workspace = true }
-rayon = { workspace = true }
+rayon = "1.6.1"
 sqlx = { workspace = true }
 tokio = { workspace = true }
 tracing = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/crates/bin/docs_rs_web/Cargo.toml b/crates/bin/docs_rs_web/Cargo.toml
index e981c504d..252ea76b2 100644
--- a/crates/bin/docs_rs_web/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/bin/docs_rs_web/Cargo.toml
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ num_cpus = "1.15.0"
 opentelemetry = { workspace = true }
 phf = "0.13.1"
 postcard = { workspace = true }
-rayon = { workspace = true }
+rayon-core = "1.13.0"
 regex = { workspace = true }
 reqwest = { workspace = true }
 sentry = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/crates/bin/docs_rs_web/src/page/templates.rs b/crates/bin/docs_rs_web/src/page/templates.rs
index 760861da9..daa539e58 100644
--- a/crates/bin/docs_rs_web/src/page/templates.rs
+++ b/crates/bin/docs_rs_web/src/page/templates.rs
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ pub(crate) struct TemplateData {
     /// This is better than using `tokio::spawn_blocking` because
     /// tokio will wait until all tasks are finished when shutting
     /// down.
-    rendering_threadpool: rayon::ThreadPool,
+    rendering_threadpool: rayon_core::ThreadPool,
 }
 
 impl TemplateData {
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ impl TemplateData {
         trace!("Loading templates");
 
         let data = Self {
-            rendering_threadpool: rayon::ThreadPoolBuilder::new()
+            rendering_threadpool: rayon_core::ThreadPoolBuilder::new()
                 .num_threads(num_threads)
                 .thread_name(move |idx| format!("docsrs-render {idx}"))
                 .build()?,