diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8d9953849..85fe04187 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+- Updated pip from 25.3 to 26.0.1. ([#2032](https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-python/pull/2032))
 
 ## [v336] - 2026-03-02
 
diff --git a/requirements/pip.txt b/requirements/pip.txt
index 0b3d671e6..c1dd99e28 100644
--- a/requirements/pip.txt
+++ b/requirements/pip.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-pip==25.3
+pip==26.0.1
diff --git a/spec/hatchet/pip_spec.rb b/spec/hatchet/pip_spec.rb
index 5252aa9ee..0f37dba4c 100644
--- a/spec/hatchet/pip_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/hatchet/pip_spec.rb
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@
       app.deploy do |app|
         expect(clean_output(app.output)).to include(<<~OUTPUT)
           remote: -----> Installing dependencies using 'pip install -r requirements.txt'
-          remote:        ERROR: Invalid requirement: 'an-invalid-requirement!': Expected end or semicolon (after name and no valid version specifier)
+          remote:        ERROR: Invalid requirement: 'an-invalid-requirement!': Expected semicolon (after name with no version specifier) or end
           remote:            an-invalid-requirement!
           remote:                                  ^ (from line 1 of requirements.txt)
           remote: