diff --git a/sdks/python/setup.py b/sdks/python/setup.py
index 309de2733031..51269ffe4a59 100644
--- a/sdks/python/setup.py
+++ b/sdks/python/setup.py
@@ -313,7 +313,9 @@ def get_portability_package_data():
             'google-cloud-bigquery>=2.0.0,<4',
             'google-cloud-bigquery-storage>=2.6.3,<3',
             'google-cloud-core>=2.0.0,<3',
-            'google-cloud-bigtable>=2.0.0,<3,!=2.18.0',
+            # TODO(https://github.com/apache/beam/issues/26673)
+            # 2.18.x breaks unit test
+            'google-cloud-bigtable>=2.0.0,<2.18.0',
             'google-cloud-spanner>=3.0.0,<4',
             # GCP Packages required by ML functionality
             'google-cloud-dlp>=3.0.0,<4',