diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f583aba78e7..d2e3ff6e2f7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
   ([#2870](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/2870))
 - Fix: Remove `LogEmitter.flush()` to align with OTel Log spec
   ([#2863](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/2863))
+- Bump minimum required API/SDK version for exporters that support metrics
+  ([#2918](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/2918))
 - Fix metric reader examples + added `preferred_temporality` and `preferred_aggregation`
   for `ConsoleMetricExporter`
   ([#2911](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/2911))
diff --git a/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc/pyproject.toml b/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc/pyproject.toml
index 2e05816e8d6..f8172f6f9b3 100644
--- a/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc/pyproject.toml
+++ b/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc/pyproject.toml
@@ -28,9 +28,9 @@ dependencies = [
   "backoff >= 1.10.0, < 3.0.0; python_version>='3.7'",
   "googleapis-common-protos ~= 1.52",
   "grpcio >= 1.0.0, < 2.0.0",
-  "opentelemetry-api ~= 1.3",
+  "opentelemetry-api ~= 1.12",
   "opentelemetry-proto == 1.12.0",
-  "opentelemetry-sdk ~= 1.11",
+  "opentelemetry-sdk ~= 1.12",
 ]
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]
diff --git a/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http/pyproject.toml b/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http/pyproject.toml
index edf4db8a93b..e24085625ba 100644
--- a/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http/pyproject.toml
+++ b/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http/pyproject.toml
@@ -27,9 +27,9 @@ dependencies = [
   "backoff >= 1.10.0, < 2.0.0; python_version<'3.7'",
   "backoff >= 1.10.0, < 3.0.0; python_version>='3.7'",
   "googleapis-common-protos ~= 1.52",
-  "opentelemetry-api ~= 1.3",
+  "opentelemetry-api ~= 1.12",
   "opentelemetry-proto == 1.12.0",
-  "opentelemetry-sdk ~= 1.11",
+  "opentelemetry-sdk ~= 1.12",
   "requests ~= 2.7",
 ]
 
diff --git a/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-prometheus/pyproject.toml b/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-prometheus/pyproject.toml
index d7f9cef33d0..9dd2d635173 100644
--- a/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-prometheus/pyproject.toml
+++ b/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-prometheus/pyproject.toml
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ classifiers = [
   "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
 ]
 dependencies = [
-  "opentelemetry-api >= 1.10.0",
-  "opentelemetry-sdk >= 1.10.0",
+  "opentelemetry-api ~= 1.12",
+  "opentelemetry-sdk ~= 1.12",
   "prometheus_client >= 0.5.0, < 1.0.0",
 ]