diff --git a/packaging/datadog-agent/source/setup_agent.sh b/packaging/datadog-agent/source/setup_agent.sh
index 23fad50e2e..30e96064d8 100755
--- a/packaging/datadog-agent/source/setup_agent.sh
+++ b/packaging/datadog-agent/source/setup_agent.sh
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ set -u
 DEFAULT_AGENT_VERSION="5.32.2"
 # Pin pip version, in the past there was some buggy releases and get-pip.py
 # always pulls the latest version
-PIP_VERSION="19.0.3"
+PIP_VERSION="18.1"
 VIRTUALENV_VERSION="1.11.6"
 SUPERVISOR_VERSION="3.3.0"
 SETUPTOOLS_VERSION="20.9.0"