diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 77a2c4c7a9..993d9f8634 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -6296,7 +6296,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "tonic",
  "tracing",
  "twirp-rs",
- "vergen",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/crates/sdk/Cargo.toml b/crates/sdk/Cargo.toml
index e2c50917d9..694e5ec334 100644
--- a/crates/sdk/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/sdk/Cargo.toml
@@ -81,12 +81,5 @@ cuda = []
 
 profiling = ["sp1-core-executor/profiling"]
 
-[build-dependencies]
-vergen = { version = "8", default-features = false, features = [
-  "build",
-  "git",
-  "git2",
-] }
-
 [lints]
 workspace = true
diff --git a/crates/sdk/build.rs b/crates/sdk/build.rs
index ea7fd4bba2..4a368c9e4a 100644
--- a/crates/sdk/build.rs
+++ b/crates/sdk/build.rs
@@ -3,6 +3,4 @@ fn main() {
     if std::env::var("SP1_CI_IN_PROGRESS").is_ok() {
         println!("cargo::rustc-cfg=sp1_ci_in_progress");
     }
-
-    vergen::EmitBuilder::builder().build_timestamp().git_sha(true).emit().unwrap();
 }
diff --git a/patch-testing/Cargo.lock b/patch-testing/Cargo.lock
index d0fbf5faa2..59a34c8638 100644
--- a/patch-testing/Cargo.lock
+++ b/patch-testing/Cargo.lock
@@ -590,8 +590,6 @@ version = "1.2.7"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "a012a0df96dd6d06ba9a1b29d6402d1a5d77c6befd2566afdc26e10603dc93d7"
 dependencies = [
- "jobserver",
- "libc",
  "shlex",
 ]
 
@@ -1470,19 +1468,6 @@ version = "0.31.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "07e28edb80900c19c28f1072f2e8aeca7fa06b23cd4169cefe1af5aa3260783f"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "git2"
-version = "0.19.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "b903b73e45dc0c6c596f2d37eccece7c1c8bb6e4407b001096387c63d0d93724"
-dependencies = [
- "bitflags",
- "libc",
- "libgit2-sys",
- "log",
- "url",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "glob"
 version = "0.3.2"
@@ -1946,15 +1931,6 @@ version = "1.0.14"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "d75a2a4b1b190afb6f5425f10f6a8f959d2ea0b9c2b1d79553551850539e4674"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "jobserver"
-version = "0.1.32"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "48d1dbcbbeb6a7fec7e059840aa538bd62aaccf972c7346c4d9d2059312853d0"
-dependencies = [
- "libc",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "js-sys"
 version = "0.3.76"
@@ -2046,18 +2022,6 @@ version = "0.2.169"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "b5aba8db14291edd000dfcc4d620c7ebfb122c613afb886ca8803fa4e128a20a"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "libgit2-sys"
-version = "0.17.0+1.8.1"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "10472326a8a6477c3c20a64547b0059e4b0d086869eee31e6d7da728a8eb7224"
-dependencies = [
- "cc",
- "libc",
- "libz-sys",
- "pkg-config",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "libloading"
 version = "0.8.6"
@@ -2084,18 +2048,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "libc",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "libz-sys"
-version = "1.1.20"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "d2d16453e800a8cf6dd2fc3eb4bc99b786a9b90c663b8559a5b1a041bf89e472"
-dependencies = [
- "cc",
- "libc",
- "pkg-config",
- "vcpkg",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "linux-raw-sys"
 version = "0.4.14"
@@ -2394,15 +2346,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "syn 1.0.109",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "num_threads"
-version = "0.1.7"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "5c7398b9c8b70908f6371f47ed36737907c87c52af34c268fed0bf0ceb92ead9"
-dependencies = [
- "libc",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "number_prefix"
 version = "0.4.0"
@@ -2873,12 +2816,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "spki",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "pkg-config"
-version = "0.3.31"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "953ec861398dccce10c670dfeaf3ec4911ca479e9c02154b3a215178c5f566f2"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "portable-atomic"
 version = "1.10.0"
@@ -4135,7 +4072,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "tempfile",
  "thiserror 1.0.69",
  "tracing",
- "vergen",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -4450,9 +4386,7 @@ checksum = "35e7868883861bd0e56d9ac6efcaaca0d6d5d82a2a7ec8209ff492c07cf37b21"
 dependencies = [
  "deranged",
  "itoa",
- "libc",
  "num-conv",
- "num_threads",
  "powerfmt",
  "serde",
  "time-core",
@@ -4804,12 +4738,6 @@ version = "0.1.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "830b7e5d4d90034032940e4ace0d9a9a057e7a45cd94e6c007832e39edb82f6d"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "vcpkg"
-version = "0.2.15"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "accd4ea62f7bb7a82fe23066fb0957d48ef677f6eeb8215f372f52e48bb32426"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "vec_map"
 version = "0.8.2"
@@ -4819,19 +4747,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "vergen"
-version = "8.3.2"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "2990d9ea5967266ea0ccf413a4aa5c42a93dbcfda9cb49a97de6931726b12566"
-dependencies = [
- "anyhow",
- "cfg-if",
- "git2",
- "rustversion",
- "time",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "version_check"
 version = "0.9.5"