diff --git a/stubs/seaborn/METADATA.toml b/stubs/seaborn/METADATA.toml
index 2f4acb059a8e..617bc4ef5ec8 100644
--- a/stubs/seaborn/METADATA.toml
+++ b/stubs/seaborn/METADATA.toml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 version = "0.13.2"
 # Requires a version of numpy and matplotlib with a `py.typed` file
-requires = ["matplotlib>=3.8", "numpy>=1.20", "pandas-stubs<2.3.3.251201"]
+requires = ["matplotlib>=3.8", "numpy>=1.20", "pandas-stubs"]
 upstream_repository = "https://github.com/mwaskom/seaborn"
diff --git a/stubs/seaborn/seaborn/_core/data.pyi b/stubs/seaborn/seaborn/_core/data.pyi
index e607d5846f10..35769b27bfe7 100644
--- a/stubs/seaborn/seaborn/_core/data.pyi
+++ b/stubs/seaborn/seaborn/_core/data.pyi
@@ -3,8 +3,7 @@ from collections.abc import Mapping
 from typing import TypeVar, overload
 
 from pandas import DataFrame
-from pandas.core.interchange.dataframe_protocol import DataFrame as DataFrameProtocol
-from seaborn._core.typing import DataSource, VariableSpec
+from seaborn._core.typing import DataSource, SupportsDataFrame, VariableSpec
 
 _T = TypeVar("_T", Mapping[Incomplete, Incomplete], None)
 
@@ -22,5 +21,5 @@ class PlotData:
 @overload
 def handle_data_source(data: _T) -> _T: ...
 @overload
-def handle_data_source(data: DataFrameProtocol) -> DataFrame: ...
+def handle_data_source(data: SupportsDataFrame) -> DataFrame: ...
 def convert_dataframe_to_pandas(data: object) -> DataFrame: ...
diff --git a/stubs/seaborn/seaborn/_core/typing.pyi b/stubs/seaborn/seaborn/_core/typing.pyi
index 0cfdd59d2fa5..415f818440ee 100644
--- a/stubs/seaborn/seaborn/_core/typing.pyi
+++ b/stubs/seaborn/seaborn/_core/typing.pyi
@@ -10,8 +10,6 @@ from pandas import DataFrame, Index, Series, Timedelta, Timestamp
 
 @type_check_only
 class SupportsDataFrame(Protocol):
-    # `__dataframe__` should return pandas.core.interchange.dataframe_protocol.DataFrame
-    # but this class needs to be defined as a Protocol, not as an ABC.
     def __dataframe__(self, nan_as_null: bool = ..., allow_copy: bool = ...): ...
 
 ColumnName: TypeAlias = str | bytes | date | datetime | timedelta | bool | complex | Timestamp | Timedelta