diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2b2ff4c176..ed7658fe87 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+- Use sqlalchemy version in sqlalchemy commenter instead of opentelemetry library version
+  ([#2404](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib/pull/2404))
+
 ### Added
 
 - `opentelemetry-instrumentation-pika` Instrumentation for `channel.consume()` (supported
diff --git a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-sqlalchemy/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/sqlalchemy/engine.py b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-sqlalchemy/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/sqlalchemy/engine.py
index 0632d71faf..a810aedc38 100644
--- a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-sqlalchemy/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/sqlalchemy/engine.py
+++ b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-sqlalchemy/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/sqlalchemy/engine.py
@@ -15,13 +15,13 @@
 import re
 import weakref
 
+import sqlalchemy
 from sqlalchemy.event import (  # pylint: disable=no-name-in-module
     listen,
     remove,
 )
 
 from opentelemetry import trace
-from opentelemetry.instrumentation.sqlalchemy.version import __version__
 from opentelemetry.instrumentation.sqlcommenter_utils import _add_sql_comment
 from opentelemetry.instrumentation.utils import _get_opentelemetry_values
 from opentelemetry.semconv.trace import NetTransportValues, SpanAttributes
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ def _before_cur_exec(
                 commenter_data = {
                     "db_driver": conn.engine.driver,
                     # Driver/framework centric information.
-                    "db_framework": f"sqlalchemy:{__version__}",
+                    "db_framework": f"sqlalchemy:{sqlalchemy.__version__}",
                 }
 
                 if self.commenter_options.get("opentelemetry_values", True):