diff --git a/optimum/exporters/onnx/model_configs.py b/optimum/exporters/onnx/model_configs.py
index d2ee35dbade..5d7c29b4f45 100644
--- a/optimum/exporters/onnx/model_configs.py
+++ b/optimum/exporters/onnx/model_configs.py
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ class SplinterOnnxConfig(BertOnnxConfig):
 
 
 class DistilBertOnnxConfig(BertOnnxConfig):
-    DEFAULT_ONNX_OPSET = 11
+    DEFAULT_ONNX_OPSET = 14  # now uses F.scaled_dot_product_attention by default for transformers>=4.46.0
 
     @property
     def inputs(self) -> Dict[str, Dict[int, str]]: