diff --git a/.coveragerc b/.coveragerc
index 12323f0b012..4d3146384b7 100644
--- a/.coveragerc
+++ b/.coveragerc
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ omit =
     */celery/bin/graph.py
     *celery/bin/logtool.py
     *celery/task/base.py
-    *celery/five.py
     *celery/contrib/sphinx.py
     *celery/concurrency/asynpool.py
     *celery/utils/debug.py
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.rst b/CONTRIBUTING.rst
index a941d2348a9..9814b9c7ee4 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.rst
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.rst
@@ -1067,7 +1067,6 @@ is following the conventions.
         from Queue import Queue, Empty
 
         from .platforms import Pidfile
-        from .five import zip_longest, items, range
         from .utils.time import maybe_timedelta
 
 * Wild-card imports must not be used (`from xxx import *`).
diff --git a/celery/five.py b/celery/five.py
deleted file mode 100644
index f89738aa14b..00000000000
--- a/celery/five.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-"""Python 2/3 compatibility utilities."""
-
-import sys
-
-import vine.five
-
-sys.modules[__name__] = vine.five
diff --git a/celery/utils/log.py b/celery/utils/log.py
index 95941284043..6acff167fcf 100644
--- a/celery/utils/log.py
+++ b/celery/utils/log.py
@@ -11,8 +11,6 @@
 from kombu.log import get_logger as _get_logger
 from kombu.utils.encoding import safe_str
 
-from celery.five import values
-
 from .term import colored
 
 __all__ = (
@@ -45,7 +43,7 @@ def set_in_sighandler(value):
 
 def iter_open_logger_fds():
     seen = set()
-    loggers = (list(values(logging.Logger.manager.loggerDict)) +
+    loggers = (list(logging.Logger.manager.loggerDict.values()) +
                [logging.getLogger(None)])
     for l in loggers:
         try:
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 4b6750ae83a..6c7dbc6aaad 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@
         'cyanide': ('https://cyanide.readthedocs.io/en/latest', None),
     },
     apicheck_ignore_modules=[
-        'celery.five',
         'celery.__main__',
         'celery.task',
         'celery.contrib.testing',
diff --git a/docs/tutorials/task-cookbook.rst b/docs/tutorials/task-cookbook.rst
index 4ed3c267b36..41e2db734bb 100644
--- a/docs/tutorials/task-cookbook.rst
+++ b/docs/tutorials/task-cookbook.rst
@@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ For this reason your tasks run-time shouldn't exceed the timeout.
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
+    import time
     from celery import task
-    from celery.five import monotonic
     from celery.utils.log import get_task_logger
     from contextlib import contextmanager
     from django.core.cache import cache
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ For this reason your tasks run-time shouldn't exceed the timeout.
 
     @contextmanager
     def memcache_lock(lock_id, oid):
-        timeout_at = monotonic() + LOCK_EXPIRE - 3
+        timeout_at = time.monotonic() + LOCK_EXPIRE - 3
         # cache.add fails if the key already exists
         status = cache.add(lock_id, oid, LOCK_EXPIRE)
         try:
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ For this reason your tasks run-time shouldn't exceed the timeout.
         finally:
             # memcache delete is very slow, but we have to use it to take
             # advantage of using add() for atomic locking
-            if monotonic() < timeout_at and status:
+            if time.monotonic() < timeout_at and status:
                 # don't release the lock if we exceeded the timeout
                 # to lessen the chance of releasing an expired lock
                 # owned by someone else
diff --git a/requirements/default.txt b/requirements/default.txt
index de7bc9c14b0..124c56679da 100644
--- a/requirements/default.txt
+++ b/requirements/default.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 pytz>dev
 billiard>=3.6.3.0,<4.0
 kombu>=5.0.0,<6.0
-vine==1.3.0
+vine>=5.0.0,<6.0
 click>=7.0
 click-didyoumean>=0.0.3
 click-repl>=0.1.6
diff --git a/t/benchmarks/bench_worker.py b/t/benchmarks/bench_worker.py
index c538e4e3286..716094a5ed8 100644
--- a/t/benchmarks/bench_worker.py
+++ b/t/benchmarks/bench_worker.py
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 import os
 import sys
 
-from kombu.five import monotonic  # noqa
-
 from celery import Celery  # noqa
 
 os.environ.update(
@@ -41,7 +39,7 @@
 
 
 def tdiff(then):
-    return monotonic() - then
+    return time.monotonic() - then
 
 
 @app.task(cur=0, time_start=None, queue='bench.worker', bare=True)
@@ -51,9 +49,9 @@ def it(_, n):
     i = it.cur
     if i and not i % 5000:
         print('({} so far: {}s)'.format(i, tdiff(it.subt)), file=sys.stderr)
-        it.subt = monotonic()
+        it.subt = time.monotonic()
     if not i:
-        it.subt = it.time_start = monotonic()
+        it.subt = it.time_start = time.monotonic()
     elif i > n - 2:
         total = tdiff(it.time_start)
         print('({} so far: {}s)'.format(i, tdiff(it.subt)), file=sys.stderr)
@@ -66,11 +64,11 @@ def it(_, n):
 
 
 def bench_apply(n=DEFAULT_ITS):
-    time_start = monotonic()
+    time_start = time.monotonic()
     task = it._get_current_object()
     with app.producer_or_acquire() as producer:
         [task.apply_async((i, n), producer=producer) for i in range(n)]
-    print('-- apply {} tasks: {}s'.format(n, monotonic() - time_start))
+    print('-- apply {} tasks: {}s'.format(n, time.monotonic() - time_start))
 
 
 def bench_work(n=DEFAULT_ITS, loglevel='CRITICAL'):