diff --git a/packages/hardhat-zksync-solc/src/compile/index.ts b/packages/hardhat-zksync-solc/src/compile/index.ts
index 5cf1dec93..6cc0c68dd 100644
--- a/packages/hardhat-zksync-solc/src/compile/index.ts
+++ b/packages/hardhat-zksync-solc/src/compile/index.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { ZkSolcConfig } from '../types';
 import { compileWithBinary } from './binary';
 import { HardhatDocker, Image } from '@nomiclabs/hardhat-docker';
+import semver from 'semver';
 import {
     validateDockerIsInstalled,
     createDocker,
@@ -12,6 +13,7 @@ import {
 import { CompilerInput } from 'hardhat/types';
 import { ZkSyncSolcPluginError } from '../errors';
 import { findMissingLibraries, mapMissingLibraryDependencies, writeLibrariesToFile } from '../utils';
+import { DETECT_MISSING_LIBRARY_MODE_COMPILER_VERSION } from '../constants';
 
 export async function compile(zksolcConfig: ZkSolcConfig, input: CompilerInput, solcPath?: string) {
     let compiler: ICompiler;
@@ -38,21 +40,23 @@ export class BinaryCompiler implements ICompiler {
 
     public async compile(input: CompilerInput, config: ZkSolcConfig) {
         // Check for missing libraries
-        const zkSolcOutput = await compileWithBinary(input, config, this.solcPath, true);
+        if (semver.gte(config.version, DETECT_MISSING_LIBRARY_MODE_COMPILER_VERSION)) {
+            const zkSolcOutput = await compileWithBinary(input, config, this.solcPath, true);
 
-        const missingLibraries = findMissingLibraries(zkSolcOutput);
-        if (missingLibraries.size > 0) {
-            if (!config.settings.missingLibrariesPath) {
-                throw new ZkSyncSolcPluginError('Missing libraries path is not specified');
-            }
-            
-            const missingLibraryDependencies = mapMissingLibraryDependencies(zkSolcOutput, missingLibraries);
-            // Write missing libraries to file
-            const missingLibrariesPath = config.settings.missingLibrariesPath!;
-            await writeLibrariesToFile(missingLibrariesPath, missingLibraryDependencies);
+            const missingLibraries = findMissingLibraries(zkSolcOutput);
+            if (missingLibraries.size > 0) {
+                if (!config.settings.missingLibrariesPath) {
+                    throw new ZkSyncSolcPluginError('Missing libraries path is not specified');
+                }
+                
+                const missingLibraryDependencies = mapMissingLibraryDependencies(zkSolcOutput, missingLibraries);
+                // Write missing libraries to file
+                const missingLibrariesPath = config.settings.missingLibrariesPath!;
+                await writeLibrariesToFile(missingLibrariesPath, missingLibraryDependencies);
 
-            config.settings.areLibrariesMissing = true;
-            return zkSolcOutput;
+                config.settings.areLibrariesMissing = true;
+                return zkSolcOutput;
+            }
         }
 
         return await compileWithBinary(input, config, this.solcPath);
diff --git a/packages/hardhat-zksync-solc/src/constants.ts b/packages/hardhat-zksync-solc/src/constants.ts
index a6940e281..af3590aff 100644
--- a/packages/hardhat-zksync-solc/src/constants.ts
+++ b/packages/hardhat-zksync-solc/src/constants.ts
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ export const PLUGIN_NAME = '@matterlabs/hardhat-zksync-solc';
 export const ZK_ARTIFACT_FORMAT_VERSION = 'hh-zksolc-artifact-1';
 export const ZKSOLC_BIN_REPOSITORY = 'https://github.com/matter-labs/zksolc-bin';
 export const ZKSOLC_BIN_VERSION_INFO = `https://raw.githubusercontent.com/matter-labs/zksolc-bin/main`;
+export const DETECT_MISSING_LIBRARY_MODE_COMPILER_VERSION = '1.3.14';
 
 export const defaultZkSolcConfig: ZkSolcConfig = {
     version: 'latest',