diff --git a/crates/bevy_core/src/task_pool_options.rs b/crates/bevy_core/src/task_pool_options.rs
index af910b1138bce..43779a072c0a8 100644
--- a/crates/bevy_core/src/task_pool_options.rs
+++ b/crates/bevy_core/src/task_pool_options.rs
@@ -94,8 +94,8 @@ impl DefaultTaskPoolOptions {
 
     /// Inserts the default thread pools into the given resource map based on the configured values
     pub fn create_default_pools(&self) {
-        let total_threads =
-            bevy_tasks::logical_core_count().clamp(self.min_total_threads, self.max_total_threads);
+        let total_threads = bevy_tasks::available_parallelism()
+            .clamp(self.min_total_threads, self.max_total_threads);
         trace!("Assigning {} cores to default task pools", total_threads);
 
         let mut remaining_threads = total_threads;
diff --git a/crates/bevy_tasks/Cargo.toml b/crates/bevy_tasks/Cargo.toml
index 41866500492a5..91f1e8e5e334c 100644
--- a/crates/bevy_tasks/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/bevy_tasks/Cargo.toml
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ keywords = ["bevy"]
 futures-lite = "1.4.0"
 async-executor = "1.3.0"
 async-channel = "1.4.2"
-num_cpus = "1"
 once_cell = "1.7"
 
 [target.'cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")'.dependencies]
diff --git a/crates/bevy_tasks/src/lib.rs b/crates/bevy_tasks/src/lib.rs
index 7345d775ee968..62c42a7717868 100644
--- a/crates/bevy_tasks/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/bevy_tasks/src/lib.rs
@@ -33,5 +33,16 @@ pub mod prelude {
     };
 }
 
-pub use num_cpus::get as logical_core_count;
-pub use num_cpus::get_physical as physical_core_count;
+use std::num::NonZeroUsize;
+
+/// Gets the logical CPU core count available to the current process.
+///
+/// This is identical to [`std::thread::available_parallelism`], except
+/// it will return a default value of 1 if it internally errors out.
+///
+/// This will always return at least 1.
+pub fn available_parallelism() -> usize {
+    std::thread::available_parallelism()
+        .map(NonZeroUsize::get)
+        .unwrap_or(1)
+}
diff --git a/crates/bevy_tasks/src/task_pool.rs b/crates/bevy_tasks/src/task_pool.rs
index b52ce0b9f1445..c9c97322f56f7 100644
--- a/crates/bevy_tasks/src/task_pool.rs
+++ b/crates/bevy_tasks/src/task_pool.rs
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ impl TaskPool {
 
         let executor = Arc::new(async_executor::Executor::new());
 
-        let num_threads = num_threads.unwrap_or_else(num_cpus::get);
+        let num_threads = num_threads.unwrap_or_else(crate::available_parallelism);
 
         let threads = (0..num_threads)
             .map(|i| {