docker-compose up leads to “client and server don’t have same version (client : 1.14, server: 1.12)” error but client and server have the same version

Checkout the environment variable COMPOSE_API_VERSION.

I was getting ERROR: client and server don't have same version (client : 1.19, server: 1.18), then I did export COMPOSE_API_VERSION=1.18 and problem sovled!