diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/quantile-python/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/quantile-python/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..98206ff8aaba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/quantile-python/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{ lib
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchPypi
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "quantile-python";
+  version = "1.1";
+  format = "setuptools";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    hash = "sha256-VYYp6IxJfvO5sQgTScGuamG1NZDjF3JCmP9UxnTbeWk=";
+  };
+
+  # package has no tests
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  pythonImportsCheck = [ "quantile" ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Python Implementation of Graham Cormode and S. Muthukrishnan's Effective Computation of Biased Quantiles over Data Streams in ICDE'05";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/matttproud/python_quantile_estimation";
+    license = licenses.asl20;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ mbalatsko ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index cf7d72b5347d..1ee132f7eaf5 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -11100,6 +11100,8 @@ self: super: with self; {
 
   quantiphy = callPackage ../development/python-modules/quantiphy { };
 
+  quantile-python = callPackage ../development/python-modules/quantile-python { };
+
   quantiphy-eval = callPackage ../development/python-modules/quantiphy-eval { };
 
   quantum-gateway = callPackage ../development/python-modules/quantum-gateway { };