diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/flash-attn/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/flash-attn/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..bfedc4364f03
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/flash-attn/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+{
+  lib,
+  buildPythonPackage,
+  fetchFromGitHub,
+  einops,
+  ninja,
+  setuptools,
+  symlinkJoin,
+  torch,
+}:
+
+let
+  inherit (torch) cudaCapabilities cudaPackages cudaSupport;
+  inherit (cudaPackages) backendStdenv;
+in
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "flash-attention";
+  version = "2.8.2";
+  pyproject = true;
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "Dao-AILab";
+    repo = "flash-attention";
+    tag = "v${version}";
+    hash = "sha256-iHxfDh+rGanhymP5F7g8rQcQUlP0oXliVF+y+ur/iJ0=";
+    fetchSubmodules = true;
+  };
+
+  preConfigure = ''
+    export MAX_JOBS="$NIX_BUILD_CORES"
+    export NVCC_THREADS="$NIX_BUILD_CORES"
+  '';
+
+  env = lib.optionalAttrs cudaSupport {
+    FLASH_ATTENTION_SKIP_CUDA_BUILD = "FALSE";
+    CC = "${backendStdenv.cc}/bin/cc";
+    CXX = "${backendStdenv.cc}/bin/c++";
+    TORCH_CUDA_ARCH_LIST = "${lib.concatStringsSep ";" cudaCapabilities}";
+  };
+
+  build-system = [
+    ninja
+    setuptools
+    cudaPackages.cuda_nvcc
+  ];
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    cudaPackages.cuda_cccl # <thrust/*>
+    cudaPackages.libcublas # cublas_v2.h
+    cudaPackages.libcurand # curand.h
+    cudaPackages.libcusolver # cusolverDn.h
+    cudaPackages.libcusparse # cusparse.h
+    cudaPackages.cuda_cudart # cuda_runtime.h cuda_runtime_api.h
+  ];
+
+  dependencies = [
+    einops
+    torch
+  ];
+
+  # Requires NVIDIA driver.
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  pythonImportsCheck = [ "flash_attn" ];
+
+  meta = {
+    # Upstream requires either CUDA or ROCm. Couldn't get it to work with ROCm for now.
+    broken = !cudaSupport;
+    description = "Official implementation of FlashAttention and FlashAttention-2";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/Dao-AILab/flash-attention/";
+    changelog = "https://github.com/Dao-AILab/flash-attention/releases/tag/${src.tag}";
+    license = lib.licenses.bsd3;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ jherland ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index f22805eed7cc..1ee69e40b6ff 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -5321,6 +5321,8 @@ self: super: with self; {
 
   flasgger = callPackage ../development/python-modules/flasgger { };
 
+  flash-attn = callPackage ../development/python-modules/flash-attn { };
+
   flashinfer = callPackage ../development/python-modules/flashinfer { };
 
   flashtext = callPackage ../development/python-modules/flashtext { };