diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/sentence-transformers/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/sentence-transformers/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4554b36d1207
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/sentence-transformers/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+{ lib
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchFromGitHub
+, huggingface-hub
+, nltk
+, numpy
+, scikit-learn
+, scipy
+, sentencepiece
+, tokenizers
+, torch
+, torchvision
+, tqdm
+, transformers
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "sentence-transformers";
+  version = "2.2.2";
+  format = "setuptools";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "UKPLab";
+    repo = "sentence-transformers";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    hash = "sha256-hEYpDAL0lliaS1j+c5vaZ0q1hw802jfTUurx/FvgY9w=";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    huggingface-hub
+    nltk
+    numpy
+    scikit-learn
+    scipy
+    sentencepiece
+    tokenizers
+    torch
+    torchvision
+    tqdm
+    transformers
+  ];
+
+  pythonImportsCheck = [ "sentence_transformers" ];
+
+  doCheck = false; # tests fail at build_ext
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Multilingual Sentence & Image Embeddings with BERT";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/UKPLab/sentence-transformers";
+    license = licenses.asl20;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ dit7ya ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index c672707b90ef..988f7e71981c 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -10413,6 +10413,8 @@ self: super: with self; {
     inherit (pkgs) sentencepiece;
   };
 
+  sentence-transformers = callPackage ../development/python-modules/sentence-transformers { };
+
   sentinel = callPackage ../development/python-modules/sentinel { };
 
   sentinels = callPackage ../development/python-modules/sentinels { };