diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/machine-learning/vowpal-wabbit/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/machine-learning/vowpal-wabbit/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..771d6227a86c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/science/machine-learning/vowpal-wabbit/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+{ lib, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, cmake, boost169, rapidjson, zlib }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  pname = "vowpal-wabbit";
+  version = "8.9.2";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "VowpalWabbit";
+    repo = "vowpal_wabbit";
+    rev = version;
+    sha256 = "0ng1kip7sh3br85691xvszxd6lhv8nhfkgqkpwxd89wy85znzhmd";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake ];
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    boost169
+    rapidjson
+    zlib
+  ];
+
+  # -DBUILD_TESTS=OFF is set as both it saves time in the build and the default
+  # cmake flags appended by the builder include -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF for which
+  # this is the equivalent flag.
+  cmakeFlags = [
+    "-DVW_INSTALL=ON"
+    "-DBUILD_TESTS=OFF"
+    "-DBUILD_JAVA=OFF"
+    "-DBUILD_PYTHON=OFF"
+    "-DUSE_LATEST_STD=ON"
+    "-DRAPIDJSON_SYS_DEP=ON"
+  ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    broken = stdenv.isAarch32 || stdenv.isAarch64;
+    description = "Machine learning system focused on online reinforcement learning";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/VowpalWabbit/vowpal_wabbit/";
+    license = licenses.bsd3;
+    longDescription = ''
+      Machine learning system which pushes the frontier of machine learning with techniques such as online,
+      hashing, allreduce, reductions, learning2search, active, and interactive and reinforcement learning
+    '';
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ jackgerrits ];
+    platforms = platforms.unix;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 218b2dc89ce1..14ef0ad7986a 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -3987,6 +3987,8 @@ in
 
   vorta = libsForQt5.callPackage ../applications/backup/vorta { };
 
+  vowpal-wabbit = callPackage ../applications/science/machine-learning/vowpal-wabbit { };
+
   utahfs = callPackage ../applications/networking/utahfs { };
 
   wakeonlan = callPackage ../tools/networking/wakeonlan { };