diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/aiolimiter/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/aiolimiter/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9f8f81e2fca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/aiolimiter/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+{ lib
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchFromGitHub
+, fetchpatch
+, poetry-core
+, importlib-metadata
+, pytest-asyncio
+, pytestCheckHook
+, pythonOlder
+, toml
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "aiolimiter";
+  version = "1.0.0";
+  format = "pyproject";
+
+  disabled = pythonOlder "3.7";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "mjpieters";
+    repo = pname;
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "sha256-4wByVZoOLhrXFx9oK19GBmRcjGoJolQ3Gwx9vQV/n8s=";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    poetry-core
+  ];
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = lib.optionals (pythonOlder "3.8") [
+    importlib-metadata
+  ];
+
+  checkInputs = [
+    pytest-asyncio
+    pytestCheckHook
+    toml
+  ];
+
+  patches = [
+    # Switch to poetry-core, https://github.com/mjpieters/aiolimiter/pull/77
+    (fetchpatch {
+      name = "switch-to-peotry-core.patch";
+      url = "https://github.com/mjpieters/aiolimiter/commit/84a85eff42621b0daff8fcf6bb485db313faae0b.patch";
+      sha256 = "sha256-xUfJwLvMF2Xt/V1bKBFn/fjn1uyw7bGNo9RpWxtyr50=";
+    })
+  ];
+
+  postPatch = ''
+    substituteInPlace tox.ini \
+      --replace " --cov=aiolimiter --cov-config=tox.ini --cov-report term-missing" ""
+  '';
+
+  pythonImportsCheck = [
+    "aiolimiter"
+  ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Implementation of a rate limiter for asyncio";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/mjpieters/aiolimiter";
+    license = with licenses; [ mit ];
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ fab ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 9e06e71c66b..8ebd87e812a 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -344,6 +344,8 @@ in {
 
   aiolifx-effects = callPackage ../development/python-modules/aiolifx-effects { };
 
+  aiolimiter = callPackage ../development/python-modules/aiolimiter { };
+
   aiolip = callPackage ../development/python-modules/aiolip { };
 
   aiolyric = callPackage ../development/python-modules/aiolyric { };