diff --git a/sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/optimizer/DeterministicLiteralUDFFolding.scala b/sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/optimizer/DeterministicLiteralUDFFolding.scala
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0bb08da8ba9f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/optimizer/DeterministicLiteralUDFFolding.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.optimizer
+
+import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.expressions.{Literal, ScalaUDF}
+import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.plans.logical._
+import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.rules._
+import org.apache.spark.sql.internal.SQLConf
+
+/**
+ * If the UDF is deterministic and if the children are all literal, we can replace the udf
+ * with the output of the udf serialized
+ */
+object DeterministicLiteralUDFFolding extends Rule[LogicalPlan] {
+  def apply(plan: LogicalPlan): LogicalPlan =
+    if (!SQLConf.get.deterministicLiteralUdfFoldingEnabled) {
+      plan
+    } else plan transformAllExpressions {
+      case udf @ ScalaUDF(_, dataType, children, _, _, _, _, _)
+          if udf.deterministic && children.forall(_.isInstanceOf[Literal]) =>
+        val res = udf.eval(null)
+        Literal(res, dataType)
+    }
+}
diff --git a/sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/optimizer/Optimizer.scala b/sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/optimizer/Optimizer.scala
index 5b59ac7d2a9b..db0f35c02e15 100644
--- a/sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/optimizer/Optimizer.scala
+++ b/sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/optimizer/Optimizer.scala
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ abstract class Optimizer(sessionCatalog: SessionCatalog)
         CombineLimits,
         CombineUnions,
         // Constant folding and strength reduction
+        DeterministicLiteralUDFFolding,
         TransposeWindow,
         NullPropagation,
         ConstantPropagation,
diff --git a/sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/internal/SQLConf.scala b/sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/internal/SQLConf.scala
index 71c830207701..7a1bb66e436d 100644
--- a/sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/internal/SQLConf.scala
+++ b/sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/internal/SQLConf.scala
@@ -1777,6 +1777,17 @@ object SQLConf {
     .doc("When true, the upcast will be loose and allows string to atomic types.")
     .booleanConf
     .createWithDefault(false)
+
+  val DETERMINISTIC_LITERAL_UDF_FOLDING_ENABLED =
+    buildConf("spark.sql.deterministic.literal.udf.folding.enabled")
+      .doc("When true, it will enable the optimization for a UDF that is deterministic and the " +
+        "inputs are all literals. When your inputs to the UDF are all literal and UDF is " +
+        "deterministic, we can optimize this to evaluate the UDF once and use the output " +
+        "instead of evaluating the UDF each time for every row in the query." +
+        "Ensure that your UDFs are correctly setup with respect to whether they are " +
+        "deterministic or not, before enabling this.")
+      .booleanConf
+      .createWithDefault(false)
 }
 
 /**
@@ -2235,6 +2246,10 @@ class SQLConf extends Serializable with Logging {
 
   def defaultV2Catalog: Option[String] = getConf(DEFAULT_V2_CATALOG)
 
+  def deterministicLiteralUdfFoldingEnabled: Boolean =
+    getConf(DETERMINISTIC_LITERAL_UDF_FOLDING_ENABLED)
+
+
   /** ********************** SQLConf functionality methods ************ */
 
   /** Set Spark SQL configuration properties. */
diff --git a/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/DeterministicLiteralUDFFoldingSuite.scala b/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/DeterministicLiteralUDFFoldingSuite.scala
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d9a3ed024792
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/DeterministicLiteralUDFFoldingSuite.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.spark.sql
+
+import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.expressions.ScalaUDF
+import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.plans.logical.LogicalPlan
+import org.apache.spark.sql.functions.udf
+import org.apache.spark.sql.internal.SQLConf
+import org.apache.spark.sql.test.SharedSQLContext
+
+class DeterministicLiteralUDFFoldingSuite extends QueryTest with SharedSQLContext {
+  import testImplicits._
+
+  test("Deterministic and literal UDF optimization") {
+    def udfNodesCount(plan: LogicalPlan): Int = {
+      plan.expressions.head.children.collect({
+        case f: ScalaUDF => f
+      }).length
+    }
+
+    val foo = udf(() => Math.random()).asNondeterministic()
+    spark.udf.register("random0", foo)
+    assert(!foo.deterministic)
+    val foo2 = udf((x: String, i: Int) => x.length + i)
+    spark.udf.register("mystrlen", foo2)
+    assert(foo2.deterministic)
+
+    Seq(("true", (1, 0, 0, 1)), ("false", (1, 1, 1, 1))).foreach { case (flag, expectedCounts) =>
+      withSQLConf(SQLConf.DETERMINISTIC_LITERAL_UDF_FOLDING_ENABLED.key -> flag) {
+        // Non deterministic
+        val plan = sql("SELECT random0()").queryExecution.optimizedPlan
+        assert(udfNodesCount(plan) == expectedCounts._1)
+
+        // udf is deterministic and args are literal
+        assert(sql("SELECT mystrlen('abc', 1)").head().getInt(0) == 4)
+        val plan2 = sql("SELECT mystrlen('abc', 1)").queryExecution.optimizedPlan
+        assert(udfNodesCount(plan2) == expectedCounts._2)
+        val plan3 = sql("SELECT mystrlen('abc', mystrlen('c', 1))").queryExecution.optimizedPlan
+        assert(udfNodesCount(plan3) == expectedCounts._3)
+
+        // udf is deterministic and args are not literal
+        withTempView("temp1") {
+          val df = sparkContext.parallelize(
+            (1 to 10).map(i => i.toString)).toDF("i1")
+          df.createOrReplaceTempView("temp1")
+          val plan = sql("SELECT mystrlen(i1, 1) FROM temp1").queryExecution.optimizedPlan
+          assert(udfNodesCount(plan) == expectedCounts._4)
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  test("udf folding rule in join") {
+    withTempView("temp1") {
+      val df = sparkContext.parallelize((1 to 5).map(i => i.toString)).toDF("i1")
+      df.createOrReplaceTempView("temp1")
+      val foo = udf((x: String, i: Int) => x.length + i)
+      spark.udf.register("mystrlen1", foo)
+      assert(foo.deterministic)
+
+      val query = "SELECT mystrlen1(i1, 1) FROM temp1, " +
+        "(SELECT mystrlen1('abc', mystrlen1('c', 1)) AS ref) WHERE mystrlen1(i1, ref) > 1"
+      assert(sql(query).count() == 5)
+
+      withSQLConf(SQLConf.DETERMINISTIC_LITERAL_UDF_FOLDING_ENABLED.key -> "true") {
+        val exception = intercept[AnalysisException] {
+          sql(query).count()
+        }
+        assert(exception.message.startsWith("Detected implicit cartesian product"))
+
+        withSQLConf(SQLConf.CROSS_JOINS_ENABLED.key -> "true") {
+          assert(sql(query).count() == 5)
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}