diff --git a/config/config.go b/config/config.go
index 538f191fb..e0e6d30a8 100644
--- a/config/config.go
+++ b/config/config.go
@@ -776,6 +776,9 @@ type MempoolConfig struct {
 	// NOTE: the max size of a tx transmitted over the network is {max-tx-bytes}.
 	MaxTxBytes int `mapstructure:"max-tx-bytes"`
 
+	// Maximum gas wanted of a single transaction
+	MaxTxGasWanted int64 `mapstructure:"max-tx-gas-wanted"`
+
 	// Maximum size of a batch of transactions to send to a peer
 	// Including space needed by encoding (one varint per transaction).
 	// XXX: Unused due to https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/issues/5796
@@ -827,6 +830,7 @@ func DefaultMempoolConfig() *MempoolConfig {
 		MaxTxsBytes:                  1024 * 1024 * 1024, // 1GB
 		CacheSize:                    10000,
 		MaxTxBytes:                   1024 * 1024, // 1MB
+		MaxTxGasWanted:               0,
 		TTLDuration:                  0 * time.Second,
 		TTLNumBlocks:                 0,
 		TxNotifyThreshold:            0,
diff --git a/config/toml.go b/config/toml.go
index 0dceb12e5..0f426469e 100644
--- a/config/toml.go
+++ b/config/toml.go
@@ -381,6 +381,9 @@ keep-invalid-txs-in-cache = {{ .Mempool.KeepInvalidTxsInCache }}
 # NOTE: the max size of a tx transmitted over the network is {max-tx-bytes}.
 max-tx-bytes = {{ .Mempool.MaxTxBytes }}
 
+# Maximum gas of a single transaction.
+max-tx-gas-wanted = {{ .Mempool.MaxTxGasWanted }}
+
 # Maximum size of a batch of transactions to send to a peer
 # Including space needed by encoding (one varint per transaction).
 # XXX: Unused due to https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/issues/5796
diff --git a/internal/mempool/mempool.go b/internal/mempool/mempool.go
index 1f069b1c9..05bd7335a 100644
--- a/internal/mempool/mempool.go
+++ b/internal/mempool/mempool.go
@@ -368,6 +368,10 @@ func (txmp *TxMempool) CheckTx(
 	return nil
 }
 
+func (txmp *TxMempool) shouldExclude(wtx *WrappedTx) bool {
+	return txmp.config.MaxTxGasWanted > 0 && wtx.gasWanted > txmp.config.MaxTxGasWanted
+}
+
 func (txmp *TxMempool) isInMempool(tx types.Tx) bool {
 	existingTx := txmp.txStore.GetTxByHash(tx.Key())
 	return existingTx != nil && !existingTx.removed
@@ -681,6 +685,16 @@ func (txmp *TxMempool) addNewTransaction(wtx *WrappedTx, res *abci.ResponseCheck
 		txInfo.SenderID: {},
 	}
 
+	if txmp.shouldExclude(wtx) {
+		txmp.logger.Info(
+			"excluded good transaction which has high gas wanted",
+			"gasWanted", wtx.gasWanted,
+			"tx", fmt.Sprintf("%X", wtx.tx.Hash()),
+			"height", txmp.height,
+		)
+		return nil
+	}
+
 	if txmp.isInMempool(wtx.tx) {
 		return nil
 	}