diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 47935533e..9198654c4 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -25,6 +25,14 @@ If you love `detect-secrets`, please star our project on GitHub to show your sup
 [@xxxx]: https://github.com/xxxx
 -->
 
+<!--
+### Unreleased
+##### January 14th, 2025
+#### :tada: New Features
+- Added a detector for Aiven token ([#910])
+[#910]: https://github.com/Yelp/detect-secrets/pull/910
+-->
+
 ### v1.5.0
 ##### May 6th, 2024
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 1a08f131c..6df781277 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ $ git ls-files -z | xargs -0 detect-secrets-hook --baseline .secrets.baseline
 
 ```bash
 $ detect-secrets scan --list-all-plugins
+AivenTokenDetector
 ArtifactoryDetector
 AWSKeyDetector
 AzureStorageKeyDetector
diff --git a/detect_secrets/plugins/aiven_token.py b/detect_secrets/plugins/aiven_token.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d24d23992
--- /dev/null
+++ b/detect_secrets/plugins/aiven_token.py
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+"""
+This plugin searches for Aiven tokens
+"""
+import re
+
+from detect_secrets.plugins.base import RegexBasedDetector
+
+
+class AivenTokenDetector(RegexBasedDetector):
+    """Scans for Aiven tokens."""
+    secret_type = 'Aiven Token'
+
+    denylist = [
+        # Aiven tokens follow the pattern: AVNS_<alphanumeric and underscores with a minimum length of 8>
+        re.compile(r'AVNS_[A-Za-z0-9_]{8,}'),
+    ]
diff --git a/tests/plugins/aiven_token_test.py b/tests/plugins/aiven_token_test.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..610ecbc69
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/plugins/aiven_token_test.py
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+import pytest
+
+from detect_secrets.plugins.aiven_token import AivenTokenDetector
+
+
+class TestAivenTokenDetector:
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
+        'payload, should_flag',
+        [
+            ('AVNS_4Yt6Gdnjcs8ivIlYSFU', True),
+            ('AVNS_D0j9bUsCyQ3s67T', True),
+            ('AVNS_LaGqz39AC', True),
+            ('AVNS_RaFIf_JzHxFXlKs', True),
+            ('AVNS_UahLjsENr4QexJ1', True),
+            ('foo', False),
+            ('AVNS_', False),  # Incomplete token
+            ('AVNS12345678', False),  # Missing underscore
+        ],
+    )
+    def test_analyze(self, payload, should_flag):
+        logic = AivenTokenDetector()
+        output = logic.analyze_line(filename='mock_filename', line=payload)
+        assert len(output) == int(should_flag)