diff --git a/csharp/src/Microsoft.ML.OnnxRuntime/NativeMethods.shared.cs b/csharp/src/Microsoft.ML.OnnxRuntime/NativeMethods.shared.cs
index 67de9a3630..57ae4c2905 100644
--- a/csharp/src/Microsoft.ML.OnnxRuntime/NativeMethods.shared.cs
+++ b/csharp/src/Microsoft.ML.OnnxRuntime/NativeMethods.shared.cs
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 
 using System;
 using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
+using static Microsoft.ML.OnnxRuntime.NativeMethods;
 
 namespace Microsoft.ML.OnnxRuntime
 {
@@ -269,12 +270,18 @@ namespace Microsoft.ML.OnnxRuntime
         [UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.Winapi)]
         public delegate ref OrtApi DOrtGetApi(UInt32 version);
 
+        [UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.Winapi)]
+        public delegate IntPtr DOrtGetVersionString();
+
+        public static DOrtGetVersionString OrtGetVersionString;
+
         static NativeMethods()
         {
             DOrtGetApi OrtGetApi = (DOrtGetApi)Marshal.GetDelegateForFunctionPointer(OrtGetApiBase().GetApi, typeof(DOrtGetApi));
 
             // TODO: Make this save the pointer, and not copy the whole structure across
             api_ = (OrtApi)OrtGetApi(4 /*ORT_API_VERSION*/);
+            OrtGetVersionString = (DOrtGetVersionString)Marshal.GetDelegateForFunctionPointer(OrtGetApiBase().GetVersionString, typeof(DOrtGetVersionString));
 
             OrtCreateEnv = (DOrtCreateEnv)Marshal.GetDelegateForFunctionPointer(api_.CreateEnv, typeof(DOrtCreateEnv));
             OrtReleaseEnv = (DOrtReleaseEnv)Marshal.GetDelegateForFunctionPointer(api_.ReleaseEnv, typeof(DOrtReleaseEnv));
diff --git a/csharp/src/Microsoft.ML.OnnxRuntime/OnnxRuntime.shared.cs b/csharp/src/Microsoft.ML.OnnxRuntime/OnnxRuntime.shared.cs
index 7cab9e89b6..0f70013b0e 100644
--- a/csharp/src/Microsoft.ML.OnnxRuntime/OnnxRuntime.shared.cs
+++ b/csharp/src/Microsoft.ML.OnnxRuntime/OnnxRuntime.shared.cs
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.ML.OnnxRuntime
     public enum OrtLanguageProjection
     {
         ORT_PROJECTION_C = 0,
-        ORT_PROJECTION_CPLUSPLUS = 1 ,
+        ORT_PROJECTION_CPLUSPLUS = 1,
         ORT_PROJECTION_CSHARP = 2,
         ORT_PROJECTION_PYTHON = 3,
         ORT_PROJECTION_JAVA = 4,
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.ML.OnnxRuntime
     /// </summary>
     public sealed class OrtEnv : SafeHandle
     {
-        private static readonly Lazy<OrtEnv> _instance = new Lazy<OrtEnv>(()=> new OrtEnv());
+        private static readonly Lazy<OrtEnv> _instance = new Lazy<OrtEnv>(() => new OrtEnv());
         private static LogLevel envLogLevel = LogLevel.Warning;
 
         #region private methods
@@ -124,6 +124,16 @@ namespace Microsoft.ML.OnnxRuntime
             NativeApiStatus.VerifySuccess(NativeMethods.OrtCreateAndRegisterAllocator(Handle, memInfo.Pointer, arenaCfg.Pointer));
         }
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// This function returns the onnxruntime version string
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <returns>version string</returns>
+        public string GetVersionString()
+        {
+            IntPtr versionString = NativeMethods.OrtGetVersionString();
+            return NativeOnnxValueHelper.StringFromNativeUtf8(versionString);
+        }
+
         /// <summary>
         /// Queries all the execution providers supported in the native onnxruntime shared library
         /// </summary>
@@ -137,7 +147,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.ML.OnnxRuntime
             try
             {
                 var availableProviders = new string[numProviders];
-                for (int i=0; i<numProviders; ++i)
+                for (int i = 0; i < numProviders; ++i)
                 {
                     availableProviders[i] = NativeOnnxValueHelper.StringFromNativeUtf8(Marshal.ReadIntPtr(availableProvidersHandle, IntPtr.Size * i));
                 }
diff --git a/csharp/test/Microsoft.ML.OnnxRuntime.Tests.Common/InferenceTest.cs b/csharp/test/Microsoft.ML.OnnxRuntime.Tests.Common/InferenceTest.cs
index ed111b5d9b..357d1ca862 100644
--- a/csharp/test/Microsoft.ML.OnnxRuntime.Tests.Common/InferenceTest.cs
+++ b/csharp/test/Microsoft.ML.OnnxRuntime.Tests.Common/InferenceTest.cs
@@ -209,6 +209,14 @@ namespace Microsoft.ML.OnnxRuntime.Tests
             ortEnvInstance.EnableTelemetryEvents();
         }
 
+        [Fact(DisplayName = "GetVersionString")]
+        public void GetVersionString()
+        {
+            var ortEnvInstance = OrtEnv.Instance();
+            string versionString = ortEnvInstance.GetVersionString();
+            Assert.False(versionString.Length == 0);
+        }
+
         [Fact(DisplayName = "GetAvailableProviders")]
         public void GetAvailableProviders()
         {
diff --git a/include/onnxruntime/core/session/onnxruntime_cxx_api.h b/include/onnxruntime/core/session/onnxruntime_cxx_api.h
index 8924e14229..cfc4105372 100644
--- a/include/onnxruntime/core/session/onnxruntime_cxx_api.h
+++ b/include/onnxruntime/core/session/onnxruntime_cxx_api.h
@@ -120,6 +120,12 @@ const OrtApi* Global<T>::api_ = OrtGetApiBase()->GetApi(ORT_API_VERSION);
 /// This returns a reference to the OrtApi interface in use
 inline const OrtApi& GetApi() noexcept { return *Global<void>::api_; }
 
+/// <summary>
+/// This function returns the onnxruntime version string
+/// </summary>
+/// <returns>version string major.minor.rev</returns>
+std::string GetVersionString();
+
 /// <summary>
 /// This is a C++ wrapper for OrtApi::GetAvailableProviders() and
 /// returns a vector of strings representing the available execution providers.
diff --git a/include/onnxruntime/core/session/onnxruntime_cxx_inline.h b/include/onnxruntime/core/session/onnxruntime_cxx_inline.h
index 255e4729a3..b2b400fa9b 100644
--- a/include/onnxruntime/core/session/onnxruntime_cxx_inline.h
+++ b/include/onnxruntime/core/session/onnxruntime_cxx_inline.h
@@ -1848,6 +1848,11 @@ inline void CustomOpApi::ReleaseKernelInfo(_Frees_ptr_opt_ OrtKernelInfo* info_c
   api_.ReleaseKernelInfo(info_copy);
 }
 
+inline std::string GetVersionString() {
+  std::string result = OrtGetApiBase()->GetVersionString();
+  return result;
+}
+
 inline std::vector<std::string> GetAvailableProviders() {
   char** providers;
   int len;
diff --git a/onnxruntime/__init__.py b/onnxruntime/__init__.py
index 5e28b60faa..5e8b04cdc8 100644
--- a/onnxruntime/__init__.py
+++ b/onnxruntime/__init__.py
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ try:
         get_all_providers,
         get_available_providers,
         get_device,
+        get_version_string,
         set_default_logger_severity,
         set_default_logger_verbosity,
         set_seed,
diff --git a/onnxruntime/python/onnxruntime_pybind_module.cc b/onnxruntime/python/onnxruntime_pybind_module.cc
index 28434e0404..c224bec218 100644
--- a/onnxruntime/python/onnxruntime_pybind_module.cc
+++ b/onnxruntime/python/onnxruntime_pybind_module.cc
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 #include "onnxruntime_pybind.h"  // must use this for the include of <pybind11/pybind11.h>
 #include <pybind11/stl.h>
 #include "core/providers/get_execution_providers.h"
+#include "onnxruntime_config.h"
 
 namespace onnxruntime {
 namespace python {
@@ -19,6 +20,8 @@ PYBIND11_MODULE(onnxruntime_pybind11_state, m) {
       "Return list of available Execution Providers in this installed version of Onnxruntime. "
       "The order of elements represents the default priority order of Execution Providers "
       "from highest to lowest.");
+
+  m.def("get_version_string", []() -> std::string { return ORT_VERSION; });
 }
 }  // namespace python
 }  // namespace onnxruntime
diff --git a/onnxruntime/test/python/onnxruntime_test_python.py b/onnxruntime/test/python/onnxruntime_test_python.py
index 8232044a29..9e4d1f6a80 100644
--- a/onnxruntime/test/python/onnxruntime_test_python.py
+++ b/onnxruntime/test/python/onnxruntime_test_python.py
@@ -59,6 +59,9 @@ class TestInferenceSession(unittest.TestCase):
 
         self.assertTrue(tvm is not None)
 
+    def testGetVersionString(self):
+        self.assertIsNot(onnxrt.get_version_string(), None)
+
     def testModelSerialization(self):
         try:
             so = onnxrt.SessionOptions()
diff --git a/onnxruntime/test/shared_lib/test_inference.cc b/onnxruntime/test/shared_lib/test_inference.cc
index b984c90164..d61114ee5a 100644
--- a/onnxruntime/test/shared_lib/test_inference.cc
+++ b/onnxruntime/test/shared_lib/test_inference.cc
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@
 #include "core/session/onnxruntime_session_options_config_keys.h"
 #include "core/session/onnxruntime_run_options_config_keys.h"
 #include "core/util/thread_utils.h"
+
+#include "onnxruntime_config.h"
 #include "providers.h"
 #include "test_allocator.h"
 #include "test_fixture.h"
@@ -2122,6 +2124,13 @@ TEST(CApiTest, get_available_providers_cpp) {
   ASSERT_TRUE(std::find(providers.begin(), providers.end(), "CUDAExecutionProvider") != providers.end());
 #endif
 }
+
+TEST(CApiTest, get_version_string_cpp) {
+  std::string version_string = Ort::GetVersionString();
+  ASSERT_FALSE(version_string.empty());
+  ASSERT_EQ(version_string, ORT_VERSION);
+}
+
 TEST(CApiTest, TestSharedAllocators) {
   OrtEnv* env_ptr = (OrtEnv*)(*ort_env);
 
diff --git a/orttraining/orttraining/python/orttraining_python_module.cc b/orttraining/orttraining/python/orttraining_python_module.cc
index 0049932826..f2dbb27072 100644
--- a/orttraining/orttraining/python/orttraining_python_module.cc
+++ b/orttraining/orttraining/python/orttraining_python_module.cc
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 #include "core/common/path_string.h"
 #include "core/providers/get_execution_providers.h"
 #include "core/session/provider_bridge_ort.h"
+#include "onnxruntime_config.h"
 
 #ifdef ENABLE_EAGER_MODE
 #include "orttraining/python/orttraining_python_module_eager.h"
@@ -354,6 +355,8 @@ PYBIND11_MODULE(onnxruntime_pybind11_state, m) {
       "The order of elements represents the default priority order of Execution Providers "
       "from highest to lowest.");
 
+  m.def("get_version_string", []() -> std::string { return ORT_VERSION; });
+
   m.def("clear_training_ep_instances", []() -> void {
     ort_training_env->ClearExecutionProviderInstances();
   },