diff --git a/docs/spark_expressions_support.md b/docs/spark_expressions_support.md
index 5474894108..bfff05b2e0 100644
--- a/docs/spark_expressions_support.md
+++ b/docs/spark_expressions_support.md
@@ -460,7 +460,7 @@
 - [ ] try_to_binary
 - [ ] try_to_number
 - [x] ucase
-- [ ] unbase64
+- [x] unbase64
 - [x] upper
 
 ### struct_funcs
diff --git a/spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/comet/serde/QueryPlanSerde.scala b/spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/comet/serde/QueryPlanSerde.scala
index 9d13ccd9ed..51c55df755 100644
--- a/spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/comet/serde/QueryPlanSerde.scala
+++ b/spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/comet/serde/QueryPlanSerde.scala
@@ -178,6 +178,7 @@ object QueryPlanSerde extends Logging with CometExprShim {
     classOf[Left] -> CometLeft,
     classOf[Right] -> CometRight,
     classOf[Substring] -> CometSubstring,
+    classOf[UnBase64] -> CometUnBase64,
     classOf[Upper] -> CometUpper)
 
   private val bitwiseExpressions: Map[Class[_ <: Expression], CometExpressionSerde[_]] = Map(
diff --git a/spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/comet/serde/strings.scala b/spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/comet/serde/strings.scala
index 64ba644048..892aa152f1 100644
--- a/spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/comet/serde/strings.scala
+++ b/spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/comet/serde/strings.scala
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ package org.apache.comet.serde
 
 import java.util.Locale
 
-import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.expressions.{Attribute, Cast, Concat, ConcatWs, Expression, If, InitCap, IsNull, Left, Length, Like, Literal, Lower, RegExpReplace, Right, RLike, StringLPad, StringRepeat, StringRPad, StringSplit, Substring, Upper}
+import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.expressions.{Attribute, Cast, Concat, ConcatWs, Expression, If, InitCap, IsNull, Left, Length, Like, Literal, Lower, RegExpReplace, Right, RLike, StringLPad, StringRepeat, StringRPad, StringSplit, Substring, UnBase64, Upper}
 import org.apache.spark.sql.types.{BinaryType, DataTypes, LongType, StringType}
 import org.apache.spark.unsafe.types.UTF8String
 
@@ -31,6 +31,28 @@ import org.apache.comet.expressions.{CometCast, CometEvalMode, RegExp}
 import org.apache.comet.serde.ExprOuterClass.Expr
 import org.apache.comet.serde.QueryPlanSerde.{createBinaryExpr, exprToProtoInternal, optExprWithInfo, scalarFunctionExprToProto, scalarFunctionExprToProtoWithReturnType}
 
+object CometUnBase64 extends CometExpressionSerde[UnBase64] {
+
+  override def getSupportLevel(expr: UnBase64): SupportLevel = {
+    if (expr.failOnError) {
+      Unsupported(Some("unbase64 with failOnError is not supported"))
+    } else {
+      Compatible()
+    }
+  }
+
+  override def convert(
+      expr: UnBase64,
+      inputs: Seq[Attribute],
+      binding: Boolean): Option[ExprOuterClass.Expr] = {
+    val inputExpr = exprToProtoInternal(expr.child, inputs, binding)
+    val encodingExpr = exprToProtoInternal(Literal("base64"), inputs, binding)
+    val optExpr = scalarFunctionExprToProto("decode", inputExpr, encodingExpr)
+    optExprWithInfo(optExpr, expr, expr.child)
+  }
+}
+
+
 object CometStringRepeat extends CometExpressionSerde[StringRepeat] {
 
   override def convert(
diff --git a/spark/src/test/scala/org/apache/comet/CometStringExpressionSuite.scala b/spark/src/test/scala/org/apache/comet/CometStringExpressionSuite.scala
index 121d7f7d5a..f5be9ca55b 100644
--- a/spark/src/test/scala/org/apache/comet/CometStringExpressionSuite.scala
+++ b/spark/src/test/scala/org/apache/comet/CometStringExpressionSuite.scala
@@ -148,6 +148,31 @@ class CometStringExpressionSuite extends CometTestBase {
     }
   }
 
+  test("unbase64") {
+    val data = Seq(
+      "SGVsbG8=", // base64("Hello")
+      "U3BhcmsgU1FM", // base64("Spark SQL")
+      "", // empty
+      null).map(Tuple1(_))
+    withParquetTable(data, "tbl") {
+      // unbase64 decoding from column
+      checkSparkAnswerAndOperator("SELECT unbase64(_1) FROM tbl")
+      // unbase64 with inline literal
+      checkSparkAnswerAndOperator("SELECT unbase64('U3BhcmsgU1FM') FROM tbl")
+      // null handling
+      checkSparkAnswerAndOperator("SELECT unbase64(NULL) FROM tbl")
+    }
+  }
+
+  test("to_binary with base64 falls back (failOnError)") {
+    val data = Seq("SGVsbG8=", "U3BhcmsgU1FM").map(Tuple1(_))
+    withParquetTable(data, "tbl") {
+      checkSparkAnswerAndFallbackReason(
+        "SELECT to_binary(_1, 'base64') FROM tbl",
+        "unbase64 with failOnError is not supported")
+    }
+  }
+
   test("split string basic") {
     withSQLConf("spark.comet.expression.StringSplit.allowIncompatible" -> "true") {
       withParquetTable((0 until 5).map(i => (s"value$i,test$i", i)), "tbl") {