diff --git a/paddle/fluid/inference/api/analysis_predictor_tester.cc b/paddle/fluid/inference/api/analysis_predictor_tester.cc
index a15a1cd84b14094c6ea95f94ffaaf31f4a790376..9c7e5c6b27e68ee10be5f8b56d6de4aea4524078 100644
--- a/paddle/fluid/inference/api/analysis_predictor_tester.cc
+++ b/paddle/fluid/inference/api/analysis_predictor_tester.cc
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@
 // limitations under the License.
 
 #include "paddle/fluid/inference/api/analysis_predictor.h"
+#if defined(PADDLE_WITH_CUDA)
+#include <cuda_runtime.h>
+#endif
 #include <glog/logging.h>
 #include <gtest/gtest.h>
 #include <thread>  // NOLINT
@@ -405,4 +408,83 @@ TEST(Predictor, Run) {
   predictor->TryShrinkMemory();
 }
 
+TEST(Tensor, CpuShareExternalData) {
+  Config config;
+  config.SetModel(FLAGS_dirname);
+
+  auto predictor = CreatePredictor(config);
+
+  auto w0 = predictor->GetInputHandle("firstw");
+  auto w1 = predictor->GetInputHandle("secondw");
+  auto w2 = predictor->GetInputHandle("thirdw");
+  auto w3 = predictor->GetInputHandle("forthw");
+
+  std::vector<std::vector<int64_t>> input_data(4, {0, 1, 2, 3});
+  w0->ShareExternalData<int64_t>(input_data[0].data(), {4, 1}, PlaceType::kCPU);
+  w1->ShareExternalData<int64_t>(input_data[1].data(), {4, 1}, PlaceType::kCPU);
+  w2->ShareExternalData<int64_t>(input_data[2].data(), {4, 1}, PlaceType::kCPU);
+  w3->ShareExternalData<int64_t>(input_data[3].data(), {4, 1}, PlaceType::kCPU);
+
+  auto out = predictor->GetOutputHandle("fc_1.tmp_2");
+  auto out_shape = out->shape();
+  std::vector<float> out_data;
+  out_data.resize(std::accumulate(out_shape.begin(), out_shape.end(), 1,
+                                  std::multiplies<int>()));
+  out->ShareExternalData<float>(out_data.data(), out_shape, PlaceType::kCPU);
+
+  predictor->Run();
+
+  PlaceType place;
+  int size = 0;
+  out->data<float>(&place, &size);
+  LOG(INFO) << "output size: " << size / sizeof(float);
+  predictor->TryShrinkMemory();
+}
+
+#if defined(PADDLE_WITH_CUDA)
+TEST(Tensor, GpuShareExternalData) {
+  Config config;
+  config.SetModel(FLAGS_dirname);
+  config.EnableUseGpu(100, 0);
+
+  auto predictor = CreatePredictor(config);
+
+  auto w0 = predictor->GetInputHandle("firstw");
+  auto w1 = predictor->GetInputHandle("secondw");
+  auto w2 = predictor->GetInputHandle("thirdw");
+  auto w3 = predictor->GetInputHandle("forthw");
+
+  std::vector<std::vector<int64_t>> input_data(4, {0, 1, 2, 3});
+  std::vector<int64_t*> input_gpu(4, nullptr);
+
+  for (size_t i = 0; i < 4; ++i) {
+    cudaMalloc(reinterpret_cast<void**>(&input_gpu[i]), 4 * sizeof(int64_t));
+    cudaMemcpy(input_gpu[i], input_data[i].data(), 4 * sizeof(int64_t),
+               cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+  }
+
+  w0->ShareExternalData<int64_t>(input_gpu[0], {4, 1}, PlaceType::kGPU);
+  w1->ShareExternalData<int64_t>(input_gpu[1], {4, 1}, PlaceType::kGPU);
+  w2->ShareExternalData<int64_t>(input_gpu[2], {4, 1}, PlaceType::kGPU);
+  w3->ShareExternalData<int64_t>(input_gpu[3], {4, 1}, PlaceType::kGPU);
+
+  auto out = predictor->GetOutputHandle("fc_1.tmp_2");
+  auto out_shape = out->shape();
+  float* out_data;
+  auto out_size = std::accumulate(out_shape.begin(), out_shape.end(), 1,
+                                  std::multiplies<int>()) *
+                  sizeof(float);
+  cudaMalloc(reinterpret_cast<void**>(out_data), out_size * sizeof(float));
+  out->ShareExternalData<float>(out_data, out_shape, PlaceType::kGPU);
+
+  predictor->Run();
+
+  PlaceType place;
+  int size = 0;
+  out->data<float>(&place, &size);
+  LOG(INFO) << "output size: " << size / sizeof(float);
+  predictor->TryShrinkMemory();
+}
+#endif
+
 }  // namespace paddle_infer
diff --git a/paddle/fluid/inference/api/details/zero_copy_tensor.cc b/paddle/fluid/inference/api/details/zero_copy_tensor.cc
index 1d09b01f8f852f2bb7f668d0e2b4ee3250c9cc64..18b1d09f0e8a7c4be9862991060a4706ee7cde7e 100644
--- a/paddle/fluid/inference/api/details/zero_copy_tensor.cc
+++ b/paddle/fluid/inference/api/details/zero_copy_tensor.cc
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 #include "paddle/fluid/memory/memcpy.h"
 #include "paddle/fluid/platform/enforce.h"
 #include "paddle/fluid/platform/float16.h"
+#include "paddle/phi/core/allocator.h"
 
 namespace paddle_infer {
 
@@ -205,6 +206,73 @@ void Tensor::CopyFromCpu(const T *data) {
   }
 }
 
+template <typename T>
+struct DataTypeInfo;
+
+template <>
+struct DataTypeInfo<float> {
+  paddle::experimental::DataType TYPE = paddle::experimental::DataType::FLOAT32;
+};
+
+template <>
+struct DataTypeInfo<float16> {
+  paddle::experimental::DataType TYPE = paddle::experimental::DataType::FLOAT16;
+};
+
+template <>
+struct DataTypeInfo<int64_t> {
+  paddle::experimental::DataType TYPE = paddle::experimental::DataType::INT64;
+};
+
+template <>
+struct DataTypeInfo<int8_t> {
+  paddle::experimental::DataType TYPE = paddle::experimental::DataType::INT8;
+};
+
+template <>
+struct DataTypeInfo<uint8_t> {
+  paddle::experimental::DataType TYPE = paddle::experimental::DataType::UINT8;
+};
+
+template <>
+struct DataTypeInfo<int32_t> {
+  paddle::experimental::DataType TYPE = paddle::experimental::DataType::INT32;
+};
+
+paddle::experimental::DataLayout LayoutConvert(DataLayout layout) {
+  PADDLE_ENFORCE_EQ(
+      layout, DataLayout::kNCHW,
+      paddle::platform::errors::InvalidArgument("Only NCHW is supported now."));
+  return paddle::experimental::DataLayout::NCHW;
+}
+
+template <typename T>
+void Tensor::ShareExternalData(const T *data, const std::vector<int> &shape,
+                               PlaceType place, DataLayout layout) {
+  EAGER_GET_TENSOR(paddle::framework::LoDTensor)
+  size_t size =
+      std::accumulate(shape.begin(), shape.end(), 1, std::multiplies<int>()) *
+      sizeof(T);
+  phi::DenseTensorMeta meta(DataTypeInfo<T>().TYPE, phi::make_ddim(shape),
+                            LayoutConvert(layout));
+  if (place == PlaceType::kCPU) {
+    phi::DenseTensor dtensor(
+        std::make_shared<phi::Allocation>(const_cast<T *>(data), size,
+                                          paddle::platform::CPUPlace()),
+        meta);
+    *tensor = std::move(dtensor);
+  } else if (place == PlaceType::kGPU) {
+    phi::DenseTensor dtensor(
+        std::make_shared<phi::Allocation>(const_cast<T *>(data), size,
+                                          paddle::platform::CUDAPlace(device_)),
+        meta);
+    *tensor = std::move(dtensor);
+  } else {
+    PADDLE_THROW(paddle::platform::errors::InvalidArgument(
+        "PlaceType must be PlaceType::kCPU or PlaceType::kGPU."));
+  }
+}
+
 void Tensor::CopyStringsFromCpu(const paddle_infer::Strings *data) {
   EAGER_GET_TENSOR(paddle_infer::Strings);
   PADDLE_ENFORCE_GE(tensor->size(), 0,
@@ -334,6 +402,25 @@ template PD_INFER_DECL void Tensor::CopyFromCpu<uint8_t>(const uint8_t *data);
 template PD_INFER_DECL void Tensor::CopyFromCpu<int8_t>(const int8_t *data);
 template PD_INFER_DECL void Tensor::CopyFromCpu<float16>(const float16 *data);
 
+template PD_INFER_DECL void Tensor::ShareExternalData<float>(
+    const float *data, const std::vector<int> &shape, PlaceType place,
+    DataLayout layout);
+template PD_INFER_DECL void Tensor::ShareExternalData<int64_t>(
+    const int64_t *data, const std::vector<int> &shape, PlaceType place,
+    DataLayout layout);
+template PD_INFER_DECL void Tensor::ShareExternalData<int32_t>(
+    const int32_t *data, const std::vector<int> &shape, PlaceType place,
+    DataLayout layout);
+template PD_INFER_DECL void Tensor::ShareExternalData<uint8_t>(
+    const uint8_t *data, const std::vector<int> &shape, PlaceType place,
+    DataLayout layout);
+template PD_INFER_DECL void Tensor::ShareExternalData<int8_t>(
+    const int8_t *data, const std::vector<int> &shape, PlaceType place,
+    DataLayout layout);
+template PD_INFER_DECL void Tensor::ShareExternalData<float16>(
+    const float16 *data, const std::vector<int> &shape, PlaceType place,
+    DataLayout layout);
+
 template PD_INFER_DECL void Tensor::CopyToCpu<float>(float *data) const;
 template PD_INFER_DECL void Tensor::CopyToCpu<int64_t>(int64_t *data) const;
 template PD_INFER_DECL void Tensor::CopyToCpu<int32_t>(int32_t *data) const;
diff --git a/paddle/fluid/inference/api/paddle_tensor.h b/paddle/fluid/inference/api/paddle_tensor.h
index 81eecbb2c1480499b81556c48d021a8ff8929899..5a98d109aed79cc5bcefdc01b47a166bdf9c01d9 100644
--- a/paddle/fluid/inference/api/paddle_tensor.h
+++ b/paddle/fluid/inference/api/paddle_tensor.h
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ enum DataType {
 
 enum class PlaceType { kUNK = -1, kCPU, kGPU, kXPU, kNPU, kIPU };
 
+enum class DataLayout { kUNK = -1, kAny, kNHWC, kNCHW };
+
 /// \brief Represents an n-dimensional array of values.
 /// The Tensor is used to store the input or output of the network.
 /// Zero copy means that the tensor supports direct copy of host or device data
@@ -92,6 +94,17 @@ class PD_INFER_DECL Tensor {
   template <typename T>
   void CopyFromCpu(const T* data);
 
+  /// \brief Share the data with tensor data.
+  /// It's usually used to set the tensor data.
+  /// \param data The pointer of the data, from which the tensor will share.
+  /// \param shape The shape of data.
+  /// \param place The place of data.
+  /// \param layout The layout of data. Only NCHW is supported now.
+  template <typename T>
+  void ShareExternalData(const T* data, const std::vector<int>& shape,
+                         PlaceType place,
+                         DataLayout layout = DataLayout::kNCHW);
+
   /// \brief Experimental interface.
   /// It's usually used to set the input tensor data with Strings data type.
   /// \param data The pointer of the data, from which the tensor will copy.