diff --git a/bigframes/core/indexes/base.py b/bigframes/core/indexes/base.py
index 9b4b5e4290..6da68e2e8f 100644
--- a/bigframes/core/indexes/base.py
+++ b/bigframes/core/indexes/base.py
@@ -451,6 +451,12 @@ def drop_duplicates(self, *, keep: str = "first") -> Index:
         block = block_ops.drop_duplicates(self._block, self._block.index_columns, keep)
         return Index(block)
 
+    def unique(self, level: Hashable | int | None = None) -> Index:
+        if level is None:
+            return self.drop_duplicates()
+
+        return self.get_level_values(level).drop_duplicates()
+
     def isin(self, values) -> Index:
         if not utils.is_list_like(values):
             raise TypeError(
diff --git a/tests/system/small/core/indexes/test_base.py b/tests/system/small/core/indexes/test_base.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..05ea40cfb9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/system/small/core/indexes/test_base.py
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+# Copyright 2025 Google LLC
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+from packaging import version
+import pandas as pd
+import pandas.testing
+import pytest
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("level", [None, 0, 1, "level0", "level1"])
+def test_unique(session, level):
+    if version.Version(pd.__version__) < version.Version("2.0.0"):
+        pytest.skip("StringDtype for multi-index not supported until Pandas 2.0")
+    arrays = [
+        pd.Series(["A", "A", "B", "B", "A"], dtype=pd.StringDtype(storage="pyarrow")),
+        pd.Series([1, 2, 1, 2, 1], dtype=pd.Int64Dtype()),
+    ]
+    pd_idx = pd.MultiIndex.from_arrays(arrays, names=["level0", "level1"])
+    bf_idx = session.read_pandas(pd_idx)
+
+    actual_result = bf_idx.unique(level).to_pandas()
+
+    expected_result = pd_idx.unique(level)
+    pandas.testing.assert_index_equal(actual_result, expected_result)
diff --git a/third_party/bigframes_vendored/pandas/core/indexes/base.py b/third_party/bigframes_vendored/pandas/core/indexes/base.py
index c94f707671..be1c5034f9 100644
--- a/third_party/bigframes_vendored/pandas/core/indexes/base.py
+++ b/third_party/bigframes_vendored/pandas/core/indexes/base.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # Contains code from https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/blob/main/pandas/core/indexes/base.py
 from __future__ import annotations
 
+from collections.abc import Hashable
 import typing
 
 from bigframes import constants
@@ -1061,6 +1062,28 @@ def drop_duplicates(self, *, keep: str = "first"):
         """
         raise NotImplementedError(constants.ABSTRACT_METHOD_ERROR_MESSAGE)
 
+    def unique(self, level: Hashable | int | None = None):
+        """
+        Returns unique values in the index.
+
+        **Examples:**
+
+            >>> import bigframes.pandas as bpd
+            >>> bpd.options.display.progress_bar = None
+            >>> idx = bpd.Index([1, 1, 2, 3, 3])
+            >>> idx.unique()
+            Index([1, 2, 3], dtype='Int64')
+
+        Args:
+            level (int or hashable, optional):
+                Only return values from specified level (for MultiIndex).
+                If int, gets the level by integer position, else by level name.
+
+        Returns:
+            bigframes.pandas.Index
+        """
+        raise NotImplementedError(constants.ABSTRACT_METHOD_ERROR_MESSAGE)
+
     def to_numpy(self, dtype, *, allow_large_results=None):
         """
         A NumPy ndarray representing the values in this Series or Index.