diff --git a/.github/workflows/semver_checks.yml b/.github/workflows/semver_checks.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a52b751f76
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/semver_checks.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,126 @@
+# This workflow tests semver compatibilty.
+# For PRs it checks if PR makes any API breaking changes, and assings appropriate label if so.
+name: Semver checks
+
+on:
+  pull_request_target:
+    branches:
+    - main
+    - 'branch-*'
+  push:
+    tags:
+      - v*.*.*
+
+env:
+  CARGO_TERM_COLOR: always
+  RUST_BACKTRACE: full
+  PR_BASE: ${{ github.event.pull_request.base.sha }}
+  PR_HEAD: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
+  PR_ID: ${{ github.event.number }}
+
+jobs:
+  semver-pull-request-check:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    if: github.event_name == 'pull_request_target'
+    # Disable all permissions
+    # This is important, because this job runs on untrusted input from
+    # the user and it's possible for the user to take over the job,
+    # for example by adding malicious build.rs file. If the job had,
+    # for example, `pull_requests: write` permission, malicous user
+    # could do us a lot of harm. This is also the reason that there are
+    # 2 jobs - it's so that it's not possible to take over a job that
+    # has permissions.
+    permissions: {} 
+    timeout-minutes: 30
+    # This is to prevent a situation, when job A triggered by push 1 finishes
+    # after job B triggered by push 2. That could result in incorrectly assigning
+    # or removing a PR label.
+    concurrency:
+      # Can't use `env.PR_ID` because concurrency doesn't have access to env context.
+      group: semver-pull-request-check-${{ github.event.number }}
+      cancel-in-progress: true
+    outputs:
+      exitcode: ${{ steps.semver-pr-check.outputs.exitcode }}
+      output: ${{ steps.semver-pr-check.outputs.output }}
+    steps:
+    - name: Checkout
+      uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      with:
+        fetch-depth: "2"
+        ref: "refs/pull/${{ env.PR_ID }}/merge"
+    # Check if there was another push before this job started.
+    # If there was, wrong commit would be checked out.
+    - name: Sanity check
+      run: |
+        [[ "$(git rev-parse 'HEAD^2')" == "$PR_HEAD" ]]
+    # I don't know any way to do this using checkout action
+    - name: Fetch PR base
+      run: git fetch origin "$PR_BASE"
+    - name: Install semver-checks
+      # Official action uses binary releases fetched from GitHub
+      # If this pipeline becomes too slow, we should do this too
+      run: cargo install cargo-semver-checks --no-default-features
+    - name: Verify the API compatibilty with PR base
+      id: semver-pr-check
+      run: |
+        set +e
+        echo "output<<SEMVER_STDOUT_EOF" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+        # Weird sed strip ANSI colors from output
+        make semver-rev rev="$PR_BASE" |& tee /dev/tty | sed -r "s/\x1B\[([0-9]{1,2}(;[0-9]{1,2})?)?[mGK]//g" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+        exitcode=${PIPESTATUS[0]}
+        echo "SEMVER_STDOUT_EOF" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+        echo "exitcode=$exitcode" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+        exit "$exitcode"
+      continue-on-error: true
+
+  semver-pull-request-label:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    if: github.event_name == 'pull_request_target'
+    permissions:
+      pull-requests: write
+    needs: semver-pull-request-check
+    timeout-minutes: 3
+    steps:
+    - name: Remove breaking label on success
+      run: gh pr edit "$PR_ID" --remove-label semver-checks-breaking
+      if: needs.semver-pull-request-check.outputs.exitcode == '0'
+      env:
+        GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        GH_REPO: ${{ github.repository }}
+    - name: Add breaking label on failure
+      run: gh pr edit "$PR_ID" --add-label semver-checks-breaking
+      if: needs.semver-pull-request-check.outputs.exitcode != '0'
+      env:
+        GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        GH_REPO: ${{ github.repository }}
+    - name: Post report on semver break
+      run: |
+        gh pr comment "$PR_ID" --body "\
+        \`cargo semver-checks\` detected some API incompatibilities in this PR.
+        See the following report for details:
+        <details>
+        <summary>cargo semver-checks output</summary>
+
+        \`\`\`
+        $SEMVER_OUTPUT
+        \`\`\`
+
+        </details>
+        "
+      if: needs.semver-pull-request-check.outputs.exitcode != '0'
+      env:
+        GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        GH_REPO: ${{ github.repository }}
+        SEMVER_OUTPUT: ${{ needs.semver-pull-request-check.outputs.output }}
+
+
+  semver-push-tag:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    if: github.event_name == 'push'
+    timeout-minutes: 30
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+    - name: Install semver-checks
+      run: cargo install cargo-semver-checks --no-default-features
+    - name: Run semver-checks to see if it agrees with version updates
+      run: make semver-version
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index ec4c7c6bed..bb005944dd 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -86,6 +86,22 @@ There are a few scenarios:
          using command like `cargo update -p toml_datetime --precise 0.6.3` and go back to step 3.
       5. Rename `Cargo.lock` to `Cargo.lock.msrv`.
 
+### Semver checking 
+
+Our CI runs cargo semver-checks and labels PRs that introduce breaking changes.
+If you don't intend to change public API, you can perform the checks locally,
+using command `make semver-rev`. Make sure you have semver-checks installed first,
+you can install it using `cargo install cargo-semver-checks`.
+
+`make semver-rev` will check for API breaking changes using `main` branch as baseline.
+To use different branch / commit call `make semver-rev rev=BRANCH`.
+
+The tool is NOT perfect and only checks some aspect of semver-compatibility.
+It is NOT a replacement for a human reviewer, it is only supposed to help them
+and catch some erros that they might have missed.
+
+Tool that we curently use: https://github.com/obi1kenobi/cargo-semver-checks
+
 ## Contributing to the book
 
 The documentation book is written using [mdbook](https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook)\
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index e09ee6bc60..91d4485bf9 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -48,6 +48,14 @@ build:
 docs:
 	mdbook build docs
 
+.PHONY: semver-rev
+semver-rev:
+	./scripts/semver-checks.sh $(if $(rev),--baseline-rev $(rev),--baseline-rev main)
+
+.PHONY: semver-version
+semver-version:
+	./scripts/semver-checks.sh $(if $(version),--baseline-version $(version),)
+
 .PHONY: up
 up:
 	$(COMPOSE) up -d --wait
diff --git a/scripts/semver-checks.sh b/scripts/semver-checks.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..eafdb4629d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/semver-checks.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+set -x
+
+cargo semver-checks -p scylla -p scylla-cql $@