diff --git a/src/zeroband/train.py b/src/zeroband/train.py
index a48f0d83..43c580ef 100644
--- a/src/zeroband/train.py
+++ b/src/zeroband/train.py
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 from zeroband.comms import ElasticDeviceMesh
 
 from zeroband.utils import GPUMemoryMonitor, PerfCounter, get_module_signature, get_sharding_strategy
+from zeroband.utils.activation_ckpt import apply_ac_ckpt
 from zeroband.utils.monitor import WandbMonitor, DummyMonitor
 from zeroband.data import TEST_VOCAB_SIZE, get_dataloader
 from zeroband.models.llama import get_model
@@ -51,7 +52,7 @@ class TrainConfig(BaseConfig):
     micro_bs: int
     torch_compile: bool = True
     sharding_strategy: str = "SHARD_GRAD_OP"
-
+    ac_ckpt: bool | int = False
     log_model_hash: bool = False
 
 
@@ -137,6 +138,10 @@ def train(config: Config):
         config.data.seq_length,
     )
 
+    if config.train.ac_ckpt:
+        num = 1 if isinstance(config.train.ac_ckpt, bool) else config.train.ac_ckpt
+        apply_ac_ckpt(model, num)
+
     elastic_device_mesh = ElasticDeviceMesh()
 
     model = FSDP(
diff --git a/src/zeroband/utils/activation_ckpt.py b/src/zeroband/utils/activation_ckpt.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..18410b28
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/zeroband/utils/activation_ckpt.py
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+from zeroband.models.llama.model import Transformer
+
+from torch.distributed.algorithms._checkpoint.checkpoint_wrapper import checkpoint_wrapper
+
+from zeroband.utils.logging import get_logger
+
+
+def apply_ac_ckpt(model: Transformer, num: int):
+    """Apply activation checkpointing to the model.
+    Apply to layers multiple of `num`.
+
+    Example if `num=2` only half of the layers are checkpointed.
+    """
+    logger = get_logger()
+
+    layers_ckpt = 0
+
+    for layer_id, transformer_block in model.layers.named_children():
+        if layers_ckpt % num == 0:
+            transformer_block = checkpoint_wrapper(transformer_block, preserve_rng_state=False)
+            model.layers.register_module(layer_id, transformer_block)
+            layers_ckpt += 1
+
+    logger.info(f"Applied activation checkpointing to {layers_ckpt} layers")
diff --git a/tests/test_torchrun/test_train.py b/tests/test_torchrun/test_train.py
index 79bbc61c..b6047270 100644
--- a/tests/test_torchrun/test_train.py
+++ b/tests/test_torchrun/test_train.py
@@ -71,3 +71,13 @@ def test_multi_gpu_diloco_non_full_shard(strategy):
     # we don't test 1,1 and 2,1 because 1 solo gpu failed with fsdp
     num_gpus = [2, 2]
     _test_multi_gpu(num_gpus, "debug/diloco.toml", extra_args=["--train.sharding_strategy", strategy])
+
+
+def test_act_ckpt():
+    num_gpus = [1, 2]
+    _test_multi_gpu(num_gpus, "debug/normal.toml", extra_args=["--train.ac_ckpt"])
+
+
+def test_act_ckpt_num():
+    num_gpus = [1, 2]
+    _test_multi_gpu(num_gpus, "debug/normal.toml", extra_args=["--train.ac_ckpt", "2"])