diff --git a/httpclient/useragent.go b/httpclient/useragent.go
index 5d444ae511..36b494c014 100644
--- a/httpclient/useragent.go
+++ b/httpclient/useragent.go
@@ -5,12 +5,14 @@ import (
 	"log"
 	"os"
 	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform-plugin-sdk/meta"
 )
 
 const uaEnvVar = "TF_APPEND_USER_AGENT"
 
 func TerraformUserAgent(version string) string {
-	ua := fmt.Sprintf("HashiCorp Terraform/%s (+https://www.terraform.io)", version)
+	ua := fmt.Sprintf("HashiCorp Terraform/%s (+https://www.terraform.io) Terraform Plugin SDK/%s", version, meta.SDKVersionString())
 
 	if add := os.Getenv(uaEnvVar); add != "" {
 		add = strings.TrimSpace(add)
diff --git a/httpclient/useragent_test.go b/httpclient/useragent_test.go
index afa9a545b8..e5d88ed9a2 100644
--- a/httpclient/useragent_test.go
+++ b/httpclient/useragent_test.go
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
 	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform-plugin-sdk/meta"
 )
 
 func TestUserAgentAppendViaEnvVar(t *testing.T) {
@@ -13,7 +15,7 @@ func TestUserAgentAppendViaEnvVar(t *testing.T) {
 		defer os.Unsetenv(uaEnvVar)
 	}
 
-	expectedBase := "HashiCorp Terraform/0.0.0 (+https://www.terraform.io)"
+	expectedBase := "HashiCorp Terraform/0.0.0 (+https://www.terraform.io) Terraform Plugin SDK/" + meta.SDKVersionString()
 
 	testCases := []struct {
 		envVarValue string
diff --git a/meta/meta.go b/meta/meta.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d102894d2a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/meta.go
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+// The meta package provides a location to set the release version
+// and any other relevant metadata for the SDK.
+//
+// This package should not import any other SDK packages.
+package meta
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+
+	version "github.com/hashicorp/go-version"
+)
+
+// The main version number that is being run at the moment.
+var SDKVersion = "1.0.0"
+
+// A pre-release marker for the version. If this is "" (empty string)
+// then it means that it is a final release. Otherwise, this is a pre-release
+// such as "dev" (in development), "beta", "rc1", etc.
+var SDKPrerelease = "dev"
+
+// SemVer is an instance of version.Version. This has the secondary
+// benefit of verifying during tests and init time that our version is a
+// proper semantic version, which should always be the case.
+var SemVer *version.Version
+
+func init() {
+	SemVer = version.Must(version.NewVersion(SDKVersion))
+}
+
+// VersionString returns the complete version string, including prerelease
+func SDKVersionString() string {
+	if SDKPrerelease != "" {
+		return fmt.Sprintf("%s-%s", SDKVersion, SDKPrerelease)
+	}
+	return SDKVersion
+}