diff --git a/app/app.go b/app/app.go
index 4339cde64c..2c07fb517d 100644
--- a/app/app.go
+++ b/app/app.go
@@ -796,7 +796,8 @@ func NewEthermintApp(
 	case srvconfig.BlockExecutorBlockSTM:
 		sdk.SetAddrCacheEnabled(false)
 		workers := cast.ToInt(appOpts.Get(srvflags.EVMBlockSTMWorkers))
-		app.SetTxExecutor(STMTxExecutor(app.GetStoreKeys(), workers, true, app.EvmKeeper, txConfig.TxDecoder()))
+		preEstimate := cast.ToBool(appOpts.Get(srvflags.EVMBlockSTMPreEstimate))
+		app.SetTxExecutor(STMTxExecutor(app.GetStoreKeys(), workers, preEstimate, app.EvmKeeper, txConfig.TxDecoder()))
 	case "", srvconfig.BlockExecutorSequential:
 		app.SetTxExecutor(DefaultTxExecutor)
 	default:
diff --git a/server/config/config.go b/server/config/config.go
index 4182ef85e5..7fb16d37a5 100644
--- a/server/config/config.go
+++ b/server/config/config.go
@@ -134,6 +134,8 @@ type EVMConfig struct {
 	BlockExecutor string `mapstructure:"block-executor"`
 	// BlockSTMWorkers is the number of workers for block-stm execution, `0` means using all available CPUs.
 	BlockSTMWorkers int `mapstructure:"block-stm-workers"`
+	// BlockSTMPreEstimate is the flag to enable pre-estimation for block-stm execution.
+	BlockSTMPreEstimate bool `mapstructure:"block-stm-pre-estimate"`
 }
 
 // JSONRPCConfig defines configuration for the EVM RPC server.
@@ -407,10 +409,11 @@ func GetConfig(v *viper.Viper) (Config, error) {
 	return Config{
 		Config: cfg,
 		EVM: EVMConfig{
-			Tracer:          v.GetString("evm.tracer"),
-			MaxTxGasWanted:  v.GetUint64("evm.max-tx-gas-wanted"),
-			BlockExecutor:   v.GetString("evm.block-executor"),
-			BlockSTMWorkers: v.GetInt("evm.block-stm-workers"),
+			Tracer:              v.GetString("evm.tracer"),
+			MaxTxGasWanted:      v.GetUint64("evm.max-tx-gas-wanted"),
+			BlockExecutor:       v.GetString("evm.block-executor"),
+			BlockSTMWorkers:     v.GetInt("evm.block-stm-workers"),
+			BlockSTMPreEstimate: v.GetBool("evm.block-stm-pre-estimate"),
 		},
 		JSONRPC: JSONRPCConfig{
 			Enable:                   v.GetBool("json-rpc.enable"),
diff --git a/server/config/toml.go b/server/config/toml.go
index b82d492c7f..31b07d50a1 100644
--- a/server/config/toml.go
+++ b/server/config/toml.go
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ max-tx-gas-wanted = {{ .EVM.MaxTxGasWanted }}
 block-executor = "{{ .EVM.BlockExecutor }}"
 # BlockSTMWorkers is the number of workers for block-stm execution, 0 means using all available CPUs.
 block-stm-workers = {{ .EVM.BlockSTMWorkers }}
+# BlockSTMPreEstimate is the flag to enable pre-estimation for block-stm execution.
+block-stm-pre-estimate = {{ .EVM.BlockSTMPreEstimate }}
 
 ###############################################################################
 ###                           JSON RPC Configuration                        ###
diff --git a/server/flags/flags.go b/server/flags/flags.go
index 02dc161342..c795013c15 100644
--- a/server/flags/flags.go
+++ b/server/flags/flags.go
@@ -76,10 +76,11 @@ const (
 
 // EVM flags
 const (
-	EVMTracer          = "evm.tracer"
-	EVMMaxTxGasWanted  = "evm.max-tx-gas-wanted"
-	EVMBlockExecutor   = "evm.block-executor"
-	EVMBlockSTMWorkers = "evm.block-stm-workers"
+	EVMTracer              = "evm.tracer"
+	EVMMaxTxGasWanted      = "evm.max-tx-gas-wanted"
+	EVMBlockExecutor       = "evm.block-executor"
+	EVMBlockSTMWorkers     = "evm.block-stm-workers"
+	EVMBlockSTMPreEstimate = "evm.block-stm-pre-estimate"
 )
 
 // TLS flags