diff --git a/flaml/automl.py b/flaml/automl.py
index eb084c1e3..91eaf2215 100644
--- a/flaml/automl.py
+++ b/flaml/automl.py
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 # !
-#  * Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
+#  * Copyright (c) FLAML authors. All rights reserved.
 #  * Licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE file in the
 #  * project root for license information.
 import time
 import os
-from typing import Callable, Optional
+from typing import Callable, Optional, List, Union
 from functools import partial
 import numpy as np
 from scipy.sparse import issparse
@@ -20,10 +20,7 @@ from sklearn.utils import shuffle
 from sklearn.base import BaseEstimator
 import pandas as pd
 import logging
-from typing import List, Union
-from pandas import DataFrame
-from .data import _is_nlp_task
-
+import json
 from .ml import (
     compute_estimator,
     train_estimator,
@@ -40,8 +37,14 @@ from .config import (
     N_SPLITS,
     SAMPLE_MULTIPLY_FACTOR,
 )
-
-from .data import concat, CLASSIFICATION, TS_FORECAST, FORECAST, REGRESSION
+from .data import (
+    concat,
+    CLASSIFICATION,
+    TS_FORECAST,
+    FORECAST,
+    REGRESSION,
+    _is_nlp_task,
+)
 from . import tune
 from .training_log import training_log_reader, training_log_writer
 
@@ -678,6 +681,15 @@ class AutoML(BaseEstimator):
             self._search_states[self._best_estimator], "best_config_train_time", None
         )
 
+    def save_best_config(self, filename):
+        best = {
+            "class": self.best_estimator,
+            "hyperparameters": self.best_config,
+        }
+        os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(filename), exist_ok=True)
+        with open(filename, "w") as f:
+            json.dump(best, f)
+
     @property
     def classes_(self):
         """A list of n_classes elements for class labels."""
@@ -694,7 +706,9 @@ class AutoML(BaseEstimator):
         """Time taken to find best model in seconds."""
         return self.__dict__.get("_time_taken_best_iter")
 
-    def predict(self, X_test: Union[np.array, DataFrame, List[str], List[List[str]]]):
+    def predict(
+        self, X_test: Union[np.array, pd.DataFrame, List[str], List[List[str]]]
+    ):
         """Predict label from features.
 
         Args:
@@ -763,7 +777,7 @@ class AutoML(BaseEstimator):
             try:
                 if isinstance(X[0], List):
                     X = [x for x in zip(*X)]
-                X = DataFrame(
+                X = pd.DataFrame(
                     dict(
                         [
                             (self._transformer._str_columns[idx], X[idx])
diff --git a/test/automl/test_python_log.py b/test/automl/test_python_log.py
index 73581d539..c367600c1 100644
--- a/test/automl/test_python_log.py
+++ b/test/automl/test_python_log.py
@@ -119,3 +119,4 @@ class TestLogging(unittest.TestCase):
         pred2 = automl.predict(X_train)
         delta = pred1 - pred2
         assert max(delta) == 0 and min(delta) == 0
+        automl.save_best_config("test/housing.json")