diff --git a/modules/dnn/src/onnx/onnx_graph_simplifier.cpp b/modules/dnn/src/onnx/onnx_graph_simplifier.cpp
index c6e54d6a92..091d2d4ae9 100644
--- a/modules/dnn/src/onnx/onnx_graph_simplifier.cpp
+++ b/modules/dnn/src/onnx/onnx_graph_simplifier.cpp
@@ -531,6 +531,35 @@ public:
     }
 };
 
+// softplus(x) = log(exp(x) + 1)
+class SoftplusSubgraph: public Subgraph
+{
+public:
+    SoftplusSubgraph()
+    {
+        int input = addNodeToMatch("");
+        int exp = addNodeToMatch("Exp", input);
+        int addVal = addNodeToMatch("");
+        int add = addNodeToMatch("Add", addVal, exp);
+        addNodeToMatch("Log", add);
+        setFusedNode("Softplus", input);
+    }
+};
+
+class SoftplusSubgraph2: public Subgraph
+{
+public:
+    SoftplusSubgraph2()
+    {
+        int input = addNodeToMatch("");
+        int exp = addNodeToMatch("Exp", input);
+        int addVal = addNodeToMatch("");
+        int add = addNodeToMatch("Add", exp, addVal);
+        addNodeToMatch("Log", add);
+        setFusedNode("Softplus", input);
+    }
+};
+
 class MulCastSubgraph : public Subgraph
 {
 public:
@@ -734,6 +763,8 @@ void simplifySubgraphs(opencv_onnx::GraphProto& net)
     subgraphs.push_back(makePtr<BatchNormalizationSubgraph1>());
     subgraphs.push_back(makePtr<BatchNormalizationSubgraph2>());
     subgraphs.push_back(makePtr<ExpandSubgraph>());
+    subgraphs.push_back(makePtr<SoftplusSubgraph>());
+    subgraphs.push_back(makePtr<SoftplusSubgraph2>());
     subgraphs.push_back(makePtr<MishSubgraph>());
     subgraphs.push_back(makePtr<NormalizeSubgraph4>());
     subgraphs.push_back(makePtr<NormalizeSubgraph5>());
diff --git a/modules/dnn/test/test_onnx_importer.cpp b/modules/dnn/test/test_onnx_importer.cpp
index 702a69da2a..9b231521c4 100644
--- a/modules/dnn/test/test_onnx_importer.cpp
+++ b/modules/dnn/test/test_onnx_importer.cpp
@@ -1325,6 +1325,7 @@ TEST_P(Test_ONNX_layers, ResizeOpset11_Torch1_6)
 TEST_P(Test_ONNX_layers, Mish)
 {
     testONNXModels("mish");
+    testONNXModels("mish_no_softplus");
 }
 
 TEST_P(Test_ONNX_layers, CalculatePads)