diff --git a/velox/functions/prestosql/JsonFunctions.h b/velox/functions/prestosql/JsonFunctions.h
index 7c6f1421477c5..753ee442140ae 100644
--- a/velox/functions/prestosql/JsonFunctions.h
+++ b/velox/functions/prestosql/JsonFunctions.h
@@ -31,33 +31,6 @@ struct IsJsonScalarFunction {
   }
 };
 
-// jsonExtractScalar(json, json_path) -> varchar
-// Current implementation support UTF-8 in json, but not in json_path.
-// Like jsonExtract(), but returns the result value as a string (as opposed
-// to being encoded as JSON). The value referenced by json_path must be a scalar
-// (boolean, number or string)
-template <typename T>
-struct JsonExtractScalarFunction {
-  VELOX_DEFINE_FUNCTION_TYPES(T);
-
-  FOLLY_ALWAYS_INLINE bool call(
-      out_type<Varchar>& result,
-      const arg_type<Json>& json,
-      const arg_type<Varchar>& jsonPath) {
-    const folly::StringPiece& jsonStringPiece = json;
-    const folly::StringPiece& jsonPathStringPiece = jsonPath;
-    auto extractResult =
-        jsonExtractScalar(jsonStringPiece, jsonPathStringPiece);
-    if (extractResult.hasValue()) {
-      UDFOutputString::assign(result, *extractResult);
-      return true;
-
-    } else {
-      return false;
-    }
-  }
-};
-
 template <typename T>
 struct JsonExtractFunction {
   VELOX_DEFINE_FUNCTION_TYPES(T);
diff --git a/velox/functions/prestosql/benchmarks/JsonExprBenchmark.cpp b/velox/functions/prestosql/benchmarks/JsonExprBenchmark.cpp
index 3c18a0797d0a5..1a3fda4c95271 100644
--- a/velox/functions/prestosql/benchmarks/JsonExprBenchmark.cpp
+++ b/velox/functions/prestosql/benchmarks/JsonExprBenchmark.cpp
@@ -47,8 +47,6 @@ class JsonBenchmark : public velox::functions::test::FunctionBenchmarkBase {
         {"folly_json_array_length"});
     registerFunction<SIMDJsonArrayLengthFunction, int64_t, Json>(
         {"simd_json_array_length"});
-    registerFunction<JsonExtractScalarFunction, Varchar, Json, Varchar>(
-        {"folly_json_extract_scalar"});
     registerFunction<SIMDJsonExtractScalarFunction, Varchar, Json, Varchar>(
         {"simd_json_extract_scalar"});
     registerFunction<JsonExtractFunction, Varchar, Json, Varchar>(
@@ -193,15 +191,6 @@ void SIMDJsonArrayLength(int iter, int vectorSize, int jsonSize) {
   benchmark.runWithJson(iter, vectorSize, "simd_json_array_length", json);
 }
 
-void FollyJsonExtractScalar(int iter, int vectorSize, int jsonSize) {
-  folly::BenchmarkSuspender suspender;
-  JsonBenchmark benchmark;
-  auto json = benchmark.prepareData(jsonSize);
-  suspender.dismiss();
-  benchmark.runWithJsonExtract(
-      iter, vectorSize, "folly_json_extract_scalar", json, "$.key[7].k1");
-}
-
 void SIMDJsonExtractScalar(int iter, int vectorSize, int jsonSize) {
   folly::BenchmarkSuspender suspender;
   JsonBenchmark benchmark;