Objective To analyzed the correlation of both serum and urine α1-antitrypsin (α1-AT) with acute kidney injury (AKI) and their early predictive values in sepsis patients. Methods A total of 90 sepsis patients in our hospital were selected from september 2017 to October 2019 and divided into AKI group with 28 AKI patients and non-AKI group with 62 patients without AKI. Serum and urine α1-AT levels were continuously determined for 7days. The predict or diagnosis of serum and urine α1-AT levels at the day when patients had been diagnosed as AKI or 48h and 24 h before that were analyzed by receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. Results ① The serum α1-AT levels in AKI group at the day when patients had been diagnosed as AKI or 48 h and 24 h before that were all lower than those levels in non-AKI group (P < 0.05); while the urine α1-AT levels in AKI group were all higher than those levels in non-AKI group (P < 0.05). ② The predictive value of urine α1-AT 48 h and 24 h before AKI diagnosis were higher than serum α1-AT (P < 0.05). ③ Multivariate Logistic regression analysis results showed that urine α1-AT was the independent factor of AKI [Ol ^ R = 1.81 (95% CI: 1.23, 2.97), P = 0.001). Conclusion Serum α1-AT level in sepsis-AKI patients increased, but urine α1-AT level declines, which may be the early predictive or diagnostic factors of AKI. And the urine α1-AT may be the independent risk factor for AKI.