diff --git a/packages/core/useFetch/index.test.ts b/packages/core/useFetch/index.test.ts
index 920b8b6f5fb..cc05a41abff 100644
--- a/packages/core/useFetch/index.test.ts
+++ b/packages/core/useFetch/index.test.ts
@@ -127,20 +127,25 @@ describe('useFetch', () => {
   })
 
   test('should create an instance of useFetch with baseUrls', async () => {
+    const baseUrl = 'https://example.com'
+    const targetUrl = `${baseUrl}/test`
     const fetchHeaders = { Authorization: 'test' }
     const requestHeaders = { 'Accept-Language': 'en-US' }
     const allHeaders = { ...fetchHeaders, ...requestHeaders }
-    const useMyFetchWithBaseUrl = createFetch({ baseUrl: 'https://example.com', fetchOptions: { headers: fetchHeaders } })
+    const requestOptions = { headers: requestHeaders }
+    const useMyFetchWithBaseUrl = createFetch({ baseUrl, fetchOptions: { headers: fetchHeaders } })
     const useMyFetchWithoutBaseUrl = createFetch({ fetchOptions: { headers: fetchHeaders } })
-    useMyFetchWithBaseUrl('test', { headers: requestHeaders })
-    useMyFetchWithBaseUrl('/test', { headers: requestHeaders })
-    useMyFetchWithoutBaseUrl('https://example.com/test', { headers: requestHeaders })
+
+    useMyFetchWithBaseUrl('test', requestOptions)
+    useMyFetchWithBaseUrl('/test', requestOptions)
+    useMyFetchWithBaseUrl(targetUrl, requestOptions)
+    useMyFetchWithoutBaseUrl(targetUrl, requestOptions)
 
     await retry(() => {
-      expect(fetchSpy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(3)
-      expect(fetchSpy).toHaveBeenNthCalledWith(1, 'https://example.com/test', expect.anything())
-      expect(fetchSpy).toHaveBeenNthCalledWith(2, 'https://example.com/test', expect.anything())
-      expect(fetchSpy).toHaveBeenNthCalledWith(3, 'https://example.com/test', expect.anything())
+      expect(fetchSpy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(4)
+      new Array(4).fill(0).forEach((x, i) => {
+        expect(fetchSpy).toHaveBeenNthCalledWith(i + 1, 'https://example.com/test', expect.anything())
+      })
       expect(fetchSpyHeaders()).toMatchObject(allHeaders)
     })
   })
diff --git a/packages/core/useFetch/index.ts b/packages/core/useFetch/index.ts
index 5cabeef2fbb..c5d864c920c 100644
--- a/packages/core/useFetch/index.ts
+++ b/packages/core/useFetch/index.ts
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ export interface UseFetchOptions {
 
 export interface CreateFetchOptions {
   /**
-   * The base URL that will be prefixed to all urls
+   * The base URL that will be prefixed to all urls unless urls are absolute
    */
   baseUrl?: MaybeComputedRef<string>
 
@@ -215,6 +215,11 @@ function isFetchOptions(obj: object): obj is UseFetchOptions {
   return containsProp(obj, 'immediate', 'refetch', 'initialData', 'timeout', 'beforeFetch', 'afterFetch', 'onFetchError', 'fetch')
 }
 
+// A URL is considered absolute if it begins with "<scheme>://" or "//" (protocol-relative URL).
+function isAbsoluteURL(url: string) {
+  return /^([a-z][a-z\d+\-.]*:)?\/\//i.test(url)
+}
+
 function headersToObject(headers: HeadersInit | undefined) {
   if (typeof Headers !== 'undefined' && headers instanceof Headers)
     return Object.fromEntries([...headers.entries()])
@@ -249,10 +254,14 @@ export function createFetch(config: CreateFetchOptions = {}) {
   const _fetchOptions = config.fetchOptions || {}
 
   function useFactoryFetch(url: MaybeComputedRef<string>, ...args: any[]) {
-    const computedUrl = computed(() => config.baseUrl
-      ? joinPaths(resolveUnref(config.baseUrl), resolveUnref(url))
-      : resolveUnref(url),
-    )
+    const computedUrl = computed(() => {
+      const baseUrl = resolveUnref(config.baseUrl)
+      const targetUrl = resolveUnref(url)
+
+      return baseUrl && !isAbsoluteURL(targetUrl)
+        ? joinPaths(baseUrl, targetUrl)
+        : targetUrl
+    })
 
     let options = _options
     let fetchOptions = _fetchOptions