diff --git a/changelog/17308.txt b/changelog/17308.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5a2bf8bac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/17308.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+```release-note:improvement:
+cli: User-requested -help text now appears on stdout for paging rather than stderr
+```
diff --git a/command/main.go b/command/main.go
index 4a5e80282..1ac728750 100644
--- a/command/main.go
+++ b/command/main.go
@@ -228,7 +228,8 @@ func RunCustom(args []string, runOpts *RunOptions) int {
 		HelpFunc: groupedHelpFunc(
 			cli.BasicHelpFunc("vault"),
 		),
-		HelpWriter:                 runOpts.Stderr,
+		HelpWriter:                 runOpts.Stdout,
+		ErrorWriter:                runOpts.Stderr,
 		HiddenCommands:             hiddenCommands,
 		Autocomplete:               true,
 		AutocompleteNoDefaultFlags: true,