diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 8f06075a1..d605589a9 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -434,7 +434,9 @@ dependencies = [
  "anstream",
  "anstyle",
  "clap_lex",
+ "once_cell",
  "strsim",
+ "terminal_size",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -2033,6 +2035,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "winapi-util",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "terminal_size"
+version = "0.2.6"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "8e6bf6f19e9f8ed8d4048dc22981458ebcf406d67e94cd422e5ecd73d63b3237"
+dependencies = [
+ "rustix 0.37.25",
+ "windows-sys 0.48.0",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "test_infra"
 version = "0.1.0"
@@ -2316,7 +2328,7 @@ dependencies = [
 name = "vhost_user_net"
 version = "0.1.0"
 dependencies = [
- "argh",
+ "clap",
  "env_logger",
  "epoll",
  "libc",
diff --git a/vhost_user_net/Cargo.toml b/vhost_user_net/Cargo.toml
index 49c97fedd..74f067ec7 100644
--- a/vhost_user_net/Cargo.toml
+++ b/vhost_user_net/Cargo.toml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ edition = "2021"
 build = "../build.rs"
 
 [dependencies]
-argh = "0.1.9"
+clap = { version = "4.3.11", features = ["wrap_help","cargo"] }
 env_logger = "0.10.0"
 epoll = "4.3.3"
 libc = "0.2.147"
diff --git a/vhost_user_net/src/main.rs b/vhost_user_net/src/main.rs
index 7e67e40bd..f9dc813e4 100644
--- a/vhost_user_net/src/main.rs
+++ b/vhost_user_net/src/main.rs
@@ -6,36 +6,25 @@
 //
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 AND BSD-3-Clause)
 
-use argh::FromArgs;
+use clap::{Arg, Command};
 use vhost_user_net::start_net_backend;
 
-#[derive(FromArgs)]
-/// Launch a vhost-user-net backend.
-struct TopLevel {
-    #[argh(option, long = "net-backend")]
-    /// vhost-user-net backend parameters
-    /// ip=<ip_addr>,mask=<net_mask>,socket=<socket_path>,client=on|off,num_queues=<number_of_queues>,queue_size=<size_of_each_queue>,tap=<if_name>
-    backend_command: Option<String>,
-
-    #[argh(switch, short = 'V', long = "version")]
-    /// print version information
-    version: bool,
-}
-
 fn main() {
     env_logger::init();
 
-    let toplevel: TopLevel = argh::from_env();
+    let cmd_arguments = Command::new("vhost-user-net backend")
+        .version(env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION"))
+        .author(env!("CARGO_PKG_AUTHORS"))
+        .about("Launch a vhost-user-net backend.")
+        .arg(
+            Arg::new("net-backend")
+                .long("net-backend")
+                .help(vhost_user_net::SYNTAX)
+                .num_args(1)
+                .required(true),
+        )
+        .get_matches();
 
-    if toplevel.version {
-        println!("{} {}", env!("CARGO_BIN_NAME"), env!("BUILD_VERSION"));
-        return;
-    }
-
-    if toplevel.backend_command.is_none() {
-        println!("Please specify --net-backend");
-        std::process::exit(1)
-    }
-
-    start_net_backend(&toplevel.backend_command.unwrap());
+    let backend_command = cmd_arguments.get_one::<String>("net-backend").unwrap();
+    start_net_backend(backend_command);
 }