diff --git a/src/redis-benchmark.c b/src/redis-benchmark.c
index ed53dcd33..ac2a313e8 100644
--- a/src/redis-benchmark.c
+++ b/src/redis-benchmark.c
@@ -1613,7 +1613,10 @@ usage:
 " -s <socket>        Server socket (overrides host and port)\n"
 " -a <password>      Password for Redis Auth\n"
 " --user <username>  Used to send ACL style 'AUTH username pass'. Needs -a.\n"
-" -u <uri>           Server URI.\n"
+" -u <uri>           Server URI on format redis://user:password@host:port/dbnum\n"
+"                    User, password and dbnum are optional. For authentication\n"
+"                    without a username, use username 'default'. For TLS, use\n"
+"                    the scheme 'rediss'.\n"
 " -c <clients>       Number of parallel connections (default 50).\n"
 "                    Note: If --cluster is used then number of clients has to be\n"
 "                    the same or higher than the number of nodes.\n"
diff --git a/src/redis-cli.c b/src/redis-cli.c
index 0177effa2..b1b651ea6 100644
--- a/src/redis-cli.c
+++ b/src/redis-cli.c
@@ -3028,7 +3028,10 @@ static void usage(int err) {
 "  --askpass          Force user to input password with mask from STDIN.\n"
 "                     If this argument is used, '-a' and " REDIS_CLI_AUTH_ENV "\n"
 "                     environment variable will be ignored.\n"
-"  -u <uri>           Server URI.\n"
+"  -u <uri>           Server URI on format redis://user:password@host:port/dbnum\n"
+"                     User, password and dbnum are optional. For authentication\n"
+"                     without a username, use username 'default'. For TLS, use\n"
+"                     the scheme 'rediss'.\n"
 "  -r <repeat>        Execute specified command N times.\n"
 "  -i <interval>      When -r is used, waits <interval> seconds per command.\n"
 "                     It is possible to specify sub-second times like -i 0.1.\n"
@@ -3113,6 +3116,7 @@ version,tls_usage);
 "  Use --cluster help to list all available cluster manager commands.\n"
 "\n"
 "Examples:\n"
+"  redis-cli -u redis://default:PASSWORD@localhost:6379/0\n"
 "  cat /etc/passwd | redis-cli -x set mypasswd\n"
 "  redis-cli -D \"\" --raw dump key > key.dump && redis-cli -X dump_tag restore key2 0 dump_tag replace < key.dump\n"
 "  redis-cli -r 100 lpush mylist x\n"