diff --git a/.changeset/clever-geese-clap.md b/.changeset/clever-geese-clap.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..95b7560d65
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/clever-geese-clap.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"create-t3-app": patch
+---
+
+fix: non planetscale env.js refers to YOUR_MYSQL_URL_HERE
diff --git a/cli/src/installers/envVars.ts b/cli/src/installers/envVars.ts
index d85afc73eb..e27e4c5f4f 100644
--- a/cli/src/installers/envVars.ts
+++ b/cli/src/installers/envVars.ts
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ export const envVariablesInstaller: Installer = ({
   const usingDrizzle = packages?.drizzle.inUse;
 
   const usingDb = usingPrisma || usingDrizzle;
+  const usingPlanetScale = databaseProvider === "planetscale";
 
   const envContent = getEnvContent(
     !!usingAuth,
@@ -25,9 +26,17 @@ export const envVariablesInstaller: Installer = ({
   );
 
   let envFile = "";
-  if (usingAuth && usingDb) envFile = "with-auth-db.js";
-  else if (usingAuth) envFile = "with-auth.js";
-  else if (usingDb) envFile = "with-db.js";
+  if (usingDb) {
+    if (usingPlanetScale) {
+      if (usingAuth) envFile = "with-auth-db-planetscale.js";
+      else envFile = "with-db-planetscale.js";
+    } else {
+      if (usingAuth) envFile = "with-auth-db.js";
+      else envFile = "with-db.js";
+    }
+  } else {
+    if (usingAuth) envFile = "with-auth.js";
+  }
 
   if (envFile !== "") {
     const envSchemaSrc = path.join(
diff --git a/cli/template/extras/src/env/with-auth-db-planetscale.js b/cli/template/extras/src/env/with-auth-db-planetscale.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..35a053ec5b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cli/template/extras/src/env/with-auth-db-planetscale.js
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+import { createEnv } from "@t3-oss/env-nextjs";
+import { z } from "zod";
+
+export const env = createEnv({
+  /**
+   * Specify your server-side environment variables schema here. This way you can ensure the app
+   * isn't built with invalid env vars.
+   */
+  server: {
+    DATABASE_URL: z
+      .string()
+      .url()
+      .refine(
+        (str) => !str.includes("YOUR_MYSQL_URL_HERE"),
+        "You forgot to change the default URL"
+      ),
+    NODE_ENV: z
+      .enum(["development", "test", "production"])
+      .default("development"),
+    NEXTAUTH_SECRET:
+      process.env.NODE_ENV === "production"
+        ? z.string()
+        : z.string().optional(),
+    NEXTAUTH_URL: z.preprocess(
+      // This makes Vercel deployments not fail if you don't set NEXTAUTH_URL
+      // Since NextAuth.js automatically uses the VERCEL_URL if present.
+      (str) => process.env.VERCEL_URL ?? str,
+      // VERCEL_URL doesn't include `https` so it cant be validated as a URL
+      process.env.VERCEL ? z.string() : z.string().url()
+    ),
+    DISCORD_CLIENT_ID: z.string(),
+    DISCORD_CLIENT_SECRET: z.string(),
+  },
+
+  /**
+   * Specify your client-side environment variables schema here. This way you can ensure the app
+   * isn't built with invalid env vars. To expose them to the client, prefix them with
+   * `NEXT_PUBLIC_`.
+   */
+  client: {
+    // NEXT_PUBLIC_CLIENTVAR: z.string(),
+  },
+
+  /**
+   * You can't destruct `process.env` as a regular object in the Next.js edge runtimes (e.g.
+   * middlewares) or client-side so we need to destruct manually.
+   */
+  runtimeEnv: {
+    DATABASE_URL: process.env.DATABASE_URL,
+    NODE_ENV: process.env.NODE_ENV,
+    NEXTAUTH_SECRET: process.env.NEXTAUTH_SECRET,
+    NEXTAUTH_URL: process.env.NEXTAUTH_URL,
+    DISCORD_CLIENT_ID: process.env.DISCORD_CLIENT_ID,
+    DISCORD_CLIENT_SECRET: process.env.DISCORD_CLIENT_SECRET,
+  },
+  /**
+   * Run `build` or `dev` with `SKIP_ENV_VALIDATION` to skip env validation. This is especially
+   * useful for Docker builds.
+   */
+  skipValidation: !!process.env.SKIP_ENV_VALIDATION,
+  /**
+   * Makes it so that empty strings are treated as undefined. `SOME_VAR: z.string()` and
+   * `SOME_VAR=''` will throw an error.
+   */
+  emptyStringAsUndefined: true,
+});
diff --git a/cli/template/extras/src/env/with-auth-db.js b/cli/template/extras/src/env/with-auth-db.js
index 35a053ec5b..2467d22d0f 100644
--- a/cli/template/extras/src/env/with-auth-db.js
+++ b/cli/template/extras/src/env/with-auth-db.js
@@ -7,13 +7,7 @@ export const env = createEnv({
    * isn't built with invalid env vars.
    */
   server: {
-    DATABASE_URL: z
-      .string()
-      .url()
-      .refine(
-        (str) => !str.includes("YOUR_MYSQL_URL_HERE"),
-        "You forgot to change the default URL"
-      ),
+    DATABASE_URL: z.string().url(),
     NODE_ENV: z
       .enum(["development", "test", "production"])
       .default("development"),
diff --git a/cli/template/extras/src/env/with-db-planetscale.js b/cli/template/extras/src/env/with-db-planetscale.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f4fdfe8415
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cli/template/extras/src/env/with-db-planetscale.js
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+import { createEnv } from "@t3-oss/env-nextjs";
+import { z } from "zod";
+
+export const env = createEnv({
+  /**
+   * Specify your server-side environment variables schema here. This way you can ensure the app
+   * isn't built with invalid env vars.
+   */
+  server: {
+    DATABASE_URL: z
+      .string()
+      .url()
+      .refine(
+        (str) => !str.includes("YOUR_MYSQL_URL_HERE"),
+        "You forgot to change the default URL"
+      ),
+    NODE_ENV: z
+      .enum(["development", "test", "production"])
+      .default("development"),
+  },
+
+  /**
+   * Specify your client-side environment variables schema here. This way you can ensure the app
+   * isn't built with invalid env vars. To expose them to the client, prefix them with
+   * `NEXT_PUBLIC_`.
+   */
+  client: {
+    // NEXT_PUBLIC_CLIENTVAR: z.string(),
+  },
+
+  /**
+   * You can't destruct `process.env` as a regular object in the Next.js edge runtimes (e.g.
+   * middlewares) or client-side so we need to destruct manually.
+   */
+  runtimeEnv: {
+    DATABASE_URL: process.env.DATABASE_URL,
+    NODE_ENV: process.env.NODE_ENV,
+    // NEXT_PUBLIC_CLIENTVAR: process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_CLIENTVAR,
+  },
+  /**
+   * Run `build` or `dev` with `SKIP_ENV_VALIDATION` to skip env validation. This is especially
+   * useful for Docker builds.
+   */
+  skipValidation: !!process.env.SKIP_ENV_VALIDATION,
+  /**
+   * Makes it so that empty strings are treated as undefined. `SOME_VAR: z.string()` and
+   * `SOME_VAR=''` will throw an error.
+   */
+  emptyStringAsUndefined: true,
+});
diff --git a/cli/template/extras/src/env/with-db.js b/cli/template/extras/src/env/with-db.js
index 1107bd0faa..6ca7f3e93a 100644
--- a/cli/template/extras/src/env/with-db.js
+++ b/cli/template/extras/src/env/with-db.js
@@ -7,13 +7,7 @@ export const env = createEnv({
    * isn't built with invalid env vars.
    */
   server: {
-    DATABASE_URL: z
-      .string()
-      .url()
-      .refine(
-        (str) => !str.includes("YOUR_MYSQL_URL_HERE"),
-        "You forgot to change the default URL"
-      ),
+    DATABASE_URL: z.string().url(),
     NODE_ENV: z
       .enum(["development", "test", "production"])
       .default("development"),
@@ -43,8 +37,8 @@ export const env = createEnv({
    */
   skipValidation: !!process.env.SKIP_ENV_VALIDATION,
   /**
-   * Makes it so that empty strings are treated as undefined.
-   * `SOME_VAR: z.string()` and `SOME_VAR=''` will throw an error.
+   * Makes it so that empty strings are treated as undefined. `SOME_VAR: z.string()` and
+   * `SOME_VAR=''` will throw an error.
    */
   emptyStringAsUndefined: true,
 });