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title: "Self-Hosting"
description: "Embed Better Auth Studio inside your own framework application."
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# Self-Hosting
URL: /docs/self-hosting
LLM index: /llms.txt
Description: Embed Better Auth Studio inside your own framework application.

# Self-Hosting

Better Auth Studio supports two deployment models. The **standalone CLI** runs as a separate process alongside your app — useful during development and for teams who want an isolated admin tool. The **embedded** model mounts the studio directly inside your application as a set of API routes, so the studio lives at a path like `/api/studio` in your own domain.

This section covers the embedded model. If you just want to run the CLI, the [Quickstart](/docs/quickstart) is all you need.

## Supported frameworks

The studio ships framework-specific handlers for:

- Next.js

## General setup

Regardless of framework, the steps are the same:

1. Install `better-auth-studio` as a dependency (not just dev dependency, since it runs at request time).
2. Run `better-auth-studio init` to scaffold `studio.config.ts` and the route file.
3. Fill in the `auth` and `basePath` options in `studio.config.ts`.
4. Set the required environment variables: `BETTER_AUTH_SECRET`, `BETTER_AUTH_URL`, and `STUDIO_SECRET`.
5. Start your application and navigate to the `basePath` you configured.

See [Self-Hosting Overview](/docs/self-hosting/overview) for a detailed walkthrough including Docker-based deployment.

## Sitemap

See the full [sitemap](/sitemap.md) for all pages.
Docs-scoped sitemap: [/docs/sitemap.md](/docs/sitemap.md).
Well-known sitemap: [/.well-known/sitemap.md](/.well-known/sitemap.md).