diff --git a/entc/gen/feature.go b/entc/gen/feature.go
index 0e47195ad6..97f154136a 100644
--- a/entc/gen/feature.go
+++ b/entc/gen/feature.go
@@ -159,6 +159,30 @@ var (
 		},
 	}
 
+	// FeatureNoClientSchema keeps the migration engine off the generated
+	// Client, so that a binary which never migrates does not link it.
+	//
+	// `Client.Schema` is a `*migrate.Schema`, and `NewClient` builds one. That
+	// is an import, and the linker follows imports: the generated package pulls
+	// in `dialect/sql/schema`, which pulls in Atlas -- its diff planner, all
+	// three of its SQL dialects, and the HCL parser those import for a schema
+	// language most programs never write. Measured on one app compiled to
+	// `GOOS=js GOARCH=wasm`, that was 10.5 MB of a 57 MB module, linked to
+	// answer a question the program does not ask.
+	//
+	// With this on, `Client` has no `Schema` field and the caller says it:
+	//
+	//	migrate.NewSchema(drv).Create(ctx)
+	//
+	// which needs the driver it already had to build the client. `migrate` is
+	// generated either way, so a program that does migrate is unaffected.
+	FeatureNoClientSchema = Feature{
+		Name:        "sql/no-client-schema",
+		Stage:       Experimental,
+		Default:     false,
+		Description: "Keeps the migration engine off the generated Client, so a binary that never migrates does not link it",
+	}
+
 	// AllFeatures holds a list of all feature-flags.
 	AllFeatures = []Feature{
 		FeaturePrivacy,
@@ -174,6 +198,7 @@ var (
 		FeatureUpsert,
 		FeatureVersionedMigration,
 		FeatureGlobalId,
+		FeatureNoClientSchema,
 	}
 	// allFeatures includes all public and private features.
 	allFeatures = append(AllFeatures, featureMultiSchema)
diff --git a/entc/gen/template/client.tmpl b/entc/gen/template/client.tmpl
index d1dc249db2..cc3dfb5983 100644
--- a/entc/gen/template/client.tmpl
+++ b/entc/gen/template/client.tmpl
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ in the LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
 // Client is the client that holds all ent builders.
 type Client struct {
 	config
-	{{- if $.SupportMigrate }}
+	{{- if and $.SupportMigrate (not ($.FeatureEnabled "sql/no-client-schema")) }}
 		// Schema is the client for creating, migrating and dropping schema.
 		Schema *migrate.Schema
 	{{- end }}
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ func NewClient(opts ...Option) *Client {
 }
 
 func (c *Client) init() {
-	{{- if $.SupportMigrate }}
+	{{- if and $.SupportMigrate (not ($.FeatureEnabled "sql/no-client-schema")) }}
 		c.Schema = migrate.NewSchema(c.driver)
 	{{- end }}
 	{{- range $n := $.Nodes }}
@@ -55,7 +55,9 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"log"
 
+	{{- if not ($.FeatureEnabled "sql/no-client-schema") }}
 	"{{ $.Config.Package }}/migrate"
+	{{- end }}
 	{{ range $n := $.Nodes }}
 		{{ $n.PackageAlias }} "{{ $n.Config.Package }}/{{ $n.PackageDir }}"
 	{{- end }}
diff --git a/entc/gen/template/enttest.tmpl b/entc/gen/template/enttest.tmpl
index fe25723282..59ac9a36f6 100644
--- a/entc/gen/template/enttest.tmpl
+++ b/entc/gen/template/enttest.tmpl
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ func NewClient(t TestingT, opts ...Option) *{{ $pkg }}.Client {
 			t.Error(err)
 			t.FailNow()
 		}
-		if err := migrate.Create(context.Background(), c.Schema, tables, o.migrateOpts...); err != nil {
+		if err := migrate.Create(context.Background(), {{ if $.FeatureEnabled "sql/no-client-schema" }}migrate.NewSchema(c.Driver()){{ else }}c.Schema{{ end }}, tables, o.migrateOpts...); err != nil {
 			t.Error(err)
 			t.FailNow()
 		}