An exhaust-gas turbocharger (1) having a turbine (2), which has a turbine wheel (3) surrounded by an intake duct (4), and having a VTG cartridge (5), which has a disk (6) and a vane bearing ring (7), which delimit the intake duct (4), and which has a plurality of vanes (8), which are arranged in the intake duct (4) and are mounted in the vane bearing ring (7) by way of rotatable vane shafts (9), which are connected to vane levers (10), the lever heads (11) of which engage into associated grooves (12) in a unison ring (13), which surrounds the vane bearing ring (7) on the outside, and which has an adjusting lever (14) which is operatively connected to an adjusting shaft (15) in order to transmit an adjusting torque to the unison ring (13). The adjusting lever (14) is of planar configuration.