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Prisma

TypeScript ORM with a schema-first workflow. Prisma Client gives full type safety; Prisma Migrate handles migrations. Prisma ORM 8 covers Postgres, MongoDB, and SQLite; MySQL still needs Prisma ORM 7.

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Prisma is the most widely used TypeScript ORM. You define your schema in a single .prisma file, run prisma generate, and get a fully typed client. Prisma Migrate creates SQL migrations from schema diffs. The query API is ergonomic and the type inference is excellent. Prisma ORM 8 ships one library per database and runs on your existing Prisma 7 schema: PostgreSQL is a release candidate, MongoDB is in early access, and SQLite is experimental, while MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, and CockroachDB still need Prisma ORM 7. Trade-offs: the runtime is heavier than Drizzle, cold starts on serverless were historically slow, and raw SQL escapes the abstraction. Still the default for many TypeScript backends.

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Prisma at a glance

Last verified October 17, 2026

Pricing: Prisma ORM - free and open source (Apache-2.0)
Free - $0/mo: 200k Prisma Postgres operations, 2 GB storage, 50 databases, 1M Prisma Compute requests
Starter - $10/mo: 1M operations then $8 per million, 10 GB storage then $2/GB, 5M Compute requests then $1 per million
Pro - $49/mo: 10M operations then $2 per million, 50 GB storage then $1.50/GB, 20M Compute requests
Business - $129/mo: 50M operations then $1 per million, 100 GB storage, 100M Compute requests, HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001
Custom pricing for high-volume teams - contact sales
Install: npm create prisma@latest -- my-app
npm install @prisma/orm-postgres
npm install --save-dev prisma@7
Models: Prisma ORM 8 ships one library per database: PostgreSQL (release candidate), MongoDB (early access), and SQLite (experimental). MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, and CockroachDB still need Prisma ORM 7. Any host that gives you a standard connection string works, including Prisma Postgres, Supabase, Neon, and MongoDB Atlas.
Recent changes: Oct 2Prisma ORM 8 runs on your existing Prisma 7 schema, the Prisma MCP server works with Prisma Compute, and coding agents can set up Prisma with approval controls.
Aug 28Prisma Compute is generally available, with Deploy Buttons and an apps directory. Prisma 8 becomes the version installed by prisma@latest.
Aug 2Prisma 8 lets you write expression, partial, and unique indexes in schema and TypeScript, and Prisma ORM stops wrapping single-statement writes in transactions.

Sources: Prisma pricing, Getting started, Release status, Supported databases, Prisma changelog, GitHub repository

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