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Prisma Postgres

Prisma Postgres

The future of serverless databases

Website prisma.io
Overview

What it is

Ship production apps at lighting speed, and scale to a global audience effortlessly with our next generation serverless database and world-class ORM.

Intent

I need it when

Manage databases and explore data directly within the IDE or development workflow

Prisma Studio and the MCP Server enable developers to create, manage, browse, filter, and edit database data directly in their IDE or AI-powered workflows. This eliminates the need for separate database management tools and improves developer experience.

Ship a full-stack application quickly without managing database infrastructure

Prisma Postgres provides serverless PostgreSQL with zero configuration, automatic backups, and observability built-in. Combined with Prisma ORM's type-safe queries and automated migrations, developers can deploy production-ready databases in seconds and focus on application logic rather than database operations.

Scale database performance and reduce latency for globally distributed applications

Prisma Accelerate (included in paid plans) provides query caching, connection pooling, and edge-compatible drivers. This reduces database round-trip latency and improves performance for landing pages and high-traffic applications without manual optimization.

Build type-safe backend APIs with end-to-end TypeScript and avoid manual SQL and CRUD operations

Prisma ORM (included with Postgres) offers auto-completion, type safety, and automatic schema generation from the Prisma schema file. Developers never write raw CRUD operations; the ORM generates them automatically, reducing errors and development time.

Migrate from legacy databases or other ORMs with minimal downtime and risk

Prisma's introspection feature automatically generates schema from existing databases, and Prisma Migrate handles schema changes with zero-downtime deployments. Users can switch between database providers by updating a few references in the schema, as demonstrated by production migrations at scale.

Drop

Not a fit when

  • User requires a traditional self-managed PostgreSQL database without managed infrastructure or automatic scaling
  • Application needs to use non-PostgreSQL databases exclusively (Prisma Postgres is PostgreSQL-only; Prisma ORM supports MySQL, SQLite, SQL Server but Postgres product does not)
  • User requires on-premises or air-gapped deployment with no cloud connectivity
  • Project has extremely low database operation volume and cannot justify any monthly subscription cost
  • Organization requires a database provider with existing long-term contracts or vendor lock-in to a specific cloud provider
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Pricing

USD0 - USD129 / monthly View pricing