Prisma ORM

Next-generation Node.js and TypeScript ORM

Prisma ORM elevates developer experience with intuitive data modeling, automated migrations, and type-safety.

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Why Prisma ORM

Delightful DB workflows

Database workflows can feel brittle and error-prone. Prisma ORM increases productivity and confidence when working with databases and makes workflows like data modeling, migrations and querying easy.

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Works with your favorite databases and frameworks

Prisma's compatibility with popular tools ensures no stack lock-in, lower integration costs, and smooth transitions.

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Prisma Benchmarks

Prisma vs other ORMs

A meaningful comparison of database query latencies across database providers and ORM libraries in the Node.js & TypeScript ecosystem.

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Prisma Client

Type-safe database client

Prisma Client is a query builder that’s tailored to your schema. We designed its API to be intuitive, both for SQL veterans and developers brand new to databases. The auto-completion helps you figure out your query without the need for documentation.

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Extra ergonomy in VS Code

Extra ergonomy in VS Code

Auto-completion, linting, formatting and more help Prisma developers in VSCode stay confident and productive.

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Make fewer errors with TypeScript

Make fewer errors with TypeScript

Prisma ORM provides the strongest type-safety guarantees of all the ORMs in the TypeScript ecosystem.

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Integrate Prisma into your development ecosystem and focus on your team’s core competencies

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We adopted Prisma conventions as our standard and it saves lots of time having from reinventing things ourselves.
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Yuval Hazaz
CEO
Amplication
Thanks to Prisma, we can seamlessly scale our applications, without concerns about data layer performance.
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Matti Nannt
Co-founder
Formbricks
Underrated: Prisma 🐐
Entire SaaS businesses have been built on top of the Prisma ecosystem— including OSS ones like Dub.co. Have been loving the recent performance improvements as well 🔥
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Steven Tey
Founder
Dub.co
With Prisma, we migrated a core production system from MySQL to SQL Server with zero downtime, simply by swapping a few references and updating our schema. I can't imagine building systems without it; it's instrumental to major projects at Lush.
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Niko Guerra
Senior Backend Engineering Manager
Lush
Prisma helps us unify data access from multiple enterprise systems into a single API. It means we can move very quickly whilst staying flexible.
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Tom Hutchinson
Head of Mobile
Rapha
Prisma Postgres has really good DX. It's easy, simple, straightforward. I don't spend time on deployment. It just works.
Profile photo of Martin Adams
Martin Adams
Founder
Fluidwave
Prisma has a low learning curve. Productivity becomes higher because it gets combined with end-to-end type-safety using TypeScript.
Profile photo of Ricardo Almeida
Ricardo Almeida
Software Engineer
Grover
I have been using Prisma since day one, and it has become my number one choice for ORM. It's the default in @supastarter, and even though things like Drizzle might be more lightweight, the DX of Prisma is just unbeaten.
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Jonathan Wilke
Frontend Dev
Juniqe
It's the kind of DX that lets me get stuff done in between my daughter's naps.
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Nicolás Torres
Fullstack Engineer
Backbase
Prisma Accelerate handled 670,000+ webhooks from Shopify when the orders webhook from 2022/23 was fired, which cost us about $11. Not bad for accidentally being DDoS'd to a Heroku Postgres instance with zero downtime, and all the entries made it through.
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Harshdeep Singh Hura
Shopify App Developer and Consultant
@kinngh
Prisma spares me the hassle of keeping my database in sync, allowing me to develop my product with complete confidence.
Profile photo of Dries Augustyns
Dries Augustyns
Founder
Plunk
I like how the Prisma docs made it easy to jump straight into using it without needing to do a huge amount of reading, and I instantly felt the benefits.
Profile photo of Daniel Cranney
Daniel Cranney
Developer Advocate
WeAreDevelopers
Huge fan of Prisma! The Schema file is great for Cursor. You literally never have to write a CRUD operation again.
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Experimenting with LLM powered apps
Jake Colling
I've been building the backend on @stockleapp, with Prisma since the beginning, and I've got to say, it has worked like a charm
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Joonatan
Building
Stockle App
I keep switching from Prisma to whatever the latest flavor is, but always end up coming back to Prisma.
Profile photo of Ian Hunter
Ian Hunter
Pushing electrons
OpenSeas
Accelerate is a perfect fit for landing pages. We take advantage of caching to speed up queries and reduce latency, making them lightning-fast. This means we have a faster landing page, leading to better conversion.
Profile photo of Blake Carroll
Blake Carroll
CTO
Solin
I love how Prisma makes my life as a developer so easy. The TypeScript autocompletion is the best I've used, having tried many different ORMs. The migrations are a breeze. And I love how easy it is to get a full view of your database from the Prisma schema file. It's all in one place in readable format.
Profile photo of Elie Steinbock
Elie Steinbock
Founder
Inbox Zero
I love the Prisma typing system! Stack Auth relies heavily on it.
Profile photo of Zai Chi
Zai Chi
Co-founder
Stack Auth
Prisma enabled me to easily manage authentication as well as users' paid status. Prisma Accelerate was a huge boost to my productivity, cutting latency issues I was encountering with Vercel SQL.
Profile photo of Cody Bontecou
Cody Bontecou
Founder
i18nlocale
What I love most about Postiz is Prisma. It lets me switch between SQL databases effortlessly. I've used other ORMs before such as Eloquent (Laravel), but nothing matches Prisma's typing and features!
Profile photo of Nevo David
Nevo David
Founder
Postiz
Prisma's typesafe SQL is a great feature. It fills a great abstraction gap that existed prior to this. Earlier, I would have to fall back straight to pgtyped.
Profile photo of Harshal Patil
Harshal Patil
Staff Engineer
Meister
Imagine never typing out a migration again. Yeah, that's basically what Prisma does for you. Has saved me literal hours of time, and can for you too.
Profile photo of Chris Lis
Chris Lis
Dev Educator
ChrisCourses
Prisma has been instrumental in building ReUI, by providing a fully abstracted database layer. It accelerated our development speed several times over, letting us focus on business logic with a beautiful API and top-notch transaction support.
Profile photo of Shuhrat Saipov
Shuhrat Saipov
Co-founder
ReUI
For myBeat, we migrated our legacy codebase to Prisma very easily using Prisma ORM's introspection feature as we were moving from CakePHP to Node.js.
Profile photo of Jim Hendriks
Jim Hendriks
Tech Lead
myBeat
We adopted Prisma conventions as our standard and it saves lots of time having from reinventing things ourselves.
Profile photo of Yuval Hazaz
Yuval Hazaz
CEO
Amplication
Thanks to Prisma, we can seamlessly scale our applications, without concerns about data layer performance.
Profile photo of Matti Nannt
Matti Nannt
Co-founder
Formbricks
Underrated: Prisma 🐐
Entire SaaS businesses have been built on top of the Prisma ecosystem— including OSS ones like Dub.co. Have been loving the recent performance improvements as well 🔥
Profile photo of Steven Tey
Steven Tey
Founder
Dub.co
With Prisma, we migrated a core production system from MySQL to SQL Server with zero downtime, simply by swapping a few references and updating our schema. I can't imagine building systems without it; it's instrumental to major projects at Lush.
Profile photo of Niko Guerra
Niko Guerra
Senior Backend Engineering Manager
Lush
Prisma helps us unify data access from multiple enterprise systems into a single API. It means we can move very quickly whilst staying flexible.
Profile photo of Tom Hutchinson
Tom Hutchinson
Head of Mobile
Rapha
Prisma Postgres has really good DX. It's easy, simple, straightforward. I don't spend time on deployment. It just works.
Profile photo of Martin Adams
Martin Adams
Founder
Fluidwave
Prisma has a low learning curve. Productivity becomes higher because it gets combined with end-to-end type-safety using TypeScript.
Profile photo of Ricardo Almeida
Ricardo Almeida
Software Engineer
Grover
I have been using Prisma since day one, and it has become my number one choice for ORM. It's the default in @supastarter, and even though things like Drizzle might be more lightweight, the DX of Prisma is just unbeaten.
Profile photo of Jonathan Wilke
Jonathan Wilke
Frontend Dev
Juniqe
It's the kind of DX that lets me get stuff done in between my daughter's naps.
Profile photo of Nicolás Torres
Nicolás Torres
Fullstack Engineer
Backbase
Prisma Accelerate handled 670,000+ webhooks from Shopify when the orders webhook from 2022/23 was fired, which cost us about $11. Not bad for accidentally being DDoS'd to a Heroku Postgres instance with zero downtime, and all the entries made it through.
Profile photo of Harshdeep Singh Hura
Harshdeep Singh Hura
Shopify App Developer and Consultant
@kinngh
Prisma spares me the hassle of keeping my database in sync, allowing me to develop my product with complete confidence.
Profile photo of Dries Augustyns
Dries Augustyns
Founder
Plunk
I like how the Prisma docs made it easy to jump straight into using it without needing to do a huge amount of reading, and I instantly felt the benefits.
Profile photo of Daniel Cranney
Daniel Cranney
Developer Advocate
WeAreDevelopers
Huge fan of Prisma! The Schema file is great for Cursor. You literally never have to write a CRUD operation again.
Profile photo of
Experimenting with LLM powered apps
Jake Colling
I've been building the backend on @stockleapp, with Prisma since the beginning, and I've got to say, it has worked like a charm
Profile photo of Joonatan
Joonatan
Building
Stockle App
I keep switching from Prisma to whatever the latest flavor is, but always end up coming back to Prisma.
Profile photo of Ian Hunter
Ian Hunter
Pushing electrons
OpenSeas
Accelerate is a perfect fit for landing pages. We take advantage of caching to speed up queries and reduce latency, making them lightning-fast. This means we have a faster landing page, leading to better conversion.
Profile photo of Blake Carroll
Blake Carroll
CTO
Solin
I love how Prisma makes my life as a developer so easy. The TypeScript autocompletion is the best I've used, having tried many different ORMs. The migrations are a breeze. And I love how easy it is to get a full view of your database from the Prisma schema file. It's all in one place in readable format.
Profile photo of Elie Steinbock
Elie Steinbock
Founder
Inbox Zero
I love the Prisma typing system! Stack Auth relies heavily on it.
Profile photo of Zai Chi
Zai Chi
Co-founder
Stack Auth
Prisma enabled me to easily manage authentication as well as users' paid status. Prisma Accelerate was a huge boost to my productivity, cutting latency issues I was encountering with Vercel SQL.
Profile photo of Cody Bontecou
Cody Bontecou
Founder
i18nlocale
What I love most about Postiz is Prisma. It lets me switch between SQL databases effortlessly. I've used other ORMs before such as Eloquent (Laravel), but nothing matches Prisma's typing and features!
Profile photo of Nevo David
Nevo David
Founder
Postiz
Prisma's typesafe SQL is a great feature. It fills a great abstraction gap that existed prior to this. Earlier, I would have to fall back straight to pgtyped.
Profile photo of Harshal Patil
Harshal Patil
Staff Engineer
Meister
Imagine never typing out a migration again. Yeah, that's basically what Prisma does for you. Has saved me literal hours of time, and can for you too.
Profile photo of Chris Lis
Chris Lis
Dev Educator
ChrisCourses
Prisma has been instrumental in building ReUI, by providing a fully abstracted database layer. It accelerated our development speed several times over, letting us focus on business logic with a beautiful API and top-notch transaction support.
Profile photo of Shuhrat Saipov
Shuhrat Saipov
Co-founder
ReUI
For myBeat, we migrated our legacy codebase to Prisma very easily using Prisma ORM's introspection feature as we were moving from CakePHP to Node.js.
Profile photo of Jim Hendriks
Jim Hendriks
Tech Lead
myBeat
We adopted Prisma conventions as our standard and it saves lots of time having from reinventing things ourselves.
Profile photo of Yuval Hazaz
Yuval Hazaz
CEO
Amplication
Thanks to Prisma, we can seamlessly scale our applications, without concerns about data layer performance.
Profile photo of Matti Nannt
Matti Nannt
Co-founder
Formbricks
Underrated: Prisma 🐐
Entire SaaS businesses have been built on top of the Prisma ecosystem— including OSS ones like Dub.co. Have been loving the recent performance improvements as well 🔥
Profile photo of Steven Tey
Steven Tey
Founder
Dub.co
With Prisma, we migrated a core production system from MySQL to SQL Server with zero downtime, simply by swapping a few references and updating our schema. I can't imagine building systems without it; it's instrumental to major projects at Lush.
Profile photo of Niko Guerra
Niko Guerra
Senior Backend Engineering Manager
Lush
Prisma helps us unify data access from multiple enterprise systems into a single API. It means we can move very quickly whilst staying flexible.
Profile photo of Tom Hutchinson
Tom Hutchinson
Head of Mobile
Rapha
Prisma Postgres has really good DX. It's easy, simple, straightforward. I don't spend time on deployment. It just works.
Profile photo of Martin Adams
Martin Adams
Founder
Fluidwave
Prisma has a low learning curve. Productivity becomes higher because it gets combined with end-to-end type-safety using TypeScript.
Profile photo of Ricardo Almeida
Ricardo Almeida
Software Engineer
Grover
I have been using Prisma since day one, and it has become my number one choice for ORM. It's the default in @supastarter, and even though things like Drizzle might be more lightweight, the DX of Prisma is just unbeaten.
Profile photo of Jonathan Wilke
Jonathan Wilke
Frontend Dev
Juniqe
It's the kind of DX that lets me get stuff done in between my daughter's naps.
Profile photo of Nicolás Torres
Nicolás Torres
Fullstack Engineer
Backbase
Prisma Accelerate handled 670,000+ webhooks from Shopify when the orders webhook from 2022/23 was fired, which cost us about $11. Not bad for accidentally being DDoS'd to a Heroku Postgres instance with zero downtime, and all the entries made it through.
Profile photo of Harshdeep Singh Hura
Harshdeep Singh Hura
Shopify App Developer and Consultant
@kinngh
Prisma spares me the hassle of keeping my database in sync, allowing me to develop my product with complete confidence.
Profile photo of Dries Augustyns
Dries Augustyns
Founder
Plunk
I like how the Prisma docs made it easy to jump straight into using it without needing to do a huge amount of reading, and I instantly felt the benefits.
Profile photo of Daniel Cranney
Daniel Cranney
Developer Advocate
WeAreDevelopers
Huge fan of Prisma! The Schema file is great for Cursor. You literally never have to write a CRUD operation again.
Profile photo of
Experimenting with LLM powered apps
Jake Colling
I've been building the backend on @stockleapp, with Prisma since the beginning, and I've got to say, it has worked like a charm
Profile photo of Joonatan
Joonatan
Building
Stockle App
I keep switching from Prisma to whatever the latest flavor is, but always end up coming back to Prisma.
Profile photo of Ian Hunter
Ian Hunter
Pushing electrons
OpenSeas
Accelerate is a perfect fit for landing pages. We take advantage of caching to speed up queries and reduce latency, making them lightning-fast. This means we have a faster landing page, leading to better conversion.
Profile photo of Blake Carroll
Blake Carroll
CTO
Solin
I love how Prisma makes my life as a developer so easy. The TypeScript autocompletion is the best I've used, having tried many different ORMs. The migrations are a breeze. And I love how easy it is to get a full view of your database from the Prisma schema file. It's all in one place in readable format.
Profile photo of Elie Steinbock
Elie Steinbock
Founder
Inbox Zero
I love the Prisma typing system! Stack Auth relies heavily on it.
Profile photo of Zai Chi
Zai Chi
Co-founder
Stack Auth
Prisma enabled me to easily manage authentication as well as users' paid status. Prisma Accelerate was a huge boost to my productivity, cutting latency issues I was encountering with Vercel SQL.
Profile photo of Cody Bontecou
Cody Bontecou
Founder
i18nlocale
What I love most about Postiz is Prisma. It lets me switch between SQL databases effortlessly. I've used other ORMs before such as Eloquent (Laravel), but nothing matches Prisma's typing and features!
Profile photo of Nevo David
Nevo David
Founder
Postiz
Prisma's typesafe SQL is a great feature. It fills a great abstraction gap that existed prior to this. Earlier, I would have to fall back straight to pgtyped.
Profile photo of Harshal Patil
Harshal Patil
Staff Engineer
Meister
Imagine never typing out a migration again. Yeah, that's basically what Prisma does for you. Has saved me literal hours of time, and can for you too.
Profile photo of Chris Lis
Chris Lis
Dev Educator
ChrisCourses
Prisma has been instrumental in building ReUI, by providing a fully abstracted database layer. It accelerated our development speed several times over, letting us focus on business logic with a beautiful API and top-notch transaction support.
Profile photo of Shuhrat Saipov
Shuhrat Saipov
Co-founder
ReUI
For myBeat, we migrated our legacy codebase to Prisma very easily using Prisma ORM's introspection feature as we were moving from CakePHP to Node.js.
Profile photo of Jim Hendriks
Jim Hendriks
Tech Lead
myBeat
We adopted Prisma conventions as our standard and it saves lots of time having from reinventing things ourselves.
Profile photo of Yuval Hazaz
Yuval Hazaz
CEO
Amplication
Thanks to Prisma, we can seamlessly scale our applications, without concerns about data layer performance.
Profile photo of Matti Nannt
Matti Nannt
Co-founder
Formbricks
Underrated: Prisma 🐐
Entire SaaS businesses have been built on top of the Prisma ecosystem— including OSS ones like Dub.co. Have been loving the recent performance improvements as well 🔥
Profile photo of Steven Tey
Steven Tey
Founder
Dub.co
With Prisma, we migrated a core production system from MySQL to SQL Server with zero downtime, simply by swapping a few references and updating our schema. I can't imagine building systems without it; it's instrumental to major projects at Lush.
Profile photo of Niko Guerra
Niko Guerra
Senior Backend Engineering Manager
Lush
Prisma helps us unify data access from multiple enterprise systems into a single API. It means we can move very quickly whilst staying flexible.
Profile photo of Tom Hutchinson
Tom Hutchinson
Head of Mobile
Rapha
Prisma Postgres has really good DX. It's easy, simple, straightforward. I don't spend time on deployment. It just works.
Profile photo of Martin Adams
Martin Adams
Founder
Fluidwave
Prisma has a low learning curve. Productivity becomes higher because it gets combined with end-to-end type-safety using TypeScript.
Profile photo of Ricardo Almeida
Ricardo Almeida
Software Engineer
Grover
I have been using Prisma since day one, and it has become my number one choice for ORM. It's the default in @supastarter, and even though things like Drizzle might be more lightweight, the DX of Prisma is just unbeaten.
Profile photo of Jonathan Wilke
Jonathan Wilke
Frontend Dev
Juniqe
It's the kind of DX that lets me get stuff done in between my daughter's naps.
Profile photo of Nicolás Torres
Nicolás Torres
Fullstack Engineer
Backbase
Prisma Accelerate handled 670,000+ webhooks from Shopify when the orders webhook from 2022/23 was fired, which cost us about $11. Not bad for accidentally being DDoS'd to a Heroku Postgres instance with zero downtime, and all the entries made it through.
Profile photo of Harshdeep Singh Hura
Harshdeep Singh Hura
Shopify App Developer and Consultant
@kinngh
Prisma spares me the hassle of keeping my database in sync, allowing me to develop my product with complete confidence.
Profile photo of Dries Augustyns
Dries Augustyns
Founder
Plunk
I like how the Prisma docs made it easy to jump straight into using it without needing to do a huge amount of reading, and I instantly felt the benefits.
Profile photo of Daniel Cranney
Daniel Cranney
Developer Advocate
WeAreDevelopers
Huge fan of Prisma! The Schema file is great for Cursor. You literally never have to write a CRUD operation again.
Profile photo of
Experimenting with LLM powered apps
Jake Colling
I've been building the backend on @stockleapp, with Prisma since the beginning, and I've got to say, it has worked like a charm
Profile photo of Joonatan
Joonatan
Building
Stockle App
I keep switching from Prisma to whatever the latest flavor is, but always end up coming back to Prisma.
Profile photo of Ian Hunter
Ian Hunter
Pushing electrons
OpenSeas
Accelerate is a perfect fit for landing pages. We take advantage of caching to speed up queries and reduce latency, making them lightning-fast. This means we have a faster landing page, leading to better conversion.
Profile photo of Blake Carroll
Blake Carroll
CTO
Solin
I love how Prisma makes my life as a developer so easy. The TypeScript autocompletion is the best I've used, having tried many different ORMs. The migrations are a breeze. And I love how easy it is to get a full view of your database from the Prisma schema file. It's all in one place in readable format.
Profile photo of Elie Steinbock
Elie Steinbock
Founder
Inbox Zero
I love the Prisma typing system! Stack Auth relies heavily on it.
Profile photo of Zai Chi
Zai Chi
Co-founder
Stack Auth
Prisma enabled me to easily manage authentication as well as users' paid status. Prisma Accelerate was a huge boost to my productivity, cutting latency issues I was encountering with Vercel SQL.
Profile photo of Cody Bontecou
Cody Bontecou
Founder
i18nlocale
What I love most about Postiz is Prisma. It lets me switch between SQL databases effortlessly. I've used other ORMs before such as Eloquent (Laravel), but nothing matches Prisma's typing and features!
Profile photo of Nevo David
Nevo David
Founder
Postiz
Prisma's typesafe SQL is a great feature. It fills a great abstraction gap that existed prior to this. Earlier, I would have to fall back straight to pgtyped.
Profile photo of Harshal Patil
Harshal Patil
Staff Engineer
Meister
Imagine never typing out a migration again. Yeah, that's basically what Prisma does for you. Has saved me literal hours of time, and can for you too.
Profile photo of Chris Lis
Chris Lis
Dev Educator
ChrisCourses
Prisma has been instrumental in building ReUI, by providing a fully abstracted database layer. It accelerated our development speed several times over, letting us focus on business logic with a beautiful API and top-notch transaction support.
Profile photo of Shuhrat Saipov
Shuhrat Saipov
Co-founder
ReUI
For myBeat, we migrated our legacy codebase to Prisma very easily using Prisma ORM's introspection feature as we were moving from CakePHP to Node.js.
Profile photo of Jim Hendriks
Jim Hendriks
Tech Lead
myBeat

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