prisma studio | Visual Database Browser (Prisma CLI v7)

The prisma studio command starts a local web server with a web app to interactively browse and manage your data.

Usage

prisma studio [options]

Supported databases

Prisma Studio currently supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite. Support for CockroachDB and MongoDB is not available yet but may be added in future releases.

Prerequisites

Configure your database connection in prisma.config.ts:

generator client {
  provider = "prisma-client"
  output   = "../generated/prisma"
}

datasource db {
  provider = "sqlite"
}

import { defineConfig, env } from "prisma/config";

export default defineConfig({
  schema: "prisma/schema.prisma",
  migrations: {
    path: "prisma/migrations",
  },
  datasource: {
    url: env("DATABASE_URL"),
  },
});

Options

Option	Description	Default
`-h`, `--help`	Display help message
`-p`, `--port`	Port number to start Studio on	`5555`
`-b`, `--browser`	Browser to auto-open Studio in	System default
`--config`	Custom path to your Prisma config file
`--url`	Database connection string (overrides Prisma config)

Examples

Start Studio on the default port

bunx prisma studio

Start Studio on a custom port

bunx prisma studio --port 7777

Start Studio in a specific browser

bunx prisma studio --browser firefox

Or using the BROWSER environment variable:

BROWSER=firefox prisma studio

Start Studio without opening a browser

bunx prisma studio --browser none

Start Studio with a custom config file

bunx prisma studio --config=./prisma.config.ts

Start Studio with a direct database connection string

bunx prisma studio --url="postgresql://user:password@localhost:5432/dbname"

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