# Usage-based pricing that bills you for what your app actually does (/pricing)

> Prisma Pricing | Usage-Based Plans for Postgres and Compute. For the complete Prisma website index, see [llms.txt](https://www.prisma.io/llms.txt). A Markdown version of any listed page is available at its `.md` URL — this one is `/pricing.md`.

Usage-based pricing for your whole stack — Prisma Compute app hosting and Prisma Postgres databases. Pay for the work your app does, not seats or deploys. Free tier with no time limit, hard spend limits on every paid plan.

Prisma bills you for real work, on both halves of your stack. Your app on Prisma Compute pays for the requests it serves, the memory and CPU it uses while running, and the data it sends out. Your database on Prisma Postgres counts every query as one operation, and operations are what you pay for.

## Plans

| Plan | Price | Prisma Compute | Prisma Postgres | Platform | Get started |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 / month — Free forever. No credit card required. | 1M requests / month; 360 GB-hours memory / month; 4 active vCPU-hours / month; 10 GB outbound bandwidth / month | 200k operations / month; 500 MB storage; 50 databases | — | [Start for free](https://console.prisma.io/sign-up) |
| Starter (Most popular) | $10 / month | 5M requests / month, then $1 per million; $0.006 per GB-hour memory; $0.064 per active vCPU-hours; $0.025 per GB outbound bandwidth | 1M operations / month, then $8 per million; 10 GB storage, then $2.00 per GB; 1,000 databases; 7-day daily backups | Spend limits | [Get started](https://console.prisma.io/sign-up) |
| Pro | $49 / month | 20M requests / month, then $1 per million; $0.006 per GB-hour memory; $0.064 per active vCPU-hours; $0.025 per GB outbound bandwidth | 10M operations / month, then $2 per million; 50 GB storage, then $1.50 per GB; 1,000 databases; 7-day daily backups | Spend limits; GDPR, HIPAA | [Get started](https://console.prisma.io/sign-up) |
| Business | $129 / month | 100M requests / month, then $1 per million; $0.006 per GB-hour memory; $0.064 per active vCPU-hours; $0.025 per GB outbound bandwidth | 50M operations / month, then $1 per million; 100 GB storage; 1,000 databases; 30-day backup retention | Spend limits; GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001 | [Get started](https://console.prisma.io/sign-up) |

### Need more?

Custom pricing is available for high-volume teams.

- [Contact us](/contact)

## How Prisma pricing works

The ceremony around shipping stays free: deploys, preview branches, idle time, and the number of people on your team never add to the bill. An idle app scales to zero and costs nothing. A request does the same work whether it comes from a person, a script, or an AI agent, so that work is all you're charged for.

Every paid plan also includes a hard spend limit, on by default, so usage-based pricing stays predictable and never becomes a surprise bill.

### Every plan includes

- Prisma ORM (always free)
- Unlimited Prisma Postgres data transfer
- Spend limits
- Prisma Studio
- CLI + Management API

## Estimate usage before you upgrade

Estimate your usage before you upgrade, then set a spend limit so the bill can't surprise you. The calculator recommends the right plan for where you are.

- Hobby — 100K · 500 MB
- Startup — 1M · 8 GB
- Scaleup — 20M · 40 GB

### Estimate your monthly usage

- Database operations per month — 1 query = 1 operation
- Storage in gigabytes
- Data transfer — unlimited, included free

- **Free plan** — 100,000 ops • 0.5GB storage • free forever
- **Starter plan** — 1,000,000 ops included, then $0.008 per 1,000 • 10GB included, then $2/GB
- **Pro plan** — 10,000,000 ops included, then $0.002 per 1,000 • 50GB included, then $1.5/GB
- **Business plan** — 50,000,000 ops included, then $0.001 per 1,000 • 100GB included, then $1/GB

Hard spend limit, on by default — never a surprise bill.

## See how Prisma compares at scale

Prisma charges per operation: each query your app runs against your database counts as one. No seats. No egress fees. And every paid plan includes a hard spend limit so there are no surprises.

At around 50K monthly active users, Prisma Pro can cost up to 5x less than a typical Neon + Vercel setup, with one bill, included data transfer, and spend limits on by default.

Up to 5x less vs Neon + Vercel

| Feature | Typical stack (Neon + Vercel) | Supabase Pro | Prisma Pro |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Monthly cost at ~50K MAU | $385–450 | $95–145 | $72–90 |
| Billing | Separate database + hosting bills | Platform subscription + Postgres compute + function usage | One bill, one platform |
| Database data transfer | Pay per GB | 250 GB egress included, then $0.09/GB | Included |
| Spend limits | Not standard | Spend cap on by default for covered usage; database compute excluded | On by default |

## Compare plans

Everything below is included with your plan, across Prisma Postgres and Prisma Compute.

Feature and limit comparison across the Free, Starter, Pro and Business plans.

| Plan | Free | Starter | Pro | Business |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Monthly price | $0 | $10 | $49 | $129 |

### Prisma Postgres

| Feature | Free | Starter | Pro | Business |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Operations included | 200k | 1M | 10M | 50M |
| Operation overage | — | $8 per million | $2 per million | $1 per million |
| Storage included | 500 MB | 10 GB | 50 GB | 100 GB |
| Storage overage | — | $2.00 per GB | $1.50 per GB | $1.00 per GB |
| Databases | 50 | 1,000 | 1,000 | 1,000 |
| Data transfer | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Spend limits | — | Included | Included | Included |

### Prisma Compute

| Feature | Free | Starter | Pro | Business |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Requests included | 1M | 5M | 20M | 100M |
| Request price | — | $1 per million | $1 per million | $1 per million |
| Provisioned memory included | 360 GB-hours | — | — | — |
| Provisioned memory price | — | $0.006 per GB-hour | $0.006 per GB-hour | $0.006 per GB-hour |
| Active CPU included | 4 vCPU-hours | — | — | — |
| Active CPU price | — | $0.064 per vCPU-hour | $0.064 per vCPU-hour | $0.064 per vCPU-hour |
| Outbound bandwidth included | 10 GB | — | — | — |
| Outbound bandwidth price | — | $0.025 per GB | $0.025 per GB | $0.025 per GB |
| Scale to zero when idle | Included | Included | Included | Included |

### Managed connection pool

| Feature | Free | Starter | Pro | Business |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Connection limit (pooled) | 10 | 100 | 500 | 1,000 |
| Connection limit (direct) | 10 | 10 | 50 | 100 |
| Connection idle timeout | 60 minutes | 60 minutes | 60 minutes | 60 minutes |
| Auto-scaling | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Operation response size | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Operation duration (db queries) | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Operation duration (interactive) | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |

### Accelerate (global cache)

| Feature | Free | Starter | Pro | Business |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Operations included | 60,000 | 60,000 | 60,000 | 60,000 |
| Operation overage | — | $0.018 per 1,000 | $0.008 per 1,000 | $0.006 per 1,000 |
| Egress included | 1 KiB per query | 1 KiB per query | 1 KiB per query | 2 KiB per query |
| Egress overage | — | $0.09 per GiB | $0.09 per GiB | $0.08 per GiB |
| Cache tag invalidations | — | — | $0.002 per 1,000, max 10,000 per day | $0.001 per 1,000, max 100,000 per day |
| Cache purge requests | 5 per hour | 5 per hour | 10 per hour | 20 per hour |

### Data

| Feature | Free | Starter | Pro | Business |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Query insights | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| View and edit your data | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Backups | — | Daily, 7-day retention | Daily, 7-day retention | Daily, 30-day retention |

### Platform

| Feature | Free | Starter | Pro | Business |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Support | Community | Community | Standard | Premium |
| Compliance | GDPR | GDPR | GDPR, HIPAA | GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001 |
| Prisma ORM | Free | Free | Free | Free |

## Real teams, real builds

- "Prisma makes database management incredibly easy. Prisma's built-in type safety helps us avoid mistakes that happen with manual setups." — Ron Cohen, Co-founder & CTO, Bucket
- "We are able to take advantage of caching to speed up queries and reduce latency, making them lightning fast." — Blake Carroll, CTO, Solin
- "Prisma has a low learning curve. Productivity becomes higher because it gets combined with end-to-end type-safety using TypeScript." — Ricardo Almeida, Software Engineer, Grover
- "Prisma's approach to type-safe ORM is next-level. It provides full type-safety without any codegen or messy types and interfaces to write and maintain." — Pieter Venter, Sr. Software Engineer, Invisible
- "The combination of Prisma, TypeScript and our pretty thorough coverage with integration tests gives us the confidence to refactor critical parts of our code." — Thibaut Nguyen, CTO, Poppy
- "This is the fastest I've ever developed in my life, by far. The tooling has dramatically cut down on the amount of time I've had to spend." — Sean Emmer, CTO & Co-Founder, Pearly Plan
- "We chose Prisma because it provides us with type safety directly from the database. It has helped us tremendously to catch possible errors early on." — Omar López, Sr. Software Engineer, Cal.com
- "We've proudly built the core of our APIs on top of Prisma, and we are very happy that we did. It doesn't make us jump through unnecessary hoops to get normal work done and generally just works." — James Fox, Co-Founder, Gamma
- "Prisma is the best ORM I have ever used, I never want to use anything else again. The excellent developer experience with its incredible TypeScript support sold me at first." — Max Stoiber, Founder, Stellate
- "Prisma is a professional enterprise-ready tool that is easy to start using, ramp up and scale. It is the type of tool developed for the software engineers of today." — Matt Matheson, Co-Founder, Trunk
- "Prisma has been an absolute game changer for Memberstack. It has helped us move faster while also improving product stability." — Tyler Bell, Co-founder, Memberstack
- "I chose Prisma because of its clean API, nice developer experience and type safety. It helped me ship v1 of Instatus really fast." — Ali Salah, Founder, Instatus

## Start building on Prisma today

Prisma ORM is free and always will be. Spin up a Prisma Postgres database and deploy your first app in minutes.

- No credit card required to start
- Free tier with no time limit
- Upgrade or downgrade anytime

- [Get started free](https://console.prisma.io/sign-up)
- [Talk to us](/contact)

## FAQs

### What counts as an operation?

An operation is a single action against your Prisma Postgres database — a create, read, update, or delete. A simple write and a complex query with multiple joins each count as one operation, and a cached read counts too.

### Is Prisma ORM really free?

Yes. Prisma ORM is open source and will always be free. The paid plans cover Prisma Postgres (managed database hosting) and Prisma Compute (app hosting).

### What happens if I exceed my plan's operations?

Overage rates kick in automatically at the per-million rate shown on your plan. You can set a spend limit on any paid plan to cap how much you're charged in a billing cycle.

### Are there egress fees?

Not for your database — unlimited data transfer is included with Prisma Postgres on all plans. Prisma Compute includes 10 GB of outbound bandwidth per month on Free. Paid plans bill outbound bandwidth at $0.025 per GB.

### Can I change plans later?

Yes. You can upgrade or downgrade your plan at any time.

### What is Prisma Compute?

Prisma Compute is TypeScript app hosting built to run alongside Prisma Postgres — co-located on the same infrastructure so your app and database are always next to each other. It's billed on usage across four meters — requests, provisioned memory, active CPU, and outbound bandwidth — and an idle app scales to zero and costs nothing.

### Is there custom pricing for high-volume teams?

Yes. If your usage exceeds what the Business plan covers, get in touch and we'll work out the right plan for your team.