Pricing
Usage-based pricing that bills you for what your app actually does
Free
$0/ month
Free forever. No credit card required.
Prisma Compute
- 1M requests / month
- 360 GB-hours memory / month
- 4 active vCPU-hours / month
- 10 GB outbound bandwidth / month
Prisma Postgres
- 200k operations / month
- 500 MB storage
- 50 databases
Starter
$10/ month
Prisma Compute
- 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
Prisma Postgres
- 1M operations / month, then $8 per million
- 10 GB storage, then $2.00 per GB
- 1,000 databases
- 7-day daily backups
Platform
- Spend limits
Pro
$49/ month
Prisma Compute
- 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
Prisma Postgres
- 10M operations / month, then $2 per million
- 50 GB storage, then $1.50 per GB
- 1,000 databases
- 7-day daily backups
Platform
- Spend limits
- GDPR, HIPAA
Business
$129/ month
Prisma Compute
- 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
Prisma Postgres
- 50M operations / month, then $1 per million
- 100 GB storage
- 1,000 databases
- 30-day backup retention
Platform
- Spend limits
- GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001
Need more?
Custom pricing is available for high-volume teams.
How Prisma pricing works
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.
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.
Estimate your monthly usage
Database operations
100,000
1 query = 1 operation
Storage
500 MB
Data transfer — unlimited, included free
Free plan
Recommended$0/month
100,000 ops • 0.5GB storage • free forever
Starter plan
$10/month
1,000,000 ops included, then $0.008 per 1,000 • 10GB included, then $2/GB
Pro plan
$49/month
10,000,000 ops included, then $0.002 per 1,000 • 50GB included, then $1.5/GB
Business plan
$129/month
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.
Typical stack (Neon + Vercel)
$0–0/month
at ~50K MAU
- Billing
- Separate database + hosting bills
- Database data transfer
- Pay per GB
- Spend limits
- Not standard
Supabase Pro
$0–0/month
at ~50K MAU
- Billing
- Platform subscription + Postgres compute + function usage
- Database data transfer
- 250 GB egress included, then $0.09/GB
- Spend limits
- Spend cap on by default for covered usage; database compute excluded
Prisma Pro
Up to 5x less vs Neon + Vercel$0–0/month
at ~50K MAU
- Billing
- One bill, one platform
- Database data transfer
- Included
- Spend limits
- On by default
Compare plans
Everything below is included with your plan, across Prisma Postgres and Prisma Compute.
- Monthly price
Free
$0Starter
$10Pro
$49Business
$129
Prisma Postgres
- Operations included
Free
200kStarter
1MPro
10MBusiness
50M- Operation overage
Free
—Starter
$8 per millionPro
$2 per millionBusiness
$1 per million- Storage included
Free
500 MBStarter
10 GBPro
50 GBBusiness
100 GB- Storage overage
Free
—Starter
$2.00 per GBPro
$1.50 per GBBusiness
$1.00 per GB- Databases
Free
50Starter
1,000Pro
1,000Business
1,000- Data transfer
- Unlimited
- Spend limits
Free
—Starter
Pro
Business
Prisma Compute
- Requests included
Free
1MStarter
5MPro
20MBusiness
100M- Request price
Free
—Starter
$1 per millionPro
$1 per millionBusiness
$1 per million- Provisioned memory included
Free
360 GB-hoursStarter
—Pro
—Business
—- Provisioned memory price
Free
—Starter
$0.006 per GB-hourPro
$0.006 per GB-hourBusiness
$0.006 per GB-hour- Active CPU included
Free
4 vCPU-hoursStarter
—Pro
—Business
—- Active CPU price
Free
—Starter
$0.064 per vCPU-hourPro
$0.064 per vCPU-hourBusiness
$0.064 per vCPU-hour- Outbound bandwidth included
Free
10 GBStarter
—Pro
—Business
—- Outbound bandwidth price
Free
—Starter
$0.025 per GBPro
$0.025 per GBBusiness
$0.025 per GB- Scale to zero when idle
Managed connection pool
- Connection limit (pooled)
Free
10Starter
100Pro
500Business
1,000- Connection limit (direct)
Free
10Starter
10Pro
50Business
100- Connection idle timeout
- 60 minutes
- Auto-scaling
- Operation response size
- Unlimited
- Operation duration (db queries)
- Unlimited
- Operation duration (interactive)
- Unlimited
Accelerate (global cache)
- Operations included
- 60,000
- Operation overage
Free
—Starter
$0.018 per 1,000Pro
$0.008 per 1,000Business
$0.006 per 1,000- Egress included
Free
1 KiB per queryStarter
1 KiB per queryPro
1 KiB per queryBusiness
2 KiB per query- Egress overage
Free
—Starter
$0.09 per GiBPro
$0.09 per GiBBusiness
$0.08 per GiB- Cache tag invalidations
Free
—Starter
—Pro
$0.002 per 1,000, max 10,000 per dayBusiness
$0.001 per 1,000, max 100,000 per day- Cache purge requests
Free
5 per hourStarter
5 per hourPro
10 per hourBusiness
20 per hour
Data
- Query insights
- View and edit your data
- Backups
Free
—Starter
Daily, 7-day retentionPro
Daily, 7-day retentionBusiness
Daily, 30-day retention
Platform
- Support
Free
CommunityStarter
CommunityPro
StandardBusiness
Premium- Compliance
Free
GDPRStarter
GDPRPro
GDPR, HIPAABusiness
GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001- Prisma ORM
- 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.”
“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.”
“We are able to take advantage of caching to speed up queries and reduce latency, making them lightning fast.”
Blake CarrollCTO, Solin“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.”
“Prisma has a low learning curve. Productivity becomes higher because it gets combined with end-to-end type-safety using TypeScript.”
Ricardo AlmeidaSoftware Engineer, Grover“Prisma has been an absolute game changer for Memberstack. It has helped us move faster while also improving product stability.”
“Prisma makes database management incredibly easy. Prisma's built-in type safety helps us avoid mistakes that happen with manual setups.”
“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.”
“We are able to take advantage of caching to speed up queries and reduce latency, making them lightning fast.”
Blake CarrollCTO, Solin“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.”
“Prisma has a low learning curve. Productivity becomes higher because it gets combined with end-to-end type-safety using TypeScript.”
Ricardo AlmeidaSoftware Engineer, Grover“Prisma has been an absolute game changer for Memberstack. It has helped us move faster while also improving product stability.”
“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.”
“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 VenterSr. Software Engineer, Invisible“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.”
“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 NguyenCTO, Poppy“I chose Prisma because of its clean API, nice developer experience and type safety. It helped me ship v1 of Instatus really fast.”
“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 EmmerCTO & Co-Founder, Pearly Plan“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.”
“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 VenterSr. Software Engineer, Invisible“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.”
“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 NguyenCTO, Poppy“I chose Prisma because of its clean API, nice developer experience and type safety. It helped me ship v1 of Instatus really fast.”
“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 EmmerCTO & Co-Founder, Pearly PlanStart building on Prisma today
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