Prisma

Prisma Postgres is a developer-friendly, serverless database built for high-performance, fullstack applications. Leveraging a unikernel-based architecture on bare metal servers, it delivers fast queries, seamless scaling, all without cold starts—perfect for serverless and edge.

Prisma Postgres offers a unique set of features and benefits:

• Designed for serverless & edge applications
• Built-in global caching
• Scalable connection pooling
• Zero cold starts
• Generous free tier
• Visual data management
• AI-powered performance tips
• Lightweight & type-safe database client

Whether you’re building high-traffic, production apps or quick prototypes, Prisma Postgres offers the flexibility, speed, and scalability you need.

Environment variables

When enabled in your Vercel project, this integration will the set DATABASE_URL environment variable to connect to a Prisma Postgres instance.

Pricing

Prisma Postgres charges per operation, not for fixed compute resources, like most other providers. Whether you're doing reads, writes, simple queries, or complex ones, it all comes with a simple and predictable cost you can reason about and avoid surprise bills at the end of the month. Learn more on our pricing page.

Usage with Prisma ORM

Prisma Postgres currently requires Prisma ORM for database migrations and queries. Support for other ORMs will come soon.