# Prisma Postgres

Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/databases/prisma-postgres/

Serverless Postgres from the Prisma ORM team, billed on requests and compute with a pooled connection limit per plan.

## Who it suits

Prisma ORM users who want the database and the client from one vendor, with a pooled connection limit stated per plan rather than left to be discovered.

Consider something else if Four separate meters — requests, memory, vCPU and bandwidth — sit on top of the plan fee, so the monthly number is a floor rather than a bill.

## What the documentation says

### Pricing

- Free tier: Yes ([source](https://www.prisma.io/pricing), read 2026-09-06)
- Entry paid plan: $10/month for Starter. Pro is $49 and Business $129, each including a larger request allowance. ([source](https://www.prisma.io/pricing), read 2026-09-06)
- Pricing model: A plan fee plus usage: requests, memory GB-hours, active vCPU-hours and outbound bandwidth are each metered — $1 per million requests beyond the allowance, $0.006 per GB-hour, $0.064 per vCPU-hour, $0.025 per GB out. ([source](https://www.prisma.io/pricing), read 2026-09-06)

### Limits

- Storage (entry plan): 500 MB on the free plan across 50 databases. Paid plans raise the database count to 1,000 and beyond. ([source](https://www.prisma.io/pricing), read 2026-09-06)

### Execution

- Managed connection pooling: Supported ([source](https://www.prisma.io/pricing), read 2026-09-06)

### Data

- Engine: PostgreSQL. ([source](https://www.prisma.io/pricing), read 2026-09-06)
- Connection limit: 100 pooled connections on Starter and 10 direct; 10 pooled on Free, 500 on Pro and 1,000 on Business. ([source](https://www.prisma.io/pricing), read 2026-09-06)
- When idle: Scales to zero when idle, and Prisma states an idle app costs nothing. ([source](https://www.prisma.io/pricing), read 2026-09-06)
- Backup retention: Daily backups with 7-day retention on Starter and Pro, 30 days on Business. The free plan has none. ([source](https://www.prisma.io/pricing), read 2026-09-06)

## Compared with

- [Prisma Postgres vs Neon](https://inetgeek.com/compare/neon-vs-prisma-postgres/)
- [Prisma Postgres vs Supabase](https://inetgeek.com/compare/supabase-vs-prisma-postgres/)
- [Prisma Postgres vs Turso](https://inetgeek.com/compare/prisma-postgres-vs-turso/)
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