# 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.

## iScore

68 / 100 (80% interval 62–74), rank 6 of 14 in databases — interval overlaps the next rank, so this is an ordering, not a finding.

inetGeek's own reading, computed from sourced facts against category peers by disclosed rules. Not a provider claim. Intervals are 80%; a provider with few documented facts is pulled toward the category middle rather than scored on what little is known.
Read this score with care:
- Capacity and limits is thin: 2 of 7 criteria are scored, so it sits near the category middle with a wide interval (41–53). Read the interval, not the point.
- Capabilities is thin: 1 of 5 criteria are scored, so it sits near the category middle with a wide interval (69–82). Read the interval, not the point.
- Trust and compliance is thin: 0 of 13 criteria are scored, so it sits near the category middle with a wide interval (73–86). Read the interval, not the point.
- Adoption is thin: 0 of 1 criteria are scored, so it sits near the category middle with a wide interval (8–99). Read the interval, not the point.
- Documented but not scored, because the page states it as text with no comparable number or a yes/limited/no (a one-time, usage-based or other-vendor price, or a per-site choice): free_expires, entry_plan_storage, support_included. Read them on the provider page; the score neither rewards nor penalises what it could not compare.

Method: https://inetgeek.com/iscore/. Full output with every criterion's basis: https://inetgeek.com/scores.json. Every databases peer ranked: https://inetgeek.com/databases/prisma-postgres/alternatives/

- Price: 72 (61–84), weight 25%, 4 of 6 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: egress_overage_price, free_expires
- Capacity and limits: 47 (41–53), weight 20%, 2 of 7 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: entry_plan_memory, entry_plan_storage, pitr_window, read_replicas, regions
- Capabilities: 75 (69–82), weight 20%, 1 of 5 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: backtrack, branching, read_replicas, scale_to_zero
- Trust and compliance: 80 (73–86), weight 15%, 0 of 13 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: audit_logs, customer_managed_keys, dedicated_infrastructure, encryption_at_rest, gdpr_data_residency, hipaa_eligible, iso27001, pci_dss, private_networking, rbac, soc2, support_included, uptime_sla
- Evidence: 80 (80–80), weight 10%, 4 of 4 criteria scored
- Adoption: 53 (8–99), weight 10%, 0 of 1 criteria scored

## What the documentation says

### Pricing

- Free tier: Yes ([source](https://www.prisma.io/pricing), read 2026-09-06)
- Kind of free offer: Always free ([source](https://www.prisma.io/pricing), read 2026-09-06)
- What the free plan includes: 1 million requests, 360 GB-hours of memory and 4 active vCPU-hours a month, with 500 MB of storage, free forever and no credit card. ([source](https://www.prisma.io/pricing), read 2026-09-13)
- Credit card to start: No ([source](https://www.prisma.io/pricing), read 2026-09-13)
- When the free offer ends: Never — the free tier has no time limit. ([source](https://www.prisma.io/pricing), read 2026-09-13)
- 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)
- Startup credit program: Prisma for Startups: database bill covered up to $10,000 for one year, plus 1:1 guidance. Venture-funded track requires pre-seed/seed/Series-A funding raised in the last 12 months and founded in the last 5 years; bootstrapped track requires ≥5k MRR for 6 months and 2 full-time team members. ([source](https://www.prisma.io/startups), read 2026-09-11)

### 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)

### Support

- Support on entry paid plan: Community support on Free and Starter; standard support on Pro; premium on Business. ([source](https://www.prisma.io/pricing), read 2026-09-14)

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