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The Prisma ORM: write your application in TypeScript with human-readable queries instead of SQL. Host your database on Prisma Postgres and your app on Prisma Compute.

What it is

Using Prisma 7? It is maintained for eighteen months after 8.0.0 final; supported versions says what that covers. Its source lives on the v7 branch of this repository and its docs at prisma.io/docs/orm/v7. Prisma 8 is a release candidate. 8.0.0 final is expected in the next four to eight weeks. Until then a release candidate may include breaking changes, and every release ships with an upgrade recipe that the prisma-8 skill applies for you. The candidate is a complete implementation we stand behind: we treat bugs in it as urgent, and the risk you take on is a feature that is not built yet rather than churn. The feature scoreboard names every gap. New projects should start here. Existing…

When to use it

Reach for orm when your app needs to store, query, cache or sync data — it's written in TypeScript and fits stacks tagged cockroachdb, database, javascript, loggy-core.

Category
Databases & ORMs
Also in
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Stars
47,666
Forks
2,610
Last push
today
Created
2019-06-20
Open issues
2,839
Website
prisma.io
#cockroachdb#database#javascript#loggy-core#loggy-terminal#mariadb#mongodb#mssql#mysql#node#orm#postgres#prisma#prisma-client

Quick start

$ git clone https://github.com/prisma/orm.git

Hand it to your AI

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FAQ

What is orm?

prisma/orm is a database tool on GitHub: The Prisma ORM: write your application in TypeScript with human-readable queries instead of SQL. Host your database on Prisma Postgres and your app on Prisma Compute. Using Prisma 7?

When should I use orm?

Reach for orm when your app needs to store, query, cache or sync data — it's written in TypeScript and fits stacks tagged cockroachdb, database, javascript, loggy-core.

What are the best alternatives to orm?

Popular alternatives in Databases & ORMs: supabase/supabase (115k★), redis/redis (77.4k★), duckdb/duckdb (43k★), drizzle-team/drizzle-orm (36.3k★), electric-sql/pglite (16.3k★).

Is orm actively maintained?

prisma/orm looks very actively maintained: the last push was today (2026-11-11), with 47,666 stars and 2,839 open issues.

What license does orm use?

prisma/orm is published under the Apache-2.0 license. Check the repository's LICENSE file before commercial use.