Bucket
“Prisma makes database management incredibly easy. Prisma's built-in type safety helps us avoid mistakes that happen with manual setups.”
Ron Cohen
Co-founder & CTO, Bucket
Pricing
Usage-based pricing that bills you for what your app actually does
Free
$0/ month
Free forever. No credit card required.
- 100,000 operations / month
- 500 MB storage
- 50 databases
Most popular
Starter
$10/ month
- 1,000,000 operations / month, then $0.0080 per 1,000
- 10 GB storage, then $2.00 per GB
- 1,000 databases
- 7-day daily backups
- Spend limits
Pro
$49/ month
- 10,000,000 operations / month, then $0.0020 per 1,000
- 50 GB storage, then $1.50 per GB
- 1,000 databases
- 7-day daily backups
- Spend limits
- GDPR, HIPAA
Business
$129/ month
- 50,000,000 operations / month, then $0.0010 per 1,000
- 100 GB storage
- 1,000 databases
- 30-day backup retention
- 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. Every query your app runs against your Prisma Postgres database counts 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. 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
All of the features below are included with Prisma Postgres.
Usage
- Monthly price
Free
$0Starter
$10Pro
$49Business
$129- Operations included
Free
100,000Starter
1,000,000Pro
10,000,000Business
50,000,000- Operation overage
Free
—Starter
$0.0080 per 1,000Pro
$0.0020 per 1,000Business
$0.0010 per 1,000- 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
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
Global cache
- Cache tag invalidations
- TBC
- Cache purge requests
- TBC
Data
- Query insights
- View and edit your data
- Backups
Free
TBCStarter
Daily, 7-day retentionPro
Daily, 7-day retentionBusiness
Daily, 30-day retention
Platform
- Support
- TBC
- Compliance
Free
GDPRStarter
GDPRPro
GDPR, HIPAABusiness
GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001- Prisma ORM
- Free
Real teams, real builds
Start building on Prisma today
Prisma ORM is free and always will be. Spin up a Prisma Postgres database and deploy your first app in minutes.
- No credit card required to start
- Free tier with no time limit
- Upgrade or downgrade anytime
FAQs
An operation is a single action against your Prisma Postgres database — a create, read, update, or delete. A simple write and a complex query with multiple joins each count as one operation, and a cached read counts too.