Prisma Postgres
- Free allowance
- 200,000 operations per month, 2 GB storage, 50 databases, 10 direct connections, and Prisma Compute with 1 million requests
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- request-rate200,000 operations per month; every query is one operation; 10 direct connections and 10 pooled connections on Free
- Evidence
- documented1 source; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
| Free tier | 200,000 operations per month, 2 GB storage, 50 databases, 10 direct connections, and Prisma Compute with 1 million requests unit mixed; metered on request-count |
|---|---|
| Price | USD 8 per million operations; storage USD 2.00/GB beyond 10 GB on Starter |
| Limits |
connection idle timeout is 60 minutes |
| Identity | email email signup; no card on Free |
| Egress | the database itself has no egress fee on any published plan; Prisma Compute includes 10 GB of outbound bandwidth a month and then USD 0.025 per GB free allowance: no database egress fee; 10 GB per month on Prisma Compute |
| Per-object cap | 2 GB storage on Free; 10 connections direct and 10 pooled |
| Retention | a database persists while the plan is active; the Accelerate cache retires on 2026-12-01 |
| Interface | rest, cli the Postgres wire protocol; the Prisma ORM; a Management API |
| Tooling | the Prisma ORM, psql, any Postgres client |
| Composes with | 50 databases on one free account is the widest per-tenant fan-out in this class, if 10 connections per database is enough |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Notes | 200,000 operations a month is 6,667 a day, which is a prototype and not a service. The 10-connection ceiling is the second wall and it is the one that shows up when a pooler is added and the pool itself is the limit. |
| Evidence note | documented the pricing page's plan table was read. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 1
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 | www.prisma.io/pricing | Free: 200k operations, 2 GB storage, 50 databases, connection limit pooled 10, connection limit direct 10, connection idle timeout 60 minutes, data transfer unlimited; Prisma Compute Free 1M requests, 360 GB-hours provisioned memory, 4 vCPU-hours active CPU, 10 GB outbound bandwidth |
Unknown values 1
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed