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Prisma

Open-source ORM and database tooling

Overview

Prisma builds developer tools to help create data-rich applications more easily. Its Accelerate product caches data and pools connections to speed up data access, Pulse delivers real-time, type-safe database events, and an open-source Node.js/TypeScript ORM maps database tables to code to simplify querying. Unlike competitors, Prisma combines an ORM with complementary tools in a remote-first setup focused on developer productivity and data experience. Its goal is to help developers and businesses build scalable, reliable data-driven applications faster by streamlining data access, real-time updates, and database interactions.

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About Prisma

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Why Prisma is rated
B-
Rated B on Competitive Edge
Rated B on Growth Potential
Rated C on Differentiation

Industries

Data & AnalyticsEnterprise Software

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$56.5M

Headquarters

Berlin, Germany

Founded

2016

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What believers are saying

  • Prisma Compute GA on August 28, 2026 expands hosting revenue with usage-based pricing.
  • November 3, 2026 ChatGPT plugin turns Prisma into default AI-driven app deployment path.
  • October 26, 2026 Prisma Postgres migration off Amazon RDS proved zero-downtime operational maturity.

What critics are saying

  • Accelerate retires December 1, 2026, forcing migrations off a core networking product.
  • Prisma Postgres Early Access databases deleted November 1, 2026, creating urgent customer churn.
  • OpenAI-style prompt deployment commoditizes Prisma; platform giants can copy the workflow quickly.

What makes Prisma unique

  • Prisma bundles ORM, database, and compute into one agent-friendly workflow.
  • Prisma Compute GA on August 28, 2026 deploys TypeScript beside Prisma Postgres.
  • Prisma remains the default TypeScript data layer for teams wanting open-source abstractions.

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Funding

Total Funding

$56.5M

Meets

Industry Average

Funded Over

3 Rounds

Notable Investors:
Series B funding is typically for startups that have proven their business model and need more funding to expand rapidly—often by entering new markets or adding more products. Investors are usually venture capital firms that specialize in later-stage investments.
Series B Funding Comparison
Above Average

Industry standards

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Benefits

  • Stock options
  • Vacation days
  • Parental leave
  • Sick leave
  • Generous recurring tech budget
  • Yearly company offsite
  • Co-working spaces
  • 401k matching
  • Medical, dental, & vision cover

Growth & Insights and Company News

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

3%

2 year growth

2%
SimpMusic
Oct 26th, 2026
Prisma's official ChatGPT plugin turns one prompt into a deployed app.

Prisma's official ChatGPT plugin turns one prompt into a deployed app. October 26, 2026 news Prisma launched an official ChatGPT plugin that connects ChatGPT and Codex to Prisma ORM, Prisma Postgres, and Prisma Compute, letting one prompt write the data layer, create the database, and deploy the app. Nguyen duc tuan minh. SimpMusic Developer Prisma shipped an official ChatGPT plugin on October 26, 2026, and its pitch is unusually blunt for a database company: stop switching between dashboards and CLIs, and let the assistant write the data layer, create the database, and deploy the result from a single prompt. What happened. Prisma's announcement describes one plugin that connects ChatGPT to three products at once: Prisma ORM, Prisma Postgres, and Prisma Compute. The claimed flow is a single conversation - you describe the app, ChatGPT writes the schema and queries, provisions a Postgres database, and pushes the finished app to Prisma's compute platform. The company's example prompt is a workout tracker: "Build me a workout tracker using Prisma ORM and Prisma Postgres, then deploy it to Prisma Compute." Prisma says a developer can install the plugin, open Codex, and let the assistant carry that request through to a running deployment. What Prisma's post confirms. The official post confirms the shape of the integration, not just the marketing line: * The plugin is first-party, published by Prisma itself, and covers ORM, Postgres, and Compute. * It works inside ChatGPT and Codex, which means the same plugin surface is expected to serve both a chat-style workflow and a coding-agent workflow. * OpenAI is co-signing the framing. Arpan Shah, OpenAI's Tech Vertical GM, is quoted in the post: "Turn your idea into a real product in 15 minutes with Prisma and ChatGPT." That second point matters more than the quote itself. A vertical GM naming a 15-minute build-to-deploy loop is a statement about where OpenAI thinks plugins are headed: not as chat toys, but as the delivery mechanism for entire product stacks. Why it is landing in developer timelines. Prisma closed the post with an explicit ask - share what you build in Discord, or tag @prisma on X - and the launch-day conversation on X followed that script: builders posting what they shipped, and the database crowd arguing about whether handing schema generation to a model is convenience or a future incident report. The reason the story travels is structural. Every previous "AI builds your app" demo stopped at code in a folder. This one ends at a URL, with a database attached and a bill attached to that database. That is a different claim, and it is testable in a way that a code snippet is not. What this means for developers and product teams. * The plugin is distribution, not a feature. Prisma is not selling a ChatGPT integration; it is buying placement in the exact moment a developer decides which database to reach for. If the assistant already knows Prisma's schema conventions and can provision Postgres in one step, the default choice gets made before anyone opens a comparison page. * The prototype-to-deploy gap collapses, and so does the review gap. The step that used to force a pause - wiring a real database, setting connection strings, choosing a host - is now the model's job. Teams need to decide, in advance, what a generated migration is allowed to touch before it reaches production. * Prompt-level lock-in is real but soft. The plugin teaches the model one stack's idioms. Moving off it later means re-establishing that context elsewhere. That is a weaker lock-in than a proprietary runtime, but it is still a nudge applied at the moment of least resistance. * Evaluate it as an ops question, not a demo. Ask who owns the generated schema, how migrations are reviewed, what happens to the database when the conversation ends, and which account gets billed. What remains unclear. Prisma's post does not state plan requirements, regional availability, or pricing for the plugin's deploy path. It also does not describe how team permissions, billing ownership, or existing Prisma projects map onto plugin-created resources, and there is no independent performance or reliability data for the one-prompt deploy flow. Until Prisma publishes that detail - and until someone posts a real incident from a generated migration - treat the plugin as a fast path to a first deploy, not as a replacement for the review step that keeps production intact.

Prisma
Aug 26th, 2024
Announcing TypedSQL: Make your raw SQL queries type-safe with Prisma ORM

With today's Prisma ORM v5.19.0 release, Prisma Data, Inc. is thrilled to announce TypedSQL: The best way to write complex and highly performant queries.

Business Wire
Mar 19th, 2024
Redpanda Serverless Delivers Powerful Streaming Data Platform As A Fully Managed Pay-As-You-Go Service

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--At Kafka Summit London, Redpanda announced the availability of Redpanda Serverless, a fully managed, pay-as-you-go edition of its powerful, cost-effective streaming data platform. Redpanda Serverless empowers developers to get started with streaming data in seconds and to automatically scale the service up or down to match their data workloads. As with all Redpanda products, Redpanda Serverless is fully Apache Kafka® API-compatible, ensuring it works with the complete Kafka ecosystem without requiring changes to application code. “The magic of Redpanda Serverless is its ability to create a globally available cluster in the blink of an eye,” said Redpanda CEO and founder Alex Gallego. “Engineered from the ground up for massive multi-tenancy, speed and performance, Redpanda Serverless is the most cost effective and simplest way to get started with streaming, whether you are a solo dev just getting started or an expert at a large enterprise looking to absorb spikes and scale to zero during downtime.”. With Redpanda Serverless, developers will be able to tap into the Redpanda streaming data ecosystem to build new real-time applications

KILL NET SWITCH
Jan 3rd, 2024
Extremely exploited Chromium bug traced to a Google OAuth endpoint

To substantiate {that a} MultiLogin endpoint has been used to regenerate session cookies within the exploit, CloudSEK conversed with Prisma and reverse engineered the exploit executable supplied by the menace actor.

Prisma
Oct 6th, 2023
Support for Serverless Database Drivers in Prisma ORM Is Now in Preview

Prisma is releasing Preview support for serverless database drivers from Neon and PlanetScale.

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