How much does Prisma cost?

Prisma publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Open Source up to $50/monthly for Professional. The entry tier costs nothing.

Does Prisma have a free plan?

Yes. The Open Source tier costs nothing and covers full prisma orm, community support. Paying starts at $50/monthly for Professional.

What is the difference between Open Source and Professional on Prisma?

Professional costs $50/monthly against Free, and adds extended browser, priority support, monitoring.

Which api management tools can I use without paying?

5 of the 8 api management tools listed alongside Prisma have a free tier: Backendless, Asyncapi, AWS API Gateway, Appwrite, Microsoft Azure API Management.

Does Prisma charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.

Are these Prisma prices current?

They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.

What should I compare Prisma against before paying?

The closest api management tools in this directory are Backendless, Asyncapi, Akana, Boomi API Management. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Prisma covering price, platforms and features.

API Management · pricing

Prisma pricing

Prisma publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

Entry price: Free
Model: Open-source
Tiers: 2
Free tier: Yes

Prisma plans, side by side

Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.

Prisma pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Open Source	Free	2	Entry tier
Professional	$50/monthly	3	+$50/monthly, 3 more features

What each tier adds

The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.

Open Source

Free

The entry tier. It covers full prisma orm, community support.

Professional

$50/monthly

Over Open Source, this tier adds:

Extended browser
Priority support
Monitoring

Where Prisma stops being free

Open Source, Free

Full Prisma ORM
Community support

Professional, $50/monthly

The first thing you pay for:

Extended browser
Priority support
Monitoring

What the product covers

The full Prisma feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.

Core

ORM
Query builder
Auto-migrations

Integrations

Node.js
TypeScript
GraphQL
REST APIs

Platform

Node.js support
TypeScript support

People bring Prisma in for using a type safe orm and query layer against a postgres database, adding a managed connection pool and edge cache in front of an existing database. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Prisma are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in API Management

Too few api management tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.

Prisma entry price against other API Management tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Prisma (this page)	Free	open-source	-
Backendless	Free, then $15/month	-	-	vs Prisma
Asyncapi	Free	open-source	-	vs Prisma
Akana	$2500/monthly	subscription	-	vs Prisma
Boomi API Management	$1500/monthly	subscription	-	vs Prisma
AWS API Gateway	Free	usage-based	-	vs Prisma
Appwrite	Free, then $15/month	-	-	vs Prisma

Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Prisma badges page.

Before you pay for Prisma

Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.

What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 2 tiers between Free and $50/monthly, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.

Prisma runs on node.js, typescript, and is published by Prisma of Berlin, Germany. The full record is on the Prisma review, and the rest of the category is under best api management tools.

Prisma pricing on the vendor's own site

Prisma pricing questions

How much does Prisma cost?: Prisma publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Open Source up to $50/monthly for Professional. The entry tier costs nothing.
Does Prisma have a free plan?: Yes. The Open Source tier costs nothing and covers full prisma orm, community support. Paying starts at $50/monthly for Professional.
What is the difference between Open Source and Professional on Prisma?: Professional costs $50/monthly against Free, and adds extended browser, priority support, monitoring.
Which api management tools can I use without paying?: 5 of the 8 api management tools listed alongside Prisma have a free tier: Backendless, Asyncapi, AWS API Gateway, Appwrite, Microsoft Azure API Management.
What am I actually paying for with Prisma?: The record lists 9 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for using a type safe orm and query layer against a postgres database, adding a managed connection pool and edge cache in front of an existing database.
Does Prisma charge per user?: The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
Are these Prisma prices current?: They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
What should I compare Prisma against before paying?: The closest api management tools in this directory are Backendless, Asyncapi, Akana, Boomi API Management. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Prisma covering price, platforms and features.