prisma vs drizzle-orm
Databases & ORMs · npm download comparison · data as of 17 October 2026
drizzle-orm is downloaded about 1.5× as often as prisma — 28,225,194 versus 19,032,465 downloads in the last 7 days.
Over the last 90 days, prisma downloads changed +36.0% and drizzle-orm +106.0% compared with the 90 days before, so drizzle-orm is growing faster.
● prisma● drizzle-ormweekly downloads, last 12 months
Log scale — each grid line is 10× the one below, so both packages stay readable.
| prisma | drizzle-orm | |
|---|---|---|
| Weekly downloads | 19,032,465 | 28,225,194 |
| Monthly downloads | 81,089,531 | 114,791,369 |
| Downloads, last 12 months | 564,783,709 | 505,522,263 |
| 90-day growth | +36.0% | +106.0% |
| Latest version | 8.0.0-rc.23 | 0.45.4 |
| License | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Direct dependencies | 12 | 0 |
| Description | The Prisma CLI: one binary for the ORM, Composer, and the Prisma Developer Platform. | Drizzle ORM package for SQL databases |
Download counts come from the public npm registry API and include CI and mirror traffic, so treat them as a popularity signal, not a user count.