[sorenbs]

It's not every day you get to launch a hosted Postgres service that has something fundamentally new to offer. That's what we have done with Prisma Postgres, and I'm incredibly excited for it.

We are using Firecracker and unikernals to deliver true scale-to-zero without cold-starts. Happy to go into more detail if anyone is interested.

[thenaturalist]

You ommited another fairly known serverless Postgres provider which also does that (scale to 0 and no coldstart):

Nile (thenile.dev).

Not affiliated in any way with Nile, just a happy user.

I find their pricing much easier to reason about and plan, something I found super cluttered and hard to reason about on your pricing page.

Competition in the serverless Postgres space is always welcome from a customer perspective, but my gripe is currently a) bundling with Prisma - I might not want to use your tool and b) cluttered pricing.

[gniting]

Thanks for the feedback!

The point re: pricing explanation is well taken. We've already done a revision and will work on another one as we get more feedback on the latest version.

[ilkhan4]

Wow, I thought you guys were just reselling Neon like some others. This is genuinely impressive technically. It's got me looking at Unikraft Cloud for other stuff too.

That said, do you plan do offer branching or any other features that Neon offer? I think that's their big selling point along with separate billing for compute and storage.

[gniting]

Prisma team member here... Yes, when we go GA, we'll offer features that'll give you the comfort of wanting to run your production loads on Prisma Postgres!

[andric]

Congrats on the launch!

I’m a bit confused about the pricing.

The docs and pricing pages on your website don’t seem to outline how the pay-as-you-go pricing will work.

Is this still being figured out?

[eampiart]

Essentially, you pay for database queries and events, with 60'000 included for free, which is plenty for experimenting and small projects. Price per million queries/events is then based on the plan you're subscribed to, and with Starter you have zero monthly fixed costs and only pay for queries and events above 60'000. No CPU-time and similar that's usually hard to grok.

Take a look at the Accelerate and Pulse pricing details. Prisma Postgres comes bundled with these, so the pay-as-you-go pricing is the same: https://www.prisma.io/pricing#accelerate

We'll continue to make improvements to the pricing on the way to General Availability to make it both as easy to understand and affordable as possible.