# Prisma Compute (/docs/compute)

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Deploy TypeScript services alongside Prisma Postgres, with hosting, database branches, and previews managed together.

Location: Prisma Compute

Prisma Compute is a hosting platform for TypeScript services. It runs your application next to [Prisma Postgres](/guides/introduction-2-postgres) and gives every Git branch an isolated environment: its own service, environment variables, and optionally its own database.

Compute works with any supported TypeScript framework. It pairs with [Prisma ORM](/guides/introduction-2-orm) for data access, but that is not required.

> \[!NOTE]
> These docs use the Prisma CLI, run as `npx prisma@latest`. Deployments come from the [`deploy` command](/guides/platform-deploy) for a [Prisma Composer](/guides/build-composer) app, from a git push once you [set up deploy on push](/guides/integrations-deploy-on-push), or from the [Console](https://pris.ly/pdp). See [Deployments](/guides/features-2-compute-deployments) for details.

## Get started

- [Deploy your first service](/guides/introduction-5-compute-getting-started): Sign in, deploy a Composer app, and set up deploys on push.

- [Deploy quickstart](/guides/start-prisma-compute-deploy): The short path: declare a new app or bring one you have, then deploy it with Composer.

Declare your app with [Prisma Composer](/guides/build-composer), whether it has one service or several: you describe each service and the databases it depends on in TypeScript, and one deploy provisions them together.

## The model

Compute organizes everything into a few resources:

- A **project** groups one product or codebase.
- A **branch** maps to a Git branch in the linked repository. Each branch is an isolated environment with its own services, environment variables, and deployments, and can have its own database.
- A **service** is an HTTP application, such as a frontend or backend. Each deploy of a service creates a **version**. One version is live at a time.

The default Git branch (usually `main`) is the **production** branch. Every other branch is a **preview** branch with its own Compute resources: services, deployments, and environment variables. Data isolation is yours to configure. A preview deploy reads the preview-scoped variables. If preview work must not touch production data, point the preview `DATABASE_URL` at a non-production database. See [Environment variables](/guides/features-2-compute-environment-variables) for details. After you [set up deploy on push](/guides/integrations-deploy-on-push), pushing to a branch deploys that branch from your repository's GitHub Actions.

The animation below shows how a project, its branches, and their infrastructure fit together, and how each branch's variables resolve by scope:

For the full picture, see [Branching](/guides/features-2-compute-branching).

## CLI and Console

Use the **CLI** for anything you want to repeat: local development, CI, and agent workflows. Every command supports a `--json` flag that switches its output to machine-readable JSON, so scripts and agents can parse results instead of scraping terminal text.

Use the \*\*[Console](https://pris.ly/pdp)\*\* to view and manage projects, branches, services, and deployments in a browser instead of running commands.

## What to read next

Once you have deployed something, read [Deployments](/guides/features-2-compute-deployments) for logs, promoting, and rolling back, and [Environment variables](/guides/features-2-compute-environment-variables) for configuration per scope. [Object storage](/guides/features-2-compute-object-storage) covers S3-compatible Object Store buckets, next to your databases in the same project. The [CLI reference](/guides/reference-3-cli) documents every command and flag. For what Compute can and can't do, read the [known limitations](/guides/more-3-compute-limitations).

## Related pages

- [`Choose a Prisma ORM setup path`](/guides/start-getting-started): Choose the fastest path to try Prisma ORM in a new or existing project.
- [`Console`](/guides/manage-console): Learn how to use the Console to manage and integrate Prisma products into your application.
- [`Deploy the full Prisma stack`](/guides/start-full-stack-tutorial): A single tutorial from empty directory to live URL, with Prisma Composer, Prisma ORM, and Prisma Postgres.
- [`Introduction to Prisma ORM`](/guides/prisma-orm-prisma-orm): Prisma ORM 8 is the current release.
- [`Local development`](/guides/build-local-development): Run the whole Prisma stack on your machine, with your app on Bun, a local Prisma Postgres database, and local object storage.

## Related pages

- [Authentication & Tools](./authentication-tools-index.md)
- [Build](./build-index.md)
- [Changelog](../changelog.md)
- [Concepts](./concepts-index.md)
- [Console commands](./console-commands-index.md)
- [Contract Authoring](./contract-authoring-index.md)
- [Core Concepts](./core-concepts-index.md)
- [Data Modeling](./data-modeling-index.md)
- [Database](./database-index.md)
- [DB commands](./db-commands-index.md)

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