# Prisma Client (Prisma ORM v7) (/docs/orm/v7/prisma-client)

Prisma Client is Prisma ORM's generated, type-safe query builder for Node.js, Bun, and Deno applications.

Location: ORM > v7 > Prisma Client

Prisma Client is Prisma ORM's generated query builder. It is tailored to your schema, fully typed, and designed to make common database work feel like ordinary application code.

## What Prisma Client gives you

- Typed query methods based on your models
- Autocomplete for filters, relations, ordering, and nested writes
- Predictable plain JavaScript objects as query results
- A single client API that works across PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB, and more

## Quick start

### 1. Define a generator in your schema

```prisma title="schema.prisma"
generator client {
  provider = "prisma-client"
  output   = "./generated"
}
```

### 2. Install Prisma Client

#### bun

```bash
bun add @prisma/client@7
```

#### pnpm

```bash
pnpm add @prisma/client@7
```

#### yarn

```bash
yarn add @prisma/client@7
```

#### npm

```bash
npm install @prisma/client@7
```

### 3. Generate the client

#### bun

```bash
bunx prisma generate
```

#### pnpm

```bash
pnpm prisma generate
```

#### yarn

```bash
yarn prisma generate
```

#### npm

```bash
npx prisma generate
```

If you want more detail on this step, see [Generating Prisma Client](/guides/prisma-client-v7-setup-and-configuration-generating-prisma-client).

### 4. Import and use the generated client

```ts
import { PrismaClient } from "./generated/client";

const prisma = new PrismaClient();

const users = await prisma.user.findMany();
```

## Common tasks

- [Set up and configure Prisma Client](/guides/prisma-client-v7-setup-and-configuration-introduction)
- [Generate Prisma Client](/guides/prisma-client-v7-setup-and-configuration-generating-prisma-client)
- [Run CRUD queries](/guides/prisma-client-v7-queries-crud)
- [Work with relations](/guides/prisma-client-v7-queries-relation-queries)
- [Use transactions](/guides/prisma-client-v7-queries-transactions)
- [Use raw SQL when you need it](/guides/prisma-client-v7-using-raw-sql)

## Related reference docs

- [Prisma Client API reference](/guides/reference-6-v7-reference-prisma-client-reference)
- [Prisma schema generators](/guides/prisma-schema-v7-overview-generators)
- [Prisma CLI generate command](/guides/standalone-commands-generate)

## Related pages

- [`Overview of Prisma Migrate`](/guides/prisma-migrate-v7-prisma-migrate): Learn how Prisma Migrate keeps your database schema in sync with your Prisma schema

## 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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