# Prisma ORM

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:::card{title="Prisma ORM" href="/guides/prisma-orm-prisma-orm"}
Create a Prisma ORM app, create a Prisma Postgres database, initialize it, and run your first query.
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:::card{title="Release status" href="/guides/prisma-orm-orm-release-status"}
Prisma ORM 8 is a release candidate, with general availability expected in October 2026. What npm installs today, how long Prisma ORM 7 is supported and Prisma ORM 6 receives security patches, and how to stay on version 7.
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:::card{title="Supported databases (/docs/orm/supported-databases)" href="/guides/prisma-orm-orm-supported-databases"}
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:::card{title="create-prisma" href="/guides/prisma-orm-create-prisma"}
Use npm create prisma\@latest to create a Prisma ORM app from a framework template, pick PostgreSQL or MongoDB, choose PSL or TypeScript contract authoring, and deploy to Prisma.
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:::card{title="From scratch" href="/guides/prisma-orm-from-scratch"}
Add Prisma ORM 8 to an empty Node.js project without a template: install two packages, write prisma.config.ts and a contract, create the table, query it from one index.ts, and apply a migration.
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## 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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