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Drizzle ORM
A lightweight TypeScript ORM that stays close to SQL.
NOT REALLY
why this verdict
Keep it — Anthropic has not replaced it
Anthropic's version overlaps, but does not finish the dev tools job, so this one is still worth keeping open.
- A named launch, not a vibe named, unlinked
- AI writes raw SQL well enough to skip an ORM entirely. Anthropic, January 1, 2025 — no announcement link recorded yet.
- How much of the job it covers not the job editorial call
- Parts of it. The job still needs the tool to get finished.
- Is there a free way to do it? yes
- 2 of 2 listed replacements have a usable free tier: Prisma and Kysely.
- What the call is worth nothing to cancel
- No paid entry tier tracked, so there is no subscription to cancel.
Reason composed from the fields above missing: announcement linked recorded: free replacement listed recorded: two or more escape hatches
- Threatened by
- Anthropic
- Since
- January 1, 2025
- List price
- free
- Per year
- —
The backstory
Drizzle took share from Prisma by being thin: no separate schema language, no query engine binary, and generated types that let an AI-written query fail at compile time rather than in production. Models write SQL fine — the value is the type checking around it.
Escape hatches
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Prisma More tooling, heavier runtime.
prisma.io open_in_new K 
Kysely Type-safe query builder, no ORM.
kysely.dev open_in_new2 of 2 replacements have a usable free tier.
