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Comment by gigatexal | Hacker News Reader

I don’t understand the free pricing tier:

$18 /million queries, 60k included

60k queries are free and then the 60_001st starts incurring costs at 18/1_000_000 per query?

> 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.

Nvm answered further down in the thread by eampiart

Our pricing for Prisma Postgres indeed presents a bit of a mental shift compared to traditional database providers:

We charge for query volume, not for compute!

We believe that ultimately this is a more intuitive way for developers to think about database cost.

Generally, our goal is that developers need to only think about _queries_ — we'll take care of everything else to make sure those queries can run efficiently. Developers shouldn't need to worry about compute, scaling, downtime, etc.

How about the scenario where I do a select … where … on a view and that view is defined to have 5 CTEs on different tables and then a final select doing some complex stuff there.

Is that billed as one query or 6?

That would be billed as a single query. We think this is a much simpler way to reason about your cost compared to counting rows scanned, CPU time consumed or something more granular like that.

If your query is very expensive, it will take longer to complete, and that will be a signal to you the developer to simplify your query or identify an index that can help speed it up. Prisma Optimise will help you identify and improve such queries.

While I think as an arm-chair business wonk y’all should count it as 6 queries and not 1 as a payer and consumer I’m even more likely to use it now that you count us as only a single query. :-)

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