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drizzle-orm vs sequelize

ORMs and query buildersPackage data 25 Sept 2026
drizzle-ormv0.45.3, 21 Sept 2026

Drizzle ORM package for SQL databases

$ npm install drizzle-orm
sequelizev6.37.8, 7 Mar 2026

Sequelize is a promise-based Node.js ORM tool for Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, Microsoft SQL Server, Amazon Redshift and Snowflake’s Data Cloud. It features solid transaction support, relations, eager and lazy loading, read replication and more.

$ npm install sequelize
Metricdrizzle-ormsequelizeDifference
Weekly downloads16,294,6562,007,420drizzle-orm 8.1x higher
12-month download growth+710%+5%drizzle-orm +705 pts
Gzip size---
Minified size---
Dependencies016sequelize 16 more
Unpacked size10.0 MB2.8 MBsequelize 3.6x smaller
Latest release0.45.3, 21 Sept 20266.37.8, 7 Mar 2026drizzle-orm 7 months more recent
Releases, last 12 months61drizzle-orm 5 more
First published9 Sept 20213 May 2011sequelize 10.4 years earlier
GitHub stars35,89130,362drizzle-orm +18%
Open issues1,378932drizzle-orm 446 more
Open pull requests688160drizzle-orm 528 more
Contributors---
Commits, last 52 weeks67360sequelize 5.4x higher
TypeScript typesBundledBundledSame
Module formatESM + CommonJSESM + CommonJSSame
Runtimes---
LicenseApache-2.0MITDiffers

Green marks the smaller size or the more recent release. Bold marks the higher count, with no judgement implied. Sizes are for the whole package per Bundlephobia. Growth compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the 52-week series.

drizzle-orm16.3m latest weeksequelize2m latest week
Week of 23 Sept 2025Week of 15 Sept 2026
Weekly npm downloads, 52 weeks. Y axis starts at zero. Values are not smoothed.

drizzle-orm

Major versions
  1. 0.9.09 Sept 2021
Last 5 releases
  1. 0.45.321 Sept 2026
  2. 0.45.227 Mar 2026
  3. 0.45.110 Dec 2025
  4. 0.45.04 Dec 2025
  5. 0.44.723 Oct 2025
210 releases in total, 6 in the last 12 months

sequelize

Major versions
  1. 0.4.13 May 2011
  2. 1.0.03 May 2011
  3. 2.0.010 Feb 2015
  4. 3.0.017 May 2015
  5. 4.0.07 Jun 2017
  6. 5.1.013 Mar 2019
  7. 6.1.024 Jun 2020
Last 5 releases
  1. 6.37.87 Mar 2026
  2. 6.37.728 Mar 2025
  3. 6.37.64 Mar 2025
  4. 6.37.525 Oct 2024
  5. 6.37.44 Oct 2024
517 releases in total, 1 in the last 12 months
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  • Need no runtime dependenciesdrizzle-orm (drizzle-orm has 0, sequelize has 16)
  • Module formatBoth ESM + CommonJS
  • Need TypeScript types in the package itselfBoth
  • Node.js version requirementdrizzle-orm: none declared; sequelize: >=10.0.0 (engines field in package.json)
  • Need the more recent releasedrizzle-orm (0.45.3 on 21 Sept 2026 vs 6.37.8 on 7 Mar 2026)
  • Higher weekly npm downloadsdrizzle-orm (16.3m vs 2m)
  • Licensedrizzle-orm: Apache-2.0; sequelize: MIT

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