Alternatives

kysely alternatives

8 packages that do the same job as kysely: @prisma/client, drizzle-kit, drizzle-zod, drizzle-seed, @mikro-orm/migrations, typeorm, typeorm-extension, sequelize-typescript. Figures below are from npm, GitHub and Bundlephobia.

Data as of 25 Sept 2026

kysely and 8 alternatives compared

Package	Weekly downloads	12-month change	Gzip	Dependencies	Last release	Module	Types	Runtimes
kysely This package	12m	+1153%	-	0	9 days ago	ESM only	None	-
@prisma/client	11.8m	+235%	-	1	30 days ago	ESM + CommonJS	Bundled	-
drizzle-kit	13.6m	+754%	-	4	3 days ago	ESM + CommonJS	Bundled	-
drizzle-zod	2.2m	+212%	-	0	1 year ago	ESM + CommonJS	Bundled	-
drizzle-seed	234.2k	+246%	-	1	1 year ago	ESM + CommonJS	Bundled	-
@mikro-orm/migrations	391.3k	-	-	1	5 days ago	ESM only	Bundled	-
typeorm	3.6m	+55%	-	10	23 days ago	ESM + CommonJS	Bundled	-
typeorm-extension	124.3k	+27%	-	6	1 day ago	ESM only	Bundled	-
sequelize-typescript	373.9k	+25%	-	1	2 years ago	CommonJS	Bundled	-

12-month change compares the average of the last 4 weeks of downloads with the first 4 weeks of the 52-week series. Gzip size is for the whole package (Bundlephobia). Runtimes are taken from each package's own documentation; "-" means not recorded.

@prisma/client

Prisma Client is an auto-generated, type-safe and modern JavaScript/TypeScript ORM for Node.js that's tailored to your data. Supports PostgreSQL, CockroachDB, MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, SQLite & MongoDB databases.

Compared with kysely

About the same weekly downloads (11.8m vs 12m)
1 dependency vs 0
ESM + CommonJS vs ESM only
Bundled types vs no types
Declares Node.js ^20.19 || ^22.12 || >=24.0 vs Node.js >=22.0.0
Last release 25 Aug 2026 vs 16 Sept 2026
3.3x more GitHub stars (47.7k vs 14.2k)

@prisma/client package page kysely vs @prisma/client

drizzle-kit

Drizzle Kit is a CLI migrator tool for Drizzle ORM. It is probably the one and only tool that lets you completely automatically generate SQL migrations and covers ~95% of the common cases like deletions and renames by prompting user input. <https://github

Compared with kysely

1.1x more weekly downloads (13.6m vs 12m)
4 dependencies vs 0
ESM + CommonJS vs ESM only
Bundled types vs no types
Declares no Node.js engine range vs Node.js >=22.0.0
Last release 21 Sept 2026 vs 16 Sept 2026
2.5x more GitHub stars (35.9k vs 14.2k)

drizzle-kit package page

drizzle-zod

Generate Zod schemas from Drizzle ORM schemas

Compared with kysely

5.5x fewer weekly downloads (2.2m vs 12m)
ESM + CommonJS vs ESM only
Bundled types vs no types
Declares no Node.js engine range vs Node.js >=22.0.0
Last release 6 Aug 2025 vs 16 Sept 2026
2.5x more GitHub stars (35.9k vs 14.2k)

drizzle-zod package page

drizzle-seed

A package to seed your database using Drizzle ORM

Compared with kysely

51x fewer weekly downloads (234.2k vs 12m)
1 dependency vs 0
ESM + CommonJS vs ESM only
Bundled types vs no types
Declares no Node.js engine range vs Node.js >=22.0.0
Last release 29 Jan 2025 vs 16 Sept 2026
2.5x more GitHub stars (35.9k vs 14.2k)

drizzle-seed package page

@mikro-orm/migrations

TypeScript ORM for Node.js based on Data Mapper, Unit of Work and Identity Map patterns. Supports MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite databases as well as usage with vanilla JavaScript.