I'm going to make some Prisma fans angry. That's fine.

I shipped my last three SaaS projects on Next.js + Vercel + Postgres. The first two used Prisma because that's what every tutorial recommends. The third one I switched to Drizzle.

Cold start on a fresh deploy:


Prisma: 2.8 seconds
Drizzle: 180 milliseconds


That's not a typo. That's the...