🚨 Need Help: Prisma Postgres is generating 14M+ operations with only 1 user
Need Help: Prisma Postgres is generating 14M+ operations with only 1 user — $122 last month, likely $500 this monthHey everyone,
I really need some help understanding what's going on.
I'm not a developer — I built my project together with a developer, but I’m starting to think he might not fully understand what's happening under the hood. I’m using Prisma ORM + Prisma Postgres as my database.
Here’s the issue:
* Last month I was charged $122 for Prisma Postgres operations.
* When I checked the logs, I saw 14,091,390 operations for the month.
* This month (only December 7th), I’m already at 10,500,000 operations.
* At this pace, I’m probably heading towards $400–$500 this month, even though I have literally 1 user in my system.
Something feels extremely wrong.
I don’t have any traffic, and the system is basically idle except for my own testing. So I’m assuming there is:
* a loop somewhere
* or a polling issue
* or an endpoint hitting the DB nonstop
* or some kind of misconfiguration
But I really don’t know how to identify it myself because I’m not a developer.
I’m hoping someone here can help me understand:
1. What could cause this many operations with only 1 user and almost no activity?
2. Where should I look inside Prisma logs / Vercel logs to pinpoint the problem?
3. Should I consider switching away from Prisma Postgres to another Postgres provider, since the pay-per-operation model is becoming too expensive for me at this stage?
I appreciate any guidance — I really like Prisma, but something about this usage pattern and billing feels off, and I don’t know what to do next.
Thank you!
Prisma Postgres