--- title: Scaling Prisma applications with Neon read-only replicas description: A guide on using Neon read-only replicas with Prisma to scale database applications. Covers how Neon's architecture differs from traditional Postgres... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/scaling-prisma-applications-with-neon-read-only-replicas-avql0wfty twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Scaling Prisma applications with Neon read-only replicas | daily.dev og:description: A guide on using Neon read-only replicas with Prisma to scale database applications. Covers how Neon's architecture differs from traditional Postgres... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/scaling-prisma-applications-with-neon-read-only-replicas-avql0wfty og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/AVQl0Wfty.png og:image:alt: Scaling Prisma applications with Neon read-only replicas og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Scaling Prisma applications with Neon read-only replicas **[Neon](https://daily.dev/sources/neontech)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A guide on using Neon read-only replicas with Prisma to scale database applications. Covers how Neon's architecture differs from traditional Postgres replication (shared storage instead of WAL-based replication), the benefits of Neon's approach (zero extra storage cost, instant availability, data consistency), and how to set up the @prisma/extension-read-replicas package to route read queries to replicas while keeping writes on the primary compute endpoint. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#postgresql](https://daily.dev/tags/postgresql), [#prisma](https://daily.dev/tags/prisma) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/scaling-prisma-applications-with-neon-read-only-replicas-avql0wfty) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Scaling Prisma applications with Neon read-only replicas","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/scaling-prisma-applications-with-neon-read-only-replicas-avql0wfty","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/scaling-prisma-applications-with-neon-read-only-replicas-avql0wfty"},"datePublished":"2026-07-09T06:58:07.312Z","dateModified":"2026-07-09T07:01:24.842Z","description":"A guide on using Neon read-only replicas with Prisma to scale database applications. Covers how Neon's architecture differs from traditional Postgres...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/f77e43279a3c4e032728971f6b54e8e8?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/f77e43279a3c4e032728971f6b54e8e8?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Neon","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Neon","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--65EDghou--/f_auto/v1724339118/logos/neontech","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/neontech"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/scaling-prisma-applications-with-neon-read-only-replicas-avql0wfty","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"postgresql,prisma","timeRequired":"PT4M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Neon","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/neontech"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Scaling Prisma applications with Neon read-only replicas"}]} ```