# Kysely

> MIT type-safe TypeScript SQL query builder

**Category:** Databases  
**Pricing:** open-source  
**URL:** https://kysely.dev  
**GitHub:** https://github.com/kysely-org/kysely  
**Added:** 2026-09-07

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## The Hook

Kysely is SQL you still control, with compile-time table and column types — not another ORM.

## What's Good

MIT. Postgres/MySQL/SQLite/MSSQL dialects, migrations, autocompletion that mirrors real SQL.

## The Catch

You own the Database interface (or codegen it). No schema designer, no magic relations like Prisma.

## Verdict

MIT typed SQL builder. Free forever when you want SQL back without losing TS.