Which Drizzle ORM alternatives are still actively developed?

Goose (newest commit 7 Oct 2026). Those dates are the newest commit on each project's default branch, read from the GitHub API on the date shown at the top of this page. We read the default branch rather than the repository's push timestamp, because a push to any branch moves the second one and makes a finished project look active.

How many Drizzle ORM alternatives do you track?

We name 9 on this page. 2 carry judgments and prices we read and quoted, 1 carry live repository data with no judgment yet, and 6 are catalogue entries we have not researched. We say which is which on every row rather than presenting all of them as reviewed.

Best Drizzle ORM alternatives (2026)

Drizzle ORM is a database/BaaS: TypeScript ORM with SQL-like syntax for Postgres MySQL and SQLite. We name 9 alternatives below.

Quick answer

Of the 9 alternatives here, 2 have been researched claim by claim. Start with Goose.

Choose Goose when: Automate work that is not coding — research, writing, data analysis — on the same machine and the same agent, through the desktop app, the CLI or the API. [github.com/aaif-goose/goose]

It costs: goose charges nothing for itself; you pay whichever provider you configure, and it accepts a ChatGPT Plus or Pro subscription in place of an API key. [goose-docs.ai/docs/getting-started]

How this list is ordered. Tools whose claims we have read and quoted come first, then tools whose repository we track, then catalogue entries we have not researched. Within each band the order is category and workflow overlap. A tool that has stopped is never the first answer. We publish no score out of five: every claim here traces to a source, and a number we could not justify would undermine the ones that can.

2 researched alternatives to Drizzle ORM

Goose

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What it is: goose is the only agent in this set governed by a foundation rather than a vendor, and it can borrow an existing Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini subscription over the Agent Client Protocol instead of an API key. [github.com/aaif-goose/goose]

Where it hurts: Model choice is not free: goose leans on tool calling, so a weak or local model degrades it, and the vendor names Claude 4 as the model it works best with. [goose-docs.ai/docs/getting-started]

Price: goose charges nothing for itself; you pay whichever provider you configure, and it accepts a ChatGPT Plus or Pro subscription in place of an API key. [goose-docs.ai/docs/getting-started]

Stars: 55,064; Verified 8 Oct 2026
Last commit: 7 Oct 2026; 0 days old when we read it; Verified 8 Oct 2026
License: Apache-2.0; Verified 8 Oct 2026

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Continue

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What it is: Continue has stopped: its own README marks the repository read-only for all users after a final 2.0.0 release of the VS Code extension, the CLI and the JetBrains plugin. [github.com/continuedev/continue]

Choose Continue when: Read a complete Apache-2.0 implementation of an IDE coding agent: the VS Code extension, the CLI and the JetBrains plugin are all in one tree. [github.com/continuedev/continue]

Where it hurts: No fix will ever land: the repository is read-only, so any bug you hit is a bug you carry or fork. [github.com/continuedev/continue]

Price: Continue costs nothing and no longer sells anything: the final release pulled authentication out of the product. [github.com/continuedev/continue]

Continue is finished, not slowing: the repository is read-only, the last release is v2.1.0-vscode on 2026-06-19, and the newest commit on the default branch is 2026-07-21.

Stars: 36,154; Verified 8 Oct 2026
Last commit: 21 Jul 2026; 79 days old when we read it; Verified 8 Oct 2026
License: Apache-2.0; Verified 8 Oct 2026

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Drizzle ORM alternatives at a glance

Tool	Price	State	Newest commit
Goose	stated, no figure	Active	7 Oct 2026
Continue	stated, no figure	Finished	21 Jul 2026
Supabase	not verified	Active	8 Oct 2026

Also close, not yet researched

These match Drizzle ORM by category and workflow, and we have not read their vendor pages. We publish no judgment and no price for them, because we have no source to put beside one.

SupabaseOpen-source Firebase alternative with Postgres auth storage realtime and edge functionsRepository tracked
FirebaseGoogle full BaaS with Firestore Realtime DB auth hosting and cloud functionsCatalogue entry
NeonServerless Postgres with branching scale-to-zero and instant provisioningCatalogue entry
PlanetScaleServerless MySQL and Postgres with horizontal sharding and zero-downtime migrationsCatalogue entry
MongoDB AtlasManaged MongoDB with serverless scaling search and vector database capabilitiesCatalogue entry
ConvexTypeScript-native reactive database with built-in realtime sync and serverless functionsCatalogue entry
UpstashServerless Redis and Kafka with per-request pricing and global replicationCatalogue entry

Questions people ask

What is the best alternative to Drizzle ORM?: Goose is the one we can answer for in full. Automate work that is not coding — research, writing, data analysis — on the same machine and the same agent, through the desktop app, the CLI or the API. goose charges nothing for itself; you pay whichever provider you configure, and it accepts a ChatGPT Plus or Pro subscription in place of an API key. Every part of that answer is quoted from a page we read; the links are on this page beside each claim.
Which Drizzle ORM alternatives are still actively developed?: Goose (newest commit 7 Oct 2026). Those dates are the newest commit on each project's default branch, read from the GitHub API on the date shown at the top of this page. We read the default branch rather than the repository's push timestamp, because a push to any branch moves the second one and makes a finished project look active.
Are any of these Drizzle ORM alternatives dead?: Continue: Continue is finished, not slowing: the repository is read-only, the last release is v2.1.0-vscode on 2026-06-19, and the newest commit on the default branch is 2026-07-21..
How many Drizzle ORM alternatives do you track?: We name 9 on this page. 2 carry judgments and prices we read and quoted, 1 carry live repository data with no judgment yet, and 6 are catalogue entries we have not researched. We say which is which on every row rather than presenting all of them as reviewed.

How we check this page

Stars, licences, the newest commit on each default branch and the latest stable release are read from the GitHub API, and each one shows the day it was last confirmed rather than the day this page was built. Every judgment and every price is quoted from a page we read, and that page is linked beside the claim. Where a link is missing we wrote no claim. We have researched 2 of the 9 tools named here.