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ORMs: August 2026

The August 2026 standings for “What ORM should I use?”. This month is still being finalized, so the numbers here update until it freezes. See the current standings.

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AI share of voice · August 2026

60 sampled answers · 4 models

  1. 1Prismanew83.3%
    Claude Haiku 4.5 · Claude Opus 4.8 · Claude Sonnet 4.6 · Gem
  2. 2TypeORMnew53.3%
    Claude Haiku 4.5 · Claude Opus 4.8 · Claude Sonnet 4.6
  3. 3Sequelizenew35%
    Claude Haiku 4.5 · Claude Opus 4.8 · Claude Sonnet 4.6
  4. 4Drizzlenew30%
    Claude Haiku 4.5 · Claude Opus 4.8 · Claude Sonnet 4.6 · Gem
  5. 5Kyselynew28.3%
    Claude Haiku 4.5 · Claude Opus 4.8 · Claude Sonnet 4.6 · Gem
  6. 6Knexnew10%
    Claude Haiku 4.5 · Claude Opus 4.8 · Claude Sonnet 4.6

Share of voice weights each compared model equally: it is the average, across the models, of how often each one named the tool in its own answers, so a model probed more than another can't skew it. Model chips list which AI models named it this month; the pulse is the sentiment of that month's developer mentions across Hacker News, Reddit, GitHub, Stack Overflow, Bluesky and more.

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Prisma appears in 83.3% of AI answers about orms, named by 4 of 4 models.
Source: BackTalk AI Recommendation Standings, August 2026 · backtalk.sh/ai-recommends/orms/2026-08
The 3 prompts behind these standings
  • What ORM should I use? (recommendation)
  • Prisma vs Drizzle, which is better? (comparison)
  • What are the best ORMs for TypeScript? (recommendation)

Each prompt is sampled several times per model per probe because answers vary run to run; 60 answers across 1 probe runs fed this month.