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Do AI agents pick Kysely?

How often agents choose Kysely when a developer needs database & orm — measured across Claude, GPT, Gemini.

Kysely

#5 of 6 database
2%Pick Rate
95% CI 1%4%

When developers ask an AI agent for database, Kysely is picked 2% of the time — ranking #5 of 6 measured across Claude, GPT, Gemini.

Picked 2% Named, not picked 16% Never surfaced 82%

Beaten by Prisma (21%), TypeORM (10%), Mongoose (8%), Drizzle ORM (6%).

Awareness

0 docs in FineWeb (10BT sample) · 40 URLs in Common Crawl

In the raw web crawl, but thin in the filtered corpus models actually train on — an awareness gap at the source.

AdoptionDid the pick convert to installs? Public Adoption = npm downloads of your packages. The proof half of the funnel.

33.3M installs / month ▲ 53% MoM

Growing despite a low Pick Rate — winning the agent pick is upside, not a dependency.

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About Kysely

A type-safe SQL query builder for TypeScript.

Kysely lets developers write SQL queries in TypeScript with full type safety, catching errors at compile time rather than runtime. It is aimed at TypeScript developers who want direct control over SQL without sacrificing type checking — sitting between raw SQL and a full ORM.

Where to start

Install Kysely along with the dialect package for your database (PostgreSQL, MySQL, or SQLite), then define your database schema as TypeScript types to enable autocomplete and type checking across all queries.

Install

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