Comparison

Actix vs Laravel

No clear leader: Laravel (65.5) and Actix (62.5) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

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Actix63
Laravel66
Score
vioscaleAI score
Actix63 / 100high · 79%
Laravel66 / 100high · 75%
Pricing
Free tier
Actix–
Laravel✓
Model
Price level
Actixfree
Laravellow
Starting price
Actix–
Laravel$5
Transparent
Actix–
Laravel✓
Integrations
Count
Actix4
Laravel16
Reliability
Status page
Actix–
Laravel✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
Actix6,843
Laravel1,166
Github stars
Actix24,857
Laravel85,054
Activity
Commits last 30d
Actix84
Laravel8
Release
Cadence days
Actix1
Laravel7
History
Laravel20 items
License
Spdx
Laravel–
Language
Primary
ActixRust
LaravelBlade
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Actix–
Laravel7 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for web frameworks. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Core
Rendering model
Actix-
LaravelHybrid (SSR+SSG+CSR)
File-based routing
Actix-
Laravel✓
Language
ActixRust
LaravelPHP
Rendering
Server components
Actix-
Laravel✗
Streaming SSR
Actix✓
Laravel-
Fullstack
Built-in API / backend routes
Actix✓
Laravel✓
DX
First-class TypeScript
Actix-
Laravel✗
Fast refresh / HMR
Actix-
Laravel-
Deployment
Edge runtime support
Actix-
Laravel-

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Actix

A high-performance web framework for Rust that supports streaming responses, request routing, HTTP client capabilities, and integrations with popular databases and ORMs.

Independently observed

Laravel

A PHP web framework offering pre-built functionality for routing, database operations, queuing, authentication, and testing, with expressive syntax designed to streamline web application development.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Actix

Open source
as of verify ↗

Laravel

from $5/moHybridFree tier30-day trial

From $5/month with included usage credits; pay-as-you-go for additional resources

  • Starter$5/month with $5 monthly usage credit included
    • Deploy repositories in seconds
    • Unlimited applications and environments
    • Scale to zero when idle
    • Spending limits and alerts
    • DDoS mitigation
    • +1 more
  • Growth$20/month plus usage
    • Unlimited preview environments
    • Worker clusters for distributed processing
    • 10 managed queues per environment
    • Basic Web Application Firewall
    • Team roles and permissions
  • Business$200/month plus usage
    • Scheduled autoscaling
    • Unlimited managed queues
    • Advanced Web Application Firewall
    • Largest compute and storage sizes
    • 250 custom domains
    • +2 more
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • Dedicated compute infrastructure
    • Custom AWS integrations (RDS, Aurora, DSQL, ElastiCache)
    • VPC peering and private cloud
    • 24/7 incident response
    • Volume discounts and custom contracts
    • +1 more
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Actix✓
Laravel✓
CLI
Actix✗
Laravel✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Actix–
Laravel✓
Self-hosted
Actix–
Laravel✓
On-premise
Actix–
Laravel✓
Hybrid
Actix–
Laravel✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Actix

4 total
  • MongoDB
  • Diesel
  • SQLite
  • Postgres
Independently observed

Laravel

26 total
  • GitHub Actions
  • Redis
  • Cursor
  • Claude Code
  • Neon
  • Valkey
  • Composer
  • AWS EC2
  • AWS RDS
  • AWS Aurora
  • AWS DSQL
  • AWS ElastiCache
  • Laravel Nova
  • Laravel Reverb
  • Laravel Valkey
  • Grafana
  • Lago
  • Symfony
  • GitHub
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • OpenAI
  • Anthropic
  • Google Gemini
  • +2 more
Independently observed
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