Comparison

AdonisJS vs Laravel

No clear leader: Laravel (65.5) and AdonisJS (62.2) 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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AdonisJS62
Laravel66
Score
vioscaleAI score
AdonisJS62 / 100high · 77%
Laravel66 / 100high · 75%
Pricing
Free tier
AdonisJS✓
Laravel✓
Model
AdonisJScommercial
Laravelfreemium
Price level
AdonisJSfree
Laravellow
Starting price
AdonisJS–
Laravel$5
Transparent
AdonisJS✓
Laravel✓
Integrations
Count
AdonisJS4
Laravel16
Reliability
Status page
AdonisJS–
Laravel✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
AdonisJS1,234
Laravel1,166
Github stars
AdonisJS19,142
Laravel85,054
Package downloads weekly
AdonisJS193,052
Laravel–
Activity
Commits last 30d
AdonisJS8
Laravel8
Release
Cadence days
AdonisJS11
Laravel7
History
AdonisJS20 items
Laravel20 items
License
Spdx
AdonisJSMIT
Laravel–
Language
Primary
AdonisJSTypeScript
LaravelBlade
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
AdonisJS6 items
Laravel7 items

Capabilities

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

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

What each one is

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

AdonisJS

A complete backend framework for Node.js applications that provides integrated components for user authentication, database management, data validation, email delivery, task queues, caching, and testing. It aims to reduce setup overhead by including these capabilities as built-in features rather than requiring separate configuration and integration.

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.

AdonisJS

from $500/moOpen sourceFree tier

Open source framework; professional support at $500/month

  • Professional Support$500/month
    • Direct access to creator (Harminder Virk)
    • Private Slack channel
    • 24-hour guaranteed email response
    • Architecture consultations
    • Performance optimization
    • +4 more
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
AdonisJS✓
Laravel✓
CLI
AdonisJS✓
Laravel✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
AdonisJS✓
Laravel✓
Self-hosted
AdonisJS✓
Laravel✓
On-premise
AdonisJS✗
Laravel✓
Hybrid
AdonisJS✗
Laravel✓

Integrations

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

In common (1)
  • Redis

AdonisJS

9 total - 8 not shared
  • Inertia
  • Vite
  • Tanstack React Query
  • Cloudflare
  • Amazon S3
  • Cloudflare R2
  • Google Cloud Storage
  • Playwright
Independently observed

Laravel

26 total - 25 not shared
  • GitHub Actions
  • 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
  • PhpStorm
  • +1 more
Independently observed
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