Comparison

FastAPI vs Laravel

On the evidence we track, FastAPI leads this comparison with a composite score of 73/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

FastAPI full profile →Laravel full profile →

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★FastAPI73

Laravel56

Attribute comparison across 2 tools
Attribute	FastAPILeader	Laravel
Vioscale score	73 / 100high · 78%	56 / 100high · 75%
Pricing
Free tierpricing.free_tier	✓	✗
Modelpricing.model	commercial	commercial
Price levelpricing.price_level	free	low
Transparentpricing.transparent	-	✓
Integrations
Countintegrations.count	11	7
Security
Disclosure policysecurity.disclosure_policy	-	✓
Gdprsecurity.gdpr	-	✓
Hipaasecurity.hipaa	-	✓
Scorecardsecurity.scorecard	-	5.7
Soc2security.soc2	-	✓
Vulnerabilitiessecurity.vulnerabilities	Count: 2 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=fastapi&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0 · Max severity: HIGH	Count: 3 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=packagist&package_name=laravel%2Flaravel&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0 · Max severity: CRITICAL
Reliability
Status pagereliability.status_page	✓	✓
Adoption
Dependent reposadoption.dependent_repos	43,608	1,166
Github starsadoption.github_stars	101,862	84,875
Package downloads weeklyadoption.package_downloads_weekly	127,838,650	-
Stackoverflow questionsadoption.stackoverflow_questions	31,000	-
Activity
Commits last 30dactivity.commits_last_30d	210	10
Release
Cadence daysrelease.cadence_days	14	7
Historyrelease.history	20 items	20 items
License
Spdxlicense.spdx	MIT	-
Language
Primarylanguage.primary	Python	Blade
Market
Availabilitymarket.availability	Available worldwide · HQ ES	Available worldwide · Popular in US
Content
Faqcontent.faq	8 items	-

Score

Vioscale score

FastAPI73 / 100high · 78%

Laravel56 / 100high · 75%

Pricing

Free tier

FastAPI✓

Laravel✗

Model

FastAPIcommercial

Laravelcommercial

Price level

FastAPIfree

Laravellow

Transparent

FastAPI–

Laravel✓

Integrations

Count

FastAPI11

Laravel7

Security

Disclosure policy

FastAPI–

Laravel✓

Gdpr

FastAPI–

Laravel✓

Hipaa

FastAPI–

Laravel✓

Scorecard

FastAPI–

Laravel5.7

Soc2

FastAPI–

Laravel✓

Vulnerabilities

FastAPICount: 2 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=fastapi&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0 · Max severity: HIGH

LaravelCount: 3 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=packagist&package_name=laravel%2Flaravel&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0 · Max severity: CRITICAL

Reliability

Status page

FastAPI✓

Laravel✓

Adoption

Dependent repos

FastAPI43,608

Laravel1,166

Github stars

FastAPI101,862

Laravel84,875

Package downloads weekly

FastAPI127,838,650

Laravel–

Stackoverflow questions

FastAPI31,000

Laravel–

Activity

Commits last 30d

FastAPI210

Laravel10

Release

Cadence days

FastAPI14

Laravel7

History

FastAPI20 items

Laravel20 items

License

Spdx

FastAPIMIT

Laravel–

Language

Primary

FastAPIPython

LaravelBlade

Market

Availability

FastAPIAvailable worldwide · HQ ES

LaravelAvailable worldwide · Popular in US

Content

Faq

FastAPI8 items

Laravel–

Capabilities

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

Capability comparison for Web Frameworks
Capability	FastAPI	Laravel
Core
Rendering model	-	Hybrid (SSR+SSG+CSR)
File-based routing	-	✓
Language	Python	PHP
Rendering
Server components	-	✗
Streaming SSR	-	-
Fullstack
Built-in API / backend routes	✓	✓
DX
First-class TypeScript	-	✗
Fast refresh / HMR	✓	-
Deployment
Edge runtime support	-	-

Core

Rendering model

FastAPI-

LaravelHybrid (SSR+SSG+CSR)

File-based routing

FastAPI-

Laravel✓

Language

FastAPIPython

LaravelPHP

Rendering

Server components

FastAPI-

Laravel✗

Streaming SSR

FastAPI-

Laravel-

Fullstack

Built-in API / backend routes

FastAPI✓

Laravel✓

First-class TypeScript

FastAPI-

Laravel✗

Fast refresh / HMR

FastAPI✓

Laravel-

Deployment

Edge runtime support

FastAPI-

Laravel-

What each one is

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

FastAPI

Leader

FastAPI is a modern web framework for constructing APIs in Python that combines high performance with developer convenience through automatic validation, interactive documentation generation, and first-class type hint support.

Independently observed

Laravel

A batteries-included PHP web application framework that enables developers and AI agents to build and ship web apps at high speed with opinionated conventions.

Independently observed

Pricing

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

FastAPI

Leader

Open sourceFree tier

as of 2026-08-14verify ↗

Laravel

from $5/moHybrid

From $5/month plus usage. First month free on Starter.

Starter$5/month plus usage, first month free
- Unlimited applications, environments, builds, & users
- Scale-to-Zero Flex compute
- Spending limits and alerts
- 1 managed queue per environment
- DDoS mitigation
- +3 more
Growth$20/month plus usage
- All Starter features
- Pro compute
- Autoscaling up to 10× replicas
- Preview environments
- Worker clusters
- +5 more
Business$200/month plus usage
- All Growth features
- Unlimited + scheduled autoscaling
- Unlimited managed queues
- Advanced WAF
- Largest compute and resource sizes
- +4 more
EnterpriseContact sales
- All Business features
- Private networking
- Dedicated compute
- RDS databases & VPC peering (Private Cloud only)
- 24/7 incident response
- +2 more

as of 2026-08-13verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platform and deployment support comparison
Supports	FastAPI	Laravel
WebPlatforms	✓	✓
CLIPlatforms	✓	✓
Cloud / SaaSDeployment	✓	✓
Self-hostedDeployment	✓	✗

Platforms

Web

FastAPI✓

Laravel✓

CLI

FastAPI✓

Laravel✓

Deployment

Cloud / SaaS

FastAPI✓

Laravel✓

Self-hosted

FastAPI✓

Laravel✗

Integrations

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

FastAPI

Leader

11 total

Starlette
Pydantic
OpenAPI
JSON Schema
Swagger UI
ReDoc
OAuth2
JWT
HTTP Basic authentication
Cookies
Session management

Independently observed

Laravel

7 total

GitHub Actions
Redis
Cursor
Claude Code
Neon
Valkey
Composer

Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.