Comparison

Fastify vs Laravel

On the evidence we track, Fastify leads this comparison with a composite score of 64/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

Fastify full profile →Laravel full profile →

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★Fastify64

Laravel56

Attribute comparison across 2 tools
Attribute	FastifyLeader	Laravel
Vioscale score	64 / 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	17	7
Security
Disclosure policysecurity.disclosure_policy	-	✓
Gdprsecurity.gdpr	-	✓
Hipaasecurity.hipaa	-	✓
Scorecardsecurity.scorecard	8.3	5.7
Soc2security.soc2	-	✓
Vulnerabilitiessecurity.vulnerabilities	Count: 10 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=npm&package_name=fastify&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 5 · 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	16,712	1,166
Github starsadoption.github_stars	37,024	84,875
Activity
Commits last 30dactivity.commits_last_30d	69	10
Release
Cadence daysrelease.cadence_days	3	7
Historyrelease.history	20 items	20 items
License
Spdxlicense.spdx	MIT	-
Language
Primarylanguage.primary	JavaScript	Blade
Market
Availabilitymarket.availability	-	Available worldwide · Popular in US

Score

Vioscale score

Fastify64 / 100high · 78%

Laravel56 / 100high · 75%

Pricing

Free tier

Fastify✓

Laravel✗

Model

Fastifycommercial

Laravelcommercial

Price level

Fastifyfree

Laravellow

Transparent

Fastify–

Laravel✓

Integrations

Count

Fastify17

Laravel7

Security

Disclosure policy

Fastify–

Laravel✓

Gdpr

Fastify–

Laravel✓

Hipaa

Fastify–

Laravel✓

Scorecard

Fastify8.3

Laravel5.7

Soc2

Fastify–

Laravel✓

Vulnerabilities

FastifyCount: 10 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=npm&package_name=fastify&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 5 · 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

Fastify–

Laravel✓

Adoption

Dependent repos

Fastify16,712

Laravel1,166

Github stars

Fastify37,024

Laravel84,875

Activity

Commits last 30d

Fastify69

Laravel10

Release

Cadence days

Fastify3

Laravel7

History

Fastify20 items

Laravel20 items

License

Spdx

FastifyMIT

Laravel–

Language

Primary

FastifyJavaScript

LaravelBlade

Market

Availability

Fastify–

LaravelAvailable worldwide · Popular in US

Capabilities

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

Capability comparison for Web Frameworks
Capability	Fastify	Laravel
Core
Rendering model	-	Hybrid (SSR+SSG+CSR)
File-based routing	-	✓
Language	JavaScript/TypeScript	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

Fastify-

LaravelHybrid (SSR+SSG+CSR)

File-based routing

Fastify-

Laravel✓

Language

FastifyJavaScript/TypeScript

LaravelPHP

Rendering

Server components

Fastify-

Laravel✗

Streaming SSR

Fastify-

Laravel-

Fullstack

Built-in API / backend routes

Fastify✓

Laravel✓

First-class TypeScript

Fastify✓

Laravel✗

Fast refresh / HMR

Fastify-

Laravel-

Deployment

Edge runtime support

Fastify-

Laravel-

What each one is

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

Fastify

Leader

A Node.js web framework optimized to handle high request volumes with minimal overhead, featuring a plugin system, JSON Schema validation, and native TypeScript 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.

Fastify

Leader

Open sourceFree tier

as of 2026-08-16verify ↗

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	Fastify	Laravel
WebPlatforms	-	✓
CLIPlatforms	-	✓
Cloud / SaaSDeployment	✗	✓
Self-hostedDeployment	✓	✗

Platforms

Web

Fastify–

Laravel✓

CLI

Fastify–

Laravel✓

Deployment

Cloud / SaaS

Fastify✗

Laravel✓

Self-hosted

Fastify✓

Laravel✗

Integrations

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

In common (1)

Redis

Fastify

Leader

17 total - 16 not shared

Next.js
Apollo Server
Angular
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Elasticsearch
Swagger/OpenAPI
WebSocket
JWT
Helmet
Sentry
RabbitMQ
CORS
CSRF
OAuth2
Kubernetes

Independently observed

Laravel

7 total - 6 not shared

GitHub Actions
Cursor
Claude Code
Neon
Valkey
Composer

Independently observed

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