Comparison

Laravel vs Ruby on Rails

On the evidence we track, Ruby on Rails leads this comparison with a composite score of 67/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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Laravel56

★Ruby on Rails67

Attribute comparison across 2 tools
Attribute	Laravel	Ruby on RailsLeader
Vioscale score	56 / 100high · 75%updating	67 / 100medium · 52%updating
Pricing
Free tierpricing.free_tier	✗	✓
Modelpricing.model	commercial	open_source
Price levelpricing.price_level	low	free
Transparentpricing.transparent	✓	-
Integrations
Countintegrations.count	7	-
Security
Disclosure policysecurity.disclosure_policy	✓	✓
Gdprsecurity.gdpr	✓	-
Hipaasecurity.hipaa	✓	-
Scorecardsecurity.scorecard	5.7	6.8
Soc2security.soc2	✓	-
Vulnerabilitiessecurity.vulnerabilities	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	Count: 18 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=rubygems&package_name=activesupport&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 3 · Max severity: CRITICAL
Reliability
Status pagereliability.status_page	✓	-
Adoption
Dependent reposadoption.dependent_repos	1,166	1,358,186
Github starsadoption.github_stars	84,875	58,719
Activity
Commits last 30dactivity.commits_last_30d	10	100
Release
Cadence daysrelease.cadence_days	7	-
Historyrelease.history	20 items	20 items
License
Spdxlicense.spdx	-	MIT
Language
Primarylanguage.primary	Blade	Ruby
Market
Availabilitymarket.availability	Available worldwide · Popular in US	-

Score

Vioscale score

Laravel56 / 100high · 75%updating

Ruby on Rails67 / 100medium · 52%updating

Pricing

Free tier

Laravel✗

Ruby on Rails✓

Model

Laravelcommercial

Ruby on Railsopen_source

Price level

Laravellow

Ruby on Railsfree

Transparent

Laravel✓

Ruby on Rails–

Integrations

Count

Laravel7

Ruby on Rails–

Security

Disclosure policy

Laravel✓

Ruby on Rails✓

Gdpr

Laravel✓

Ruby on Rails–

Hipaa

Laravel✓

Ruby on Rails–

Scorecard

Laravel5.7

Ruby on Rails6.8

Soc2

Laravel✓

Ruby on Rails–

Vulnerabilities

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

Ruby on RailsCount: 18 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=rubygems&package_name=activesupport&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 3 · Max severity: CRITICAL

Reliability

Status page

Laravel✓

Ruby on Rails–

Adoption

Dependent repos

Laravel1,166

Ruby on Rails1,358,186

Github stars

Laravel84,875

Ruby on Rails58,719

Activity

Commits last 30d

Laravel10

Ruby on Rails100

Release

Cadence days

Laravel7

Ruby on Rails–

History

Laravel20 items

Ruby on Rails20 items

License

Spdx

Laravel–

Ruby on RailsMIT

Language

Primary

LaravelBlade

Ruby on RailsRuby

Market

Availability

LaravelAvailable worldwide · Popular in US

Ruby on Rails–

Capabilities

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

Capability comparison for Web Frameworks
Capability	Laravel	Ruby on Rails
Core
Rendering model	Hybrid (SSR+SSG+CSR)	Server-side
File-based routing	✓	-
Language	PHP	Ruby
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

LaravelHybrid (SSR+SSG+CSR)

Ruby on RailsServer-side

File-based routing

Laravel✓

Ruby on Rails-

Language

LaravelPHP

Ruby on RailsRuby

Rendering

Server components

Laravel✗

Ruby on Rails-

Streaming SSR

Laravel-

Ruby on Rails-

Fullstack

Built-in API / backend routes

Laravel✓

Ruby on Rails✓

First-class TypeScript

Laravel✗

Ruby on Rails✗

Fast refresh / HMR

Laravel-

Ruby on Rails-

Deployment

Edge runtime support

Laravel-

Ruby on Rails-

What each one is

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

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

Ruby on Rails

Leader

A Ruby-based framework bundling everything needed for web development: database management, templating engines, email delivery, real-time updates, async job handling, file storage, and built-in protections against common attacks like SQL injection and cross-site scripting.

Independently observed

Pricing

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

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 ↗

Ruby on Rails

Leader

Open source

as of 2026-08-16verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platform and deployment support comparison
Supports	Laravel	Ruby on Rails
WebPlatforms	✓	✓
macOSPlatforms	✗	✓
WindowsPlatforms	✗	✓
LinuxPlatforms	✗	✓
CLIPlatforms	✓	✗
Cloud / SaaSDeployment	✓	✓
Self-hostedDeployment	✗	✓

Platforms

Web

Laravel✓

Ruby on Rails✓

macOS

Laravel✗

Ruby on Rails✓

Windows

Laravel✗

Ruby on Rails✓

Linux

Laravel✗

Ruby on Rails✓

CLI

Laravel✓

Ruby on Rails✗

Deployment

Cloud / SaaS

Laravel✓

Ruby on Rails✓

Self-hosted

Laravel✗

Ruby on Rails✓

Integrations

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

Laravel

7 total

GitHub Actions
Redis
Cursor
Claude Code
Neon
Valkey
Composer

Independently observed

Ruby on Rails

Leader

Not documented yet.

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