Comparison

Laravel vs Ruby on Rails

On the evidence we track, Ruby on Rails leads this comparison with a composite score of 72/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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Laravel66

★Ruby on Rails72

Attribute comparison across 2 tools
Attribute	Laravel	Ruby on RailsLeader
vioscaleAI score	66 / 100high · 75%	72 / 100medium · 51%
Pricing
Free tierpricing.free_tier	✓	✓
Modelpricing.model	freemium	open_source
Price levelpricing.price_level	low	free
Starting pricepricing.starting_price	$5	-
Transparentpricing.transparent	✓	-
Integrations
Countintegrations.count	16	-
Security
Certificationssecurity.certifications	SOC 2 Type 1	-
Disclosure policysecurity.disclosure_policy	✓	✓
Gdprsecurity.gdpr	✓	-
Hipaasecurity.hipaa	✓	-
Scorecardsecurity.scorecard	5.7	6.4
Soc2security.soc2	✓	-
Trust centersecurity.trust_center	https://laravel.com/blog/laravel-cloud-achieves-soc-2-type-1-compliance	https://rubyonrails.org/security
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	85,054	58,803
Activity
Commits last 30dactivity.commits_last_30d	8	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 · HQ US	-
Content
Faqcontent.faq	7 items	5 items

Score

vioscaleAI score

Laravel66 / 100high · 75%

Ruby on Rails72 / 100medium · 51%

Pricing

Free tier

Laravel✓

Ruby on Rails✓

Model

Laravelfreemium

Ruby on Railsopen_source

Price level

Laravellow

Ruby on Railsfree

Starting price

Laravel$5

Ruby on Rails–

Transparent

Laravel✓

Ruby on Rails–

Integrations

Count

Laravel16

Ruby on Rails–

Security

Certifications

LaravelSOC 2 Type 1

Ruby on Rails–

Disclosure policy

Laravel✓

Ruby on Rails✓

Gdpr

Laravel✓

Ruby on Rails–

Hipaa

Laravel✓

Ruby on Rails–

Scorecard

Laravel5.7

Ruby on Rails6.4

Soc2

Laravel✓

Ruby on Rails–

Trust center

Laravelhttps://laravel.com/blog/laravel-cloud-achieves-soc-2-type-1-compliance

Ruby on Railshttps://rubyonrails.org/security

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

Laravel85,054

Ruby on Rails58,803

Activity

Commits last 30d

Laravel8

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 · HQ US

Ruby on Rails–

Content

Faq

Laravel7 items

Ruby on Rails5 items

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 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

Ruby on Rails

Leader

A full-stack framework for building web applications with integrated database modeling, templating, email handling, real-time WebSocket support, background job processing, and security features.

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/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 2026-10-05verify ↗

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	✓	✓
CLIPlatforms	✓	✗
Cloud / SaaSDeployment	✓	✓
Self-hostedDeployment	✓	✓
On-premiseDeployment	✓	✗
HybridDeployment	✓	✗

Platforms

Web

Laravel✓

Ruby on Rails✓

CLI

Laravel✓

Ruby on Rails✗

Deployment

Cloud / SaaS

Laravel✓

Ruby on Rails✓

Self-hosted

Laravel✓

Ruby on Rails✓

On-premise

Laravel✓

Ruby on Rails✗

Hybrid

Laravel✓

Ruby on Rails✗

Integrations

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

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

Ruby on Rails

Leader

Not documented yet.

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