Comparison

Laravel vs Symfony

No clear leader: Laravel (65.5) and Symfony (63.4) 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.

Laravel full profile →Symfony full profile →

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Laravel66

Symfony63

Attribute comparison across 2 tools
Attribute	Laravel	Symfony
vioscaleAI score	66 / 100high · 75%	63 / 100medium · 61%
Pricing
Free tierpricing.free_tier	✓	✓
Modelpricing.model	freemium	commercial
Price levelpricing.price_level	low	free
Starting pricepricing.starting_price	$5	-
Transparentpricing.transparent	✓	✓
Integrations
Countintegrations.count	16	4
Security
Certificationssecurity.certifications	SOC 2 Type 1	-
Disclosure policysecurity.disclosure_policy	✓	✓
Gdprsecurity.gdpr	✓	✓
Hipaasecurity.hipaa	✓	-
Scorecardsecurity.scorecard	5.7	7.9
Soc2security.soc2	✓	-
Trust centersecurity.trust_center	https://laravel.com/blog/laravel-cloud-achieves-soc-2-type-1-compliance	https://symfony.com/packages/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: 94 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=packagist&package_name=symfony%2Fsymfony&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 31 · Max severity: CRITICAL
Reliability
Status pagereliability.status_page	✓	-
Adoption
Dependent reposadoption.dependent_repos	1,166	22,779
Github starsadoption.github_stars	85,054	31,164
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	PHP
Market
Availabilitymarket.availability	Available worldwide · HQ US	Available worldwide
Content
Faqcontent.faq	7 items	7 items

Score

vioscaleAI score

Laravel66 / 100high · 75%

Symfony63 / 100medium · 61%

Pricing

Free tier

Laravel✓

Symfony✓

Model

Laravelfreemium

Symfonycommercial

Price level

Laravellow

Symfonyfree

Starting price

Laravel$5

Symfony–

Transparent

Laravel✓

Symfony✓

Integrations

Count

Laravel16

Symfony4

Security

Certifications

LaravelSOC 2 Type 1

Symfony–

Disclosure policy

Laravel✓

Symfony✓

Gdpr

Laravel✓

Symfony✓

Hipaa

Laravel✓

Symfony–

Scorecard

Laravel5.7

Symfony7.9

Soc2

Laravel✓

Symfony–

Trust center

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

Symfonyhttps://symfony.com/packages/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

SymfonyCount: 94 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=packagist&package_name=symfony%2Fsymfony&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 31 · Max severity: CRITICAL

Reliability

Status page

Laravel✓

Symfony–

Adoption

Dependent repos

Laravel1,166

Symfony22,779

Github stars

Laravel85,054

Symfony31,164

Activity

Commits last 30d

Laravel8

Symfony100

Release

Cadence days

Laravel7

Symfony–

History

Laravel20 items

Symfony20 items

License

Spdx

Laravel–

SymfonyMIT

Language

Primary

LaravelBlade

SymfonyPHP

Market

Availability

LaravelAvailable worldwide · HQ US

SymfonyAvailable worldwide

Content

Faq

Laravel7 items

Symfony7 items

Capabilities

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

Capability comparison for Web Frameworks
Capability	Laravel	Symfony
Core
Rendering model	Hybrid (SSR+SSG+CSR)	Hybrid (SSR+SSG+CSR)
File-based routing	✓	-
Language	PHP	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

LaravelHybrid (SSR+SSG+CSR)

SymfonyHybrid (SSR+SSG+CSR)

File-based routing

Laravel✓

Symfony-

Language

LaravelPHP

SymfonyPHP

Rendering

Server components

Laravel✗

Symfony-

Streaming SSR

Laravel-

Symfony-

Fullstack

Built-in API / backend routes

Laravel✓

Symfony✓

First-class TypeScript

Laravel✗

Symfony-

Fast refresh / HMR

Laravel-

Symfony-

Deployment

Edge runtime support

Laravel-

Symfony-

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

Symfony

A complete PHP framework that bundles routing, database mapping, templates, validation, testing, and security tools in a cohesive package for building web applications.

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 ↗

Symfony

Open sourceFree tier

Free and open source under MIT license

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

Platforms

Web

Laravel✓

Symfony✓

CLI

Laravel✓

Symfony✓

Deployment

Cloud / SaaS

Laravel✓

Symfony✓

Self-hosted

Laravel✓

Symfony✗

On-premise

Laravel✓

Symfony✗

Hybrid

Laravel✓

Symfony✗

Integrations

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

In common (1)

Composer

Laravel

26 total - 25 not shared

GitHub Actions
Redis
Cursor
Claude Code
Neon
Valkey
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

Symfony

4 total - 3 not shared

Drupal
Laravel
API Platform

Independently observed

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Laravel or Symfony: which one depends on you

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