What is Laravel?
Laravel is a batteries-included PHP framework for building web applications with routing, queues, authentication, ORM, and built-in support for frontend frameworks like React, Vue, and Svelte.
Laravel pricing
We don't have Laravel's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.
Open source framework. Additional cloud platform services available with usage-based pricing.
What Laravel does
The capabilities that matter for web frameworks, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Rendering model
- Server-side
- File-based routing
- -
- Language
- PHP
- Server components
- ✓
- Streaming SSR
- -
- Built-in API / backend routes
- ✓
- First-class TypeScript
- -
- Fast refresh / HMR
- -
- Edge runtime support
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (1)
Independently observed- GitHub Actions
Laravel alternatives
Other web frameworks we track, ranked by the same independent score.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Laravel, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security Posture | 60 | 13.00 | 780.0 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 46 | 16.00 | 733.1 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 9 | 8.00 | 69.3 | ✓ |
| Github Stars | 0 | 5.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Github Activity | 0 | 18.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Release Cadence | 0 | 10.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Package Downloads | 0 | 26.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Stackoverflow Activity | 0 | 12.00 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"language":"PHP","rendering":"ssr","api_routes":true,"server_components":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 1 | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |