Alternatives and competitors

Sites like Laravel

The 20 closest web application framework alternatives to Laravel, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 15 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to Laravel? The closest matches are Drupal, Laracasts and phpMyAdmin. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.

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01 · Entity

About Laravel

Laravel laravel.com

Laravel - The clean stack for Artisans and agents

Laravel is a framework for building modern web apps and AI agents. Expressive syntax, built-in tools, and everything you need to ship fast.

Wikidata: open source web application framework, written in PHP

Top 10K · #2,408 English 15 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit Laravel

Summary by Claude

Laravel is a free, open-source PHP web application framework with routing, ORM, queues and authentication, plus commercial services such as Laravel Cloud for hosting and deployment and Nightwatch for application monitoring.

Who it’s for
PHP web developers and development teams
Business model
Open-source framework funded by paid hosting and monitoring services

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Laravel’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

RailwayMySQLWordPressPlausible AnalyticsMoodleLaravel NewsPHPphpMyAdminLaracastsDrupal

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Laravel

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Laravel, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English
  1. 01
    Drupal drupal.org Top 10K English

    Client Challenge

    free and open-source web content management system

  2. 02
    Laracasts laracasts.com Top 10K English

    Learn Laravel | Laracasts

    The best way to learn Laravel and PHP.

  3. 03
    phpMyAdmin phpmyadmin.net Top 10K English

    phpMyAdmin

    database administration tool

  4. 04
    PHP php.net Top 1K English

    PHP

    PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.

  5. 05
    Laravel News laravel-news.com Top 10K English

    Laravel News: Tutorials, Packages & Framework News

    Laravel News is the official blog of Laravel. Every day bringing you the latest news, tutorials, and packages for the framework.

  6. 06
    Moodle moodle.org Top 10K

    Moodle challenge

    e-learning platform

  7. 07
    Plausible Analytics plausible.io Top 10K English

    Plausible Analytics | Simple, privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative

    Plausible is a lightweight and open-source Google Analytics alternative. Your website data is 100% yours and the privacy of your visitors is respected.

  8. 08
    Vue.js vuejs.org Top 10K English

    Vue.js - The Progressive JavaScript Framework | Vue.js

    Vue.js - The Progressive JavaScript Framework

  9. 09
    getcomposer.org Top 10K English

    Composer

    A Dependency Manager for PHP

  10. 10
    WordPress wordpress.org Top 100 English

    Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS | WordPress.org

    Open source software which you can use to easily create a beautiful website, blog, or app.

  11. 11
    MySQL mysql.com Top 1K English

    MySQL

    Open-source relational database management system

  12. 12
    Railway railway.app Top 10K English

    Railway | The all-in-one intelligent cloud provider

    Railway is a full-stack cloud for deploying web apps, servers, databases, and more with automatic scaling, monitoring, and security.

  13. 13
    OSF osf.io Top 10K English

    OSF

    tools that make open science practice easier

  14. 14
    Ollama ollama.com Top 10K

    Ollama · Run AI models locally and in the cloud

    Ollama is the easiest way to run and build with open AI models locally or in the cloud on macOS, Windows, and Linux.

  15. 15
    Node.js nodejs.org Top 10K English

    Node.js — Run JavaScript Everywhere

    Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.

  16. 16
    OVHcloud ovhcloud.com Top 10K English

    OVHcloud

    OVHcloud is a global, cloud provider delivering hosted private cloud, public cloud, and dedicated server solutions trusted by over 1.5 million developers.

  17. 17
    getbootstrap.com Top 10K English

    Bootstrap · The most popular HTML, CSS, and JS library in the world.

    Powerful, extensible, and feature-packed frontend toolkit. Build and customize with Sass, utilize prebuilt grid system and components, and bring projects to life with powerful JavaScript plugins.

  18. 18
    MediaWiki mediawiki.org Top 10K English

    MediaWiki

    free and open-source wiki software, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation

  19. 19
    OpenRouter openrouter.ai Top 10K English

    OpenRouter

    The unified interface for every model. Find the best models & prices for your prompts

  20. 20
    Vercel vercel.com Top 10K English

    Agentic Infrastructure - Vercel

    The autonomous stack for every app and agent.

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to laravel.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Laravel uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What Laravel is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

Built with

JavaScript frameworks
  • Vue.js page source: data-server-rendered="true"
Analytics
  • Fathom asset https://cdn.usefathom.com/script.js
Marketing automation
  • HubSpot page source: js.hs-scripts.com
  • Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:helpscoutemail.com include:ser…
Payments
  • Stripe TXT stripe-verification=CFF2AB5286BB7E6BE71F0EAC382DB65EAD5933CC134963F09…
CDN
Site search
Email hosting
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=tlzNYi4TiyIyqRev
  • Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=N5zXaaBRBE9Cd5PSTyhBKk9XTXQUL2ST8oiy1wa…
  • Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=6lIAZ--o60UH9A-Plhu-Oy86l7upix6tiJXoVgEEA3w
  • Miro TXT miro-verification=05b393eebea8904ac08432f96b3bb4895912712c
  • OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-MSTq1JYFRC7keX9UmL6TR71z
  • Slack TXT slack-domain-verification=PY2dIaxRPOTm3mF4P2MTsIfMOxSswIjH1h9iuBFW

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