Companies Using Laravel

We detect Laravel on 90,325 domains, including RPG Group, Serco Group plc, University of Buenos Aires. A detection means the technology is present on that domain, which for large organisations is often a single storefront or subdomain rather than a company-wide deployment. Among domains we matched to a company with a resolved industry, the most common is Real Estate (5.29%).

We detect 90,325 domains running Laravel across our monthly crawl of live business domains. Company data could be matched for 50,433 of them (55.8%), and every company-size, industry and country breakdown on this page describes that matched subset rather than the full detected base. A further 7,257 domains carried a Laravel detection previously and no longer do.

Laravel holds 4.87% of the Web Frameworks category, ranking #5. This is a share of the domains we detect running a platform in this category — not a share of all websites, and not a share of spending — so it is not directly comparable to figures published on other denominators.

The top alternatives to Laravel include Microsoft ASP.NET (46.19% market share), Ruby on Rails (10.96% market share), Nuxt.js (10.25% market share), Express (7.46% market share) — measured as a share of the domains we detect running a platform in this category.

United States leads with 6,102 matched Laravel domains, followed by India (5,149), Brazil (3,760), United Kingdom (3,053), France (1,825). These are counts within the 50,433 domains we could match to a company record, not the full detected base.

The most common company size is 1-10 employees, representing 50.77% of the Laravel domains we could match to a company record and size — a subset of 50,433 matched companies, not of all 90,325 detected domains. This is followed by 11-50 employees (25.67%) and 51-200 employees (12.71%).

Among the Laravel domains we could match to a company with a known founding date, the largest group was founded in the 2010s (40.24%), followed by the 2000s (18.83%). That matched subset is drawn from 50,433 companies and is not representative of all 90,325 detected domains. This suggests Laravel is most popular among relatively young companies.

The ideal Laravel customer is: Company Size: 1-50 employees, Industry: Real estate, agencies, or retail, Location: US, India, Brazil, or UK, Built by: An agency or contract developer, Stack: Server-rendered PHP with jQuery — based on our analysis of 50,433 enriched companies at TechnologyChecker.io.

Among the domains where we detect Laravel directly, the largest organisations include Serco Group, Red Hat, Korn Ferry, Clear Channel International, SM Supermalls, the University of Buenos Aires, Djarum Group, Bank Al Habib, TeamLease Services and RPG Group. 272 matched companies have more than 10,000 employees. Because Laravel's signature is optional, absence from this list is weak evidence that a company does not use it.

Absolutely. Laravel's active domain count grew 46% year-over-year through early 2025, reaching 81,751 detected domains. PHP powers roughly 77% of websites with a known server-side language, and Laravel is its most popular framework. The release of Laravel Cloud in 2025 and continued updates (Laravel 12, with 13 in preview) show active investment.

The Laravel framework is free and open-source under the MIT license. Paid services exist in the network: Laravel Cloud (hosting, usage-based from $0), Laravel Forge (server management, from $12/month), and Laravel Vapor (serverless deployment). Most developers start with the free framework and add paid services as they scale.

Laravel's core features include MVC architecture, Eloquent ORM for database queries, Blade templating engine, built-in authentication and authorization, Artisan CLI for code generation, task scheduling, queue management, and real-time event broadcasting. Recent versions added Livewire for reactive UIs and Jetstream for application scaffolding. Security features like CSRF protection and encryption are built in.

It depends on your stack. Laravel runs on PHP and excels at rapid web application development with a gentle learning curve. ASP.NET runs on C# and suits enterprise Windows environments and high-performance APIs better. Our migration data shows 6,643 companies switched from ASP.NET to Laravel while 3,856 went the other direction. A 1.7:1 gain ratio favoring Laravel.

AI won't replace Laravel developers, but it will change how they work. AI tools can generate boilerplate code, write tests, and suggest database migrations. Designing application architecture, handling business logic, and maintaining security still require human judgment. Laravel's community already integrates AI through packages, and developers who adopt AI-assisted workflows will be more productive.

Across the 50,433 domains we matched to a company record, Real Estate leads at 5.29%, followed by IT Services and IT Consulting (5.06%), Retail (3.75%) and Software Development (3.65%). That ordering is distinctive: every other major framework in this category leads with software or technology. Read the top two together and it makes sense, since the IT services firms are the agencies and real estate, retail, construction and hospitality are their clients.

We detect Rails on 203,189 domains against Laravel's 90,325, and the switching runs Rails' way: 81 domains moved from Laravel to Rails since March 2026 against 23 the other way. Two caveats matter. Rails has six independent detection signals to Laravel's two optional ones, so part of that gap is visibility rather than adoption. And the two have different centres of gravity: Rails skews to US marketplaces and public sector work, while Laravel's base is agencies building for clients, with India and Brazil ranking above the United Kingdom.

Yes, our data shows enterprises like HSBC, PwC, Siemens, and Oracle running Laravel-powered applications. Built-in security features (CSRF protection, encryption, authentication scaffolding), Eloquent ORM, and queue management handle enterprise requirements well. Most large companies use Laravel for internal tools and subsidiary platforms where rapid development and PHP maturity are advantages.

Laravel Cloud is the official hosting platform launched in 2025 by Laravel Holdings, Inc. It offers usage-based pricing starting with a free Starter tier, plus Growth ($20/month) and Business ($200/month) plans. Features include automatic deployments, autoscaling, preview environments, and a web application firewall. It runs on AWS infrastructure and is designed specifically for Laravel applications.

Yes, laravel supports horizontal scaling through load balancing, queue workers, and caching layers (Redis, Memcached). Ghost's case study on laravel.com describes handling 14 million monthly requests with a single engineer using Laravel Cloud. Performance depends on architecture decisions, server configuration, and caching strategy rather than framework limitations.

Notable applications built with Laravel include 9GAG (entertainment), Barchart (financial data), Invoice Ninja (billing), and Ghost Explore (site directory). SaaS products like Envoyer, Forge, and Nova are built by the Laravel team itself. Many businesses use Laravel for custom CRMs, booking systems, inventory management tools, and internal dashboards rather than consumer-facing apps.

The usual signals are a laravel_session cookie in the response, a Laravel JavaScript global, and framework-specific error pages. All of these are optional: the cookie name is configurable and the global only appears when an application ships Laravel's front-end helpers, so a site can be entirely Laravel and show none of them. Our own data shows how large that gap is. We detect Livewire, a package that runs only on Laravel, on 33,151 domains, and only 2,911 of those also register a Laravel detection.

PHP powers approximately 77% of websites with a known server-side language in 2026, according to W3Techs. Major platforms like WordPress, Drupal, and Magento run on PHP. Laravel, the most popular PHP framework, grew 46% year-over-year in active domains. PHP 8.x brought performance improvements, JIT compilation, and modern language features that keep it competitive with newer alternatives.