Laravel Forge vs Laravel Vapor

Laravel Forge9.4Visit Laravel Vapor9.3Visit

Higher score Laravel Forge #1 in Laravel Hosting 9.4/10 Paid ✓ 0 of 3 features Visit Laravel Forge

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Laravel Vapor #2 in Laravel Hosting 9.3/10 Free plan Free plan✓ 3 of 3 features Visit Laravel Vapor

• Laravel Forge fits best

  Laravel teams wanting mature deployment automation

• Laravel Vapor fits best

  Teams needing serverless Laravel on AWS

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Side by side

Feature	Laravel Forge 9.4/10 Visit ↗	Laravel Vapor 9.3/10 Visit ↗
At a glance
Editor score	9.4	9.3
Ranking	#1 in Laravel Hosting	#2 in Laravel Hosting
Best for	Laravel teams wanting mature deployment automation	Teams needing serverless Laravel on AWS
Pricing model	Paid	Free plan + paid
Starting price	$120/yr	—
Free plan	—	✓ (best)
Free trial	—	—
Deployment	Cloud	Cloud
Platforms	Web	Web
Support	Email, Community	Email
Integrations	8 integrations	8 integrations
Built for	Solo, Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise	Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise
Features Laravel Forge 0/3 · Laravel Vapor 3/3
Queue workers	Not checked yet	✓ (best)
Managed database	Not checked yet	✓ (best)
Staging environments	Not checked yet	✓ (best)
Specs
PHP versions	Not checked yet	PHP 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5
Backup retention	Not checked yet	3 days
Deployment method	Not checked yet	Ci/cd
Our review
Pros	Zero-downtime deployments with retained releases for rollback Push-to-deploy from GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket Provisioning, SSL, monitoring, queues, schedulers, and databases	Autoscaling web and queue infrastructure with managed AWS services Includes staging, rollbacks, backups, Redis, and queue management Free Sandbox plus unlimited projects and deployments on paid plans
Cons	No free plan is available Hobby includes only 1 external server Advanced support is limited to the Business plan	Paid plans start at $39 per month Sandbox is limited to one project and 10 deployments Platform is centered on AWS Lambda and related AWS services
Our verdict	Laravel Forge is a web-based server management and application deployment platform built by the Laravel team. It is designed for teams running Laravel and PHP applications, while also supporting vanilla PHP, WordPress, Statamic, static… Read the review →	Laravel Vapor is a serverless deployment and infrastructure platform for Laravel applications running on AWS. It is designed for teams that want Laravel environments managed through a platform rather than operated directly across… Read the review →

Strengths and trade-offs

• Laravel Forge — where it wins

  • Zero-downtime deployments with retained releases for rollback
  • Push-to-deploy from GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket
  • Provisioning, SSL, monitoring, queues, schedulers, and databases

  Where it doesn't

  • No free plan is available
  • Hobby includes only 1 external server
  • Advanced support is limited to the Business plan

• Laravel Vapor — where it wins

  • Autoscaling web and queue infrastructure with managed AWS services
  • Includes staging, rollbacks, backups, Redis, and queue management
  • Free Sandbox plus unlimited projects and deployments on paid plans

  Where it doesn't

  • Paid plans start at $39 per month
  • Sandbox is limited to one project and 10 deployments
  • Platform is centered on AWS Lambda and related AWS services

• Laravel Forge9.4/10 · Paid

  A focused choice for Laravel teams that want deep deployment and server automation.

  Visit Laravel ForgeFull verdict →
• Laravel Vapor9.3/10 · Free plan

  A deep AWS-based Laravel platform, with paid plans starting at $39 monthly.

  Visit Laravel VaporFull verdict →