Laravel development services - custom web apps, SaaS and admin panels, priced up front and yours to own.
Intention InfoService builds custom Laravel web applications - SaaS products, admin panels, portals and APIs - by a small senior team, in clean, modern PHP, at transparent published fixed prices. Laravel is the batteries-included framework that ships real web products fast, and you own 100% of the standard-Laravel code, with no lock-in. We're not an official Laravel Partner and won't pretend to be - the proof is the depth here and the code you keep. For startups, SMBs and enterprises worldwide.
Fixed price, code you own, no lock-in.
- You own 100% of the code
- Published fixed pricing
- Laravel 13 + modern PHP
Laravel in 2026v13
- Framework
- Laravel 13, annual releases
- Language
- PHP 8.4 / 8.5, typed and fast
- View layer
- Blade, Livewire 4, Inertia
- Its strength
- Ships web apps fast
The most-used PHP framework - and PHP still runs most of the web.
Custom applications, not content sites
Laravel's sweet spot is bespoke web applications - the software with real business logic behind it. A typical Laravel engagement is one of these:
SaaS products
Multi-tenant SaaS with subscription billing via Cashier, auth and per-customer data - the bespoke platform work Laravel is built to ship fast.
Admin panels & internal tools
Production admin panels, dashboards and back-office tools with Filament, without the throwaway feel of a hand-rolled admin.
Customer & vendor portals
Authenticated portals - client areas, vendor dashboards, booking and reservation systems - with roles, permissions and real data behind them.
REST & JSON APIs
Versioned REST and JSON:API backends with Sanctum auth - a clean, documented surface for your mobile app or a separate front end.
Custom web applications
CRUD-heavy business systems, marketplaces and line-of-business apps - the whole application on one codebase, in Blade, Livewire or Inertia.
Migrations & upgrades
Upgrading an older Laravel app to Laravel 13, or modernizing a legacy PHP codebase onto the framework - incrementally, not a big-bang rewrite.
Both are PHP - but different jobs
Laravel is for building custom PHP applications. When your project is really one of these instead, we'll point you to the right place rather than force the fit:
A content, blog or brochure site your team edits - WordPress, the PHP CMS your team edits is the right call - still PHP, just built for content editors instead of a custom application. We won't sell you a bespoke build where a CMS is what you need.
Raw or legacy PHP without a framework - PHP, the language itself is where non-framework and legacy PHP lives. Laravel is modern PHP done the framework way; plain PHP and legacy modernization are covered there.
A broader web build - design, content and front end together - our web design and development service covers the full web build. A Laravel app ships its own front end via Blade, Livewire or Inertia, and we scope the bigger picture there.
Is PHP dead in 2026? No.
PHP still powers roughly three-quarters of all websites whose server-side language is known (by W3Techs' count), far ahead of any other, and PHP 8.4 and 8.5 are current and actively developed. The honest part: PHP earned its dated reputation, back when PHP 4 and 5 had an inconsistent standard library, injection-prone database APIs and loose-typing footguns. Modern PHP is a different language - strict types, enums, readonly, property hooks, a pipe operator and a JIT - and Laravel 13 is thriving on top of it. We'd rather tell you that straight than pretend PHP was always great.
Why teams build web apps on Laravel
Laravel is the framework we reach for when the job is a real web application shipped fast, in a language with a huge talent pool. Here's what it buys you - and, honestly, when it's the wrong tool.
Batteries included
Routing, an ORM, auth, queues, caching, a mailer, a scheduler and an admin story all ship in the box - so you build product, not plumbing, and reach a maintainable app faster.
Eloquent & Artisan
Eloquent makes data modelling fast and readable, and Artisan's generators automate the repetitive parts - two reasons a small team ships a lot with Laravel.
Your choice of front end
Blade for server-rendered pages, Livewire for rich interactivity in PHP, or Inertia with React or Vue for a full SPA - one framework, the right view layer per app.
A mature ecosystem
Filament for admin, Cashier for billing, Sanctum for auth, Horizon for queues, Reverb for realtime - first-party packages for the hard parts, not a scavenger hunt.
Fast to production
Laravel's conventions and tooling get you from idea to a working, tested product quickly - ideal for MVPs, SaaS and internal tools where time-to-live matters.
Modern, typed PHP
PHP 8.4 and 8.5 are typed, fast and static-analysable with PHPStan - far from the untyped, dated PHP the framework's reputation is stuck on.
When we'd tell you not to use Laravel
Laravel is our pick for conventional server-rendered and CRUD-heavy web apps with a fast, batteries-included workflow. It is the wrong tool - and we'll say so - when the whole product is hard real-time at scale: for tens of thousands of persistent live connections, chat backbones or high-fanout streaming, Node.js, the JavaScript event-loop runtime is the sharper tool (Laravel does real-time fine with Reverb, just not as a dedicated backbone at extreme scale). When the core of the work is data engineering, ML or scientific computing, Python, the data and ML language leads. And if a JavaScript-everywhere team wants one language front to back, Node is the honest pick. Not sure which way to go? We'll pick the right stack for the job, not the one this page happens to be about.
Laravel the 2026 way, not the Laravel 5 way
There's no live Laravel running this static Next.js site to point at, so the proof is the depth. This is current to Laravel 13 on PHP 8.4 and 8.5, Livewire 4, Filament 5 and Pest 4 - not the Laravel 5, PHP 7, no-type-hints stack the framework's reputation is stuck on.
Modern, typed PHP 8.4/8.5
Property hooks, asymmetric visibility, enums, readonly and the pipe operator, in a codebase type-checked by PHPStan or Larastan and formatted by Pint. A typed, statically-analysed language in 2026, not the untyped PHP of its reputation.
Eloquent ORM & data modelling
Relationships, typed casts and versioned migrations over PostgreSQL or MySQL. The senior work is indexes, eager loading and a query budget - Eloquent is easy to make slow, so killing N+1s is the real skill.
The interactivity choice
Blade for content, Livewire 4 (single-file components, Islands) for rich interactivity without leaving PHP, Inertia 2 with React or Vue for an SPA on one codebase, or a pure API. We match the tool to the app, not to habit.
API development
Versioned REST and Laravel 13's first-party JSON:API resources, token and SPA auth via Sanctum, validation as the contract, and docs that track the code. Pagination, rate limiting and consistent error shapes handled.
Auth & authorization
The Laravel 13 starter kits, or Fortify and Sanctum, for login, registration and tokens, with policies and gates for who-can-do-what. Passkeys, social login and SSO via WorkOS or Socialite when you need them.
Admin panels with Filament
Filament, built on Livewire, for the admin, CRUD, dashboards and internal tooling that would otherwise cost weeks: resources, tables, forms, policies and multi-tenancy out of the box.
Queues, jobs & scheduling
Slow or flaky work - email, PDFs, exports, webhooks - moved off the request path onto Redis-backed queues with Horizon: retries with backoff, batching, unique and rate-limited jobs, plus a scheduler for cron.
Realtime with Reverb
Live features - notifications, presence, dashboards, chat - over WebSockets on Laravel's first-party Reverb server, broadcast through Echo and paired cleanly with Livewire or Inertia. Reconnection and scaling thought through.
Testing with Pest 4
Pest as the modern default: feature tests through the HTTP layer against a real database, plus Pest 4 browser testing (Playwright-powered) with visual regression and parallel sharding. Fast enough to run on every commit.
Performance, measured
Eager loading and a query budget first, then Redis caching, then Octane on FrankenPHP or Swoole to keep the app in memory for a large throughput gain once it's earned. We profile with Pulse before we optimise.
Payments, billing & multi-tenancy
Subscriptions, metered billing, invoices and webhooks through Cashier (Stripe or Paddle), and multi-tenant SaaS - single-database or database-per-tenant - done deliberately, with the isolation and billing edge cases handled.
Security to an OWASP standard
Framework defaults used properly: validation at every trust boundary, CSRF and origin-aware request-forgery protection, Eloquent's parameter binding against SQL injection, Blade escaping against XSS, guarded mass assignment and signed URLs.
Our default Laravel architecture: Laravel 13 on PHP 8.4 or 8.5, typed and static-analysed with PHPStan and formatted with Pint. Livewire 4 when the team is PHP-first, Inertia 2 with React or Vue when it wants an SPA - chosen per app, not by default. Eloquent over PostgreSQL, Filament for the admin, Redis-backed queues under Horizon, Reverb for realtime, Cashier for billing. Pest from the first commit, deployed on Laravel Cloud or Forge. We reach for Node when the product is real-time-heavy, and Python when the backend leans on data and ML - and we'll tell you honestly when your job is really WordPress, not a custom Laravel build.
We won't pretend this page is Laravel.
Our React and Next.js pages can say 'this page is the technology, inspect it.' This one can't, and we won't fake it. Our site is a static Next.js and React build, and even the toolchain that compiles it runs on Node, not PHP - so Laravel and PHP power none of what you're reading: not the runtime, not the build, not a single package. Bolting a 'Powered by Laravel' badge onto a page that isn't one would take five minutes, and it would cost us the exact thing this whole site is built to earn.
The depth on this page is the demo
The capability detail above is written by people who actually ship modern Laravel - Eloquent and typed models, Blade with Livewire or an Inertia front end, queues and Horizon, Reverb for realtime, Pest for testing, deployed on Laravel Cloud or Forge. It's current to Laravel 13 and PHP 8.4 and 8.5: the first-party AI SDK, JSON:API resources, native vector search, PHP attributes for configuration. Dated or hand-wavy PHP vocabulary is how you spot an amateur on a Laravel page. Ours is current, and that competence, stated as capability and never as a result we invented, is the proof that actually travels.
You own 100% of the code, IP and data
A standard Laravel application in your repository, deployed to your cloud - Laravel Cloud, Forge on your own AWS or DigitalOcean, or any host you like. The source, the migrations, the schema and the data live in your database and your domain, yours from day one. Nothing is held hostage on our side.
No lock-in, by construction
Standard Laravel and mainstream open source - Eloquent, Blade with Livewire or an Inertia front end, MySQL or PostgreSQL, Composer - in the conventional Laravel skeleton any competent Laravel team can read. We never wrap your app in an in-house framework only we understand.
Senior people, direct
You talk to the engineers who write your Laravel and design your schema - no account-manager layer, no offshore hand-off, no juniors learning Eloquent on your budget.
Transparent, published fixed pricing
The same published tiers as the rest of the site, no metered surprises and no quote wall. A Laravel web app or SaaS lands on the upper web tiers; a genuinely bespoke system or API enters through a fixed-price Discovery Sprint that ends in a written scope and a fixed build quote - never a mystery hourly rate.
Security-minded, honestly
We build on Laravel's own protections - CSRF, Eloquent's parameter binding against SQL injection, Blade's auto-escaping, hashed auth, signed URLs, rate limiting - plus OWASP practices. We hold no SOC 2 report and no ISO 27001 certification, and there is no HIPAA certification for anyone to hold; and we are not an official Laravel Partner and hold no Laravel certification - we won't imply either. If your project legally needs a vendor who carries a formal attestation, we'll say so plainly.
A registered company since 2016
Intention InfoService is a real, incorporated company, small and senior on purpose - so a Laravel codebase stays architecturally consistent from migration to deployment instead of passing between rotating hands.
We ship web applications built from the same parts - honestly labelled
Our production work is real, custom web builds - a professional-training platform rebuild and a financial-services site - built from the exact primitives a Laravel application is made of: relational data models, a large searchable and filterable catalog, enquiry and enrolment funnels, a real-time affordability calculator, an admin surface a non-technical team runs itself, and third-party integrations that have to not break. See our work, described honestly - and never relabelled as Laravel or PHP projects, because they weren't, and we won't dress a web build up as something it wasn't. What they prove is one true thing: this team ships working software that models real data, runs filterable catalogs and enquiry funnels, and holds up in production. The Laravel-specific proof isn't a borrowed case study - it's the depth on this page and the standard-Laravel code, migrations and database you'll own outright.
From data model to a shipped Laravel app
We decide the view layer and design the schema before we build, so the app stays clean as it grows - and most Laravel builds go from kickoff to live in weeks, not months.
Discovery & scope
2-3 daysWe map the features, roles and data, decide the view layer - Blade, Livewire or Inertia - and agree scope and a fixed price, or a Discovery Sprint for a bespoke system.
Data model & architecture
daysWe design the Eloquent schema, migrations and the module boundaries first, so the app stays clean as features land.
Build in sprints
weeksFeatures, admin and integrations built and demoed on a live URL every week - never a black box, always in your repo and cloud.
Test & harden
ongoingPest tests, a security pass on Laravel's protections, and a performance pass with eager loading and caching - so it ships solid and observable.
Deploy & hand over
on deliveryDeployed on Laravel Cloud or Forge with CI/CD and migrations in the pipeline, documented and handed over - a standard Laravel repo you own outright.
The honest 2026 framework comparison
We're stack-agnostic, so this is fair, not a pitch. All three are excellent - the real choice in 2026 is about your language, your workload, and how much you want in the box.
| Laravel | Django | Node.js | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | Full-stack PHP framework | Full-stack Python framework | JavaScript runtime on V8 |
| Best for | Server-rendered, CRUD-heavy web apps & SaaS | Web apps that lean on Python data or ML | Real-time, high-concurrency, API-first |
| In the box | ORM, auth, queues, admin - included | ORM, auth, admin - included | Assemble your own |
| View / front end | Blade, Livewire, Inertia (React/Vue) | Templates, DRF for APIs | Bring a front-end framework |
| Language | PHP 8.4 / 8.5, typed | Python, type hints | JavaScript / TypeScript |
| Our take | Our pick for fast, batteries-included web apps | When the stack is Python or data/ML | When real-time or JS-everywhere leads |
Laravel and Django are close cousins - the same batteries-included, full-stack idea, on different languages. Weighing Python instead? See our Django, the batteries-included Python framework page. Need real-time or one JavaScript language across the stack? That's Node.js, the JavaScript backend runtime. We recommend the fit, not the framework we sell.
What Laravel development costs
No quote wall. A Laravel build is priced by our published web tiers - the same numbers on our pricing page and everywhere else. A web app or SaaS usually lands at the upper tiers; a bespoke system or API is scoped up front. You always see the price before you commit.
Starter
1 week
A single-page site or landing page, live fast
- 1 to 5 page site or landing page
- Mobile-responsive, on-brand design
- SEO & schema baseline
Launch Sprint
2-3 weeks
Startups needing a fast, credible site
- Up to 8 pages
- Next.js + CMS
- SEO & schema baseline
Growth Site
3-5 weeks
SMBs that want a lead engine
- 8-30 pages
- Blog / CMS
- AEO/GEO content structure
Commerce Sprint
4-6 weeks
DTC / e-commerce brands
- Headless Shopify or Next.js commerce
- Payments
- Performance-tuned PDP & checkout
MVP Sprint
6-10 weeks
Pre-seed / seed founders
- Core-feature web app / SaaS
- Auth + database
- Deployed & measured
Pricing a SaaS platform, portal or standalone API?
A Laravel web app usually lands at the upper tiers. A bespoke SaaS platform, portal or standalone API is genuinely scoped work, so it enters through our custom software Discovery Sprint from $1,000, which ends in a written scope and a fixed build quote. And if you need the broader web build - design, content and front end together - that's our web design and development service.
See full package details on pricing and our custom software service.
Laravel development, answered
What is Laravel used for?
Laravel is a full-stack PHP web framework used to build custom web applications, SaaS products, REST and JSON:API backends, admin panels and dashboards, and CRUD-heavy business systems. It ships with routing, an ORM (Eloquent), auth, queues, caching and a templating engine out of the box, so teams build faster without wiring those together. In 2026 it is the most-used PHP framework, and Laravel 13 even ships a first-party AI SDK for AI-enabled apps.
Is Laravel frontend or backend?
Laravel is primarily a backend framework - it runs on the server and handles routing, business logic, the database and APIs. It is full-stack in that it also renders the front end through Blade, Livewire or Inertia, so a Laravel app can be the whole application rather than just an API. When you want a decoupled browser UI, Laravel serves the API and React, Next.js or Vue serves the front end.
Is PHP dead in 2026?
No, and the data isn't close. PHP still powers roughly three-quarters of all websites whose server-side language is known, by W3Techs' count, far ahead of any other, and PHP 8.4 and 8.5 are current and actively developed. 'PHP is dead' describes a dated reputation earned in the PHP 4 and 5 era, not today's usage - modern PHP is typed, fast and a genuinely different language, and Laravel 13 is thriving on top of it.
Is Laravel still worth using in 2026?
Yes. Laravel is the leading PHP framework by a wide margin, on an annual release cadence - Laravel 13 shipped in March 2026 with a first-party AI SDK, JSON:API resources and native vector search. The ecosystem is expanding, not contracting: Livewire 4, Filament 5, Inertia 2, Reverb for realtime, Pest 4 for testing and Laravel Cloud for deployment. For CRUD-heavy web apps and SaaS with a large talent pool behind it, it is a safe, well-supported default.
Are you an official Laravel Partner?
No - and we won't imply we are. The Laravel Partners program is a real, publicly listed, vetted program, and we are not in it, so claiming or hinting it would be a lie you could check in one click. We hold no Laravel certification either. What we offer instead is verifiable: the engineering depth on this page, transparent published pricing, and standard-Laravel code you own outright.
Laravel vs Node.js - which backend should I choose?
Laravel is excellent for conventional server-rendered web apps and CRUD-heavy products with a fast, batteries-included workflow. Node.js is the better fit for real-time features, high-concurrency I/O and one JavaScript or TypeScript language across front and back end. Neither wins in the abstract - it depends on your product and team, and we build in both.
Laravel vs Django - which should I use?
They're close cousins - both batteries-included, full-stack MVC frameworks with an ORM, auth and an admin story built in. Choose Laravel when your team is in PHP, or when Livewire, Filament and the Laravel hosting ecosystem fit the product. Choose Django when Python is your language, especially if data or ML sits behind the app. We build both and recommend the honest fit, not the one we feel like selling.
Laravel vs WordPress - which do I need?
Different jobs, both PHP. If you need a content, blog or brochure site your team edits through an admin, that is WordPress. If you need a custom application, SaaS, portal, admin panel or anything with bespoke business logic and data, that is Laravel. A useful rule: a content site is WordPress, custom software with a web front end is Laravel.
Laravel vs raw PHP - do I need a framework?
For anything beyond a small script, a framework saves you from re-implementing routing, security, auth and database access by hand, and Laravel gives you those with strong, well-documented conventions. Raw or core PHP still makes sense for tiny utilities, or for maintaining an existing custom-PHP codebase, which we cover on our PHP page. This page is about building modern applications on the Laravel framework.
Blade vs Livewire vs Inertia - which front end should my Laravel app use?
Blade is Laravel's server-rendered templating - simplest, best for content-driven pages. Livewire keeps the logic in PHP while giving you reactive, dynamic interfaces without a separate JS framework - ideal for admin panels, dashboards and form-heavy SaaS, and it is what Filament is built on. Inertia lets you build the front end in React or Vue against your Laravel backend with no separate API - best for a rich SPA-style UI. We pick per product and explain the trade-off.
Can you build a SaaS product on Laravel?
Yes - Laravel is a common SaaS foundation, with first-party pieces for the hard parts: Cashier for Stripe or Paddle subscription billing, Sanctum and Passport for auth and API tokens, and multi-tenancy patterns for per-customer data. A SaaS platform is genuinely bespoke, so it is scoped as custom software through a Discovery Sprint that ends in a fixed build quote, rather than dropped into a fixed web tier sight-unseen.
Can you build an admin panel or internal tool in Laravel?
Yes - this is one of Laravel's biggest 2026 strengths. Filament, built on Livewire, generates production admin panels, CRUD resources, dashboards and internal tools fast, without the throwaway feel of a hand-rolled admin. Bespoke internal tools, portals and back-office systems are scoped as custom software through a fixed-price Discovery Sprint.
Does this website run on Laravel?
No - and we won't pretend it does. This site is a static Next.js and React build, and even the build toolchain runs on Node, not PHP, so Laravel powers none of what you are reading. We could have bolted on a Laravel-powered badge in minutes; we didn't, because that is the moment you stop being able to trust anything else on the page. The proof here is the engineering depth of this page and the standard Laravel code you own outright.
How much does Laravel development cost?
We publish fixed tiers instead of a quote wall: Starter from $300, Launch Sprint from $1,500, Growth Site from $4,000, Commerce Sprint from $7,000, and an MVP Sprint from $12,000 for a web app with a real backend. A Laravel web app or SaaS usually lands at the upper tiers; a bespoke system, API or platform is scoped through a custom-software Discovery Sprint from $1,000 that ends in a fixed build quote. No hourly rates, no mystery pricing.
Do I own the Laravel code you build?
Yes - 100% ownership. It is standard Laravel on mainstream open-source packages, in your repository, deployed to your own cloud or Laravel Cloud account, so the code, database schema, data and IP are yours from day one and any competent Laravel team can take it over. No proprietary lock-in, no framework only we understand. Fixed pricing and code you own outright are the whole point.
Ready to build with Laravel?
Get a fixed-price quote for a Laravel web app, SaaS or API - clean, modern PHP you own outright, with no lock-in and no quote wall. We're not an official Laravel Partner, and we won't pretend to be.