Laravel PHP Framework vs. Magento Open Source

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Laravel PHP Framework
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Laravel is a free, open source web application PHP framework.N/A
Magento Open Source
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Magento Open Source is an ecommerce content management solution originally developed by Varien Inc and presently supported by Adobe. The Open Source product is for developers and merchants that is available as a free download, and supported with free upgrades from the Magento Community.N/A
Pricing
Laravel PHP FrameworkMagento Open Source
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Laravel PHP FrameworkMagento Open Source
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Laravel PHP FrameworkMagento Open Source
Considered Both Products
Laravel PHP Framework
Chose Laravel PHP Framework
Laravel is much better than CodeIgniter in many aspects, First of all it is more secure and robust. It has a great troubleshooting mechanism. They have added more libraries, themes and plug-ins for different purposes. The MVC model helped the developers to get rid of writing …
Magento Open Source
Chose Magento Open Source
Magento vs PrestaShop
Magento is good for big-scale projects that require a lot of features or a lot of custom development. PrestaShop is a good, lightweight platform that can handle most e-commerce use cases. When it comes to which is easier to use, especially for non-tech …
Chose Magento Open Source
In Drupal, you have to add on the commerce plugin in order to add on the features. OroCRM is the same way. Magento provides the out of the box functionality as opposed to building out additional plugins and more coding.
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Laravel PHP FrameworkMagento Open Source
Online Storefront
Comparison of Online Storefront features of Product A and Product B
Laravel PHP Framework
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Ratings
Magento Open Source
7.7
28 Ratings
0% above category average
Product catalog & listings00 Ratings8.528 Ratings
Product management00 Ratings9.528 Ratings
Bulk product upload00 Ratings8.026 Ratings
Branding00 Ratings6.526 Ratings
Mobile storefront00 Ratings4.128 Ratings
Product variations00 Ratings9.526 Ratings
Website integration00 Ratings8.024 Ratings
Visual customization00 Ratings6.527 Ratings
CMS00 Ratings8.526 Ratings
Online Shopping Cart
Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of Product A and Product B
Laravel PHP Framework
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Ratings
Magento Open Source
8.0
28 Ratings
6% above category average
Abandoned cart recovery00 Ratings7.023 Ratings
Checkout user experience00 Ratings9.028 Ratings
Online Payment System
Comparison of Online Payment System features of Product A and Product B
Laravel PHP Framework
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Ratings
Magento Open Source
6.6
26 Ratings
23% below category average
eCommerce security00 Ratings6.626 Ratings
eCommerce Marketing
Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Laravel PHP Framework
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Ratings
Magento Open Source
4.2
28 Ratings
56% below category average
Promotions & discounts00 Ratings5.628 Ratings
Personalized recommendations00 Ratings2.122 Ratings
SEO00 Ratings5.025 Ratings
eCommerce Business Management
Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of Product A and Product B
Laravel PHP Framework
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Ratings
Magento Open Source
9.1
28 Ratings
16% above category average
Multi-site management00 Ratings9.525 Ratings
Order processing00 Ratings9.527 Ratings
Inventory management00 Ratings9.525 Ratings
Shipping00 Ratings8.524 Ratings
Custom functionality00 Ratings8.526 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Laravel PHP FrameworkMagento Open Source
Small Businesses
CodeIgniter
CodeIgniter
Score 8.0 out of 10
Ecwid by Lightspeed
Ecwid by Lightspeed
Score 10.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Symfony
Symfony
Score 9.3 out of 10
IBM Digital Commerce
IBM Digital Commerce
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises

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IBM Digital Commerce
IBM Digital Commerce
Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Laravel PHP FrameworkMagento Open Source
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(17 ratings)
8.5
(29 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Laravel PHP FrameworkMagento Open Source
Likelihood to Recommend
Open Source
Laravel is ideally suited for fluent PHP developers who want a framework that can be used to both rapidly prototype web applications as well as support scalable, enterprise-level solutions. I think where it is less ideal is where the client has an expectation of using a certain CMS, or of having a certain experience on the admin side that would perhaps be better suited to a full CMS such as Drupal or WordPress. Additionally, for developers who don't want to write PHP code, Laravel may not be the best solution.
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Adobe
It's well suited for large eCommerce stores as it requires much effort to set up and the development cost for setting it up is high. It's less appropriate to use Magento where you are looking for quick development and launch of the store. Also, it is required to have a developer or sometimes the entire tech team to manage an e-commerce store, so you may need to hire a few PHP developers.
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Pros
Open Source
  • Many libraries available which simplify integration of SaaS APIs within your application (eg, MailChimp, Mandrill, Stripe, Authorize.net)
  • Pre-packaged tools to facilitate common tasks when building applications (eg, User Authentication and Authorization, Background Jobs, Queues, etc)
  • Support for a broad set of technologies out of the box (eg, PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, MemcacheD, BeanstalkD, Redis, etc)
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Adobe
  • Magento is perfect if our web design client likes a specific pre-made template and wants a fast solution.
  • Magento allows us to customize its open-source code to create additional features and functionality.
  • Magento saves small businesses time and money if they only need a simple solution.
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Cons
Open Source
  • Significant learning curve. You cannot be an expert in a week. It takes many experimentations to properly understand the underlying concept. We ourselves learned it by using it on the job.
  • Too much to soak in. Laravel is in everything. Any part of backend development you wish to do, Laravel has a way to do that. It is great, but also overwhelming at the same time.
  • Vendor lock in. Once you are in Laravel, it would not be easy to switch to something else.
  • Laracasts (their online video tutorials) are paid :( I understand the logic behind it, but I secretly wish it would be free.
  • The eloquent ORM is not my recommendation. Let's say you want to write a join, and based on the result you wish to create two objects. If you use Laravel to do automatic joins for you, Laravel internally actually makes two calls to database and creates your two object rather than making one join call and figuring out the results. This makes your queries slow. For this reason, I use everything except eloquent from Laravel. I rather write my own native queries and control the creation of objects then rely on Laravel to do it. But I am sure with time Laravel will make fewer calls to DB.
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Adobe
  • Not the simplest of solutions to use or maintain from an end-user perspective
  • Other platforms are better with regards to SEO in our experience
  • Fairly sluggish and slow compared to other platforms without the correct server specification and performance optimization work.
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Likelihood to Renew
Open Source
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Adobe
It's the dominant force in the SMB open source market. With the continued support of eBay/PayPal, Magento will continue to evolve and should be a market leader for some time.
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Alternatives Considered
Open Source
Supporting unit testing is bigger plus point in Laravel than any other framework. Developing with Laravel is much easier. Other frameworks have value in market, but Laravel has taken the lead in popularity among PHP developers in recent years. The large community supports you if you have problems. Using Laravel, integration became easy with third-party libraries, but it was costly too.
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Adobe
In looking at a different platform to migrate to from Magento 1, we looked primarily at Big Commerce, Shopify and Shopify Plus. Our host was very negative about Magento 2, but we determined after a couple years it was due to the fact it had even more complexity (and very different) than Magento 1. Shopify Plus was attractive, but the cost factor for two sites led us back to Magento 2.
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Return on Investment
Open Source
  • Laravel allows us to rapidly prototype and build complete, scalable applications internally, which saves us time and allows us to have internal tools that fit out precise needs. We use Symfony for a similar purpose, but Laravel is an even higher-level framework that we find saves us substantially more time when building many types of web applications.
  • Laravel solves many of the underlying concerns of building a large application (such as authentication, authorization, secure input handling) in the right ways. It saves us from handling those low-level concerns ourselves, potentially in a way that could take a lot of time or sets us up for issues in the future. It's tough to assign an ROI to this, but I'm sure it has prevented issues and saved time, which both have an impact on our financial situation.
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Adobe
  • Delays in development leads to missed timelines and opportunity loss.
  • High cost of development and maintenance may currently outweigh the growth.
  • Better handling of customer and order information makes for better customer service.
  • Excellent API has been a boon for integration with our ERP
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