Comparison

Where Laraspring is the right buy, and where it is not.

A comparison page written by the vendor is worth roughly nothing unless it is willing to lose. This one is. Three of the four alternatives below are good products, and one of them is free.

How to read the table

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Feature comparison of Laravel and TypeScript SaaS starter kits
	Laraspring	Jetstream	Larafast	SaaSykit	supastarter
Stack	Laravel 12 + Inertia + React	Laravel, first-party	Laravel	Laravel + Filament	Next.js or Nuxt, TypeScript
Price model	€299 / €799 / €1,499 once	Free, MIT	Paid, one-time	Paid, one-time	Paid, one-time
Shipped as	Composer packages you install	Code scaffolded into your app	A repository you copy	A repository you copy	A monorepo you copy
Upgrades after you start	composer update, your app untouched	Manual; scaffolding is yours now	Merge from their repo	Merge from their repo	Merge from their repo
Subscription billing	Stripe, hosted checkout and portal	Not included	Yes	Yes	Yes
Multi-tenant organizations	Roles, invitations, seats, tenancy re-checked every request	Teams with roles and invitations	Check theirs	Check theirs	Yes
Agent conventions in the repo	AGENTS.md, 7 skills, 6 gates	No	Check theirs	Check theirs	Check theirs
Tests shipped with the kit	650, across 9 suites	A small suite	Check theirs	Check theirs	Check theirs
Translated out of the box	English and Spanish, screens and email	English	Check theirs	Check theirs	Yes
Admin panel with impersonation	Yes, audited	No	Check theirs	Yes, through Filament	Check theirs

Laraspring’s prices exclude VAT. The others’ prices are theirs to state and change, so we do not quote numbers for them.

The four, one at a time

Laravel Jetstream and the official starter kits

Where it wins: it is free, it is first-party, and it will be maintained by the Laravel team for as long as Laravel exists. Jetstream already gives you authentication, two-factor, browser sessions, API tokens and teams with roles and invitations. If what you are building is not a subscription business, or you are happy writing billing and an admin panel yourself, a paid kit is money you do not need to spend. Start there.

Where Laraspring differs: billing, an admin panel with audited impersonation, presigned uploads, a translated product and a tenant boundary that is re-checked on every request rather than set at login. And the scaffolding difference is the one that shows up in year two: Jetstream publishes code into your application and it becomes yours to maintain, while Laraspring’s domains stay Composer dependencies that an upgrade replaces.

Larafast

Where it wins: breadth and time on the market. It is a mature commercial Laravel boilerplate with several payment providers, a long list of integrations and more than one frontend flavour, and it has been sold and supported for years. If you want the widest pile of pre-built marketing, blog and integration features, look there first.

Where Laraspring differs: it is narrower on purpose. Eight domains, each an installable package with its own isolated suite, instead of a large repository you copy and then diverge from. If your judgement is that a boilerplate’s real cost is the upgrade you can never take, that is the trade Laraspring is making.

SaaSykit

Where it wins: Filament. If you and your team already work in Filament, you get an admin experience out of the box that no hand-rolled panel matches, plus a plan and subscription setup you configure through a UI rather than in code. That is a genuinely faster path to an internal tool.

Where Laraspring differs: no Filament dependency, for better and for worse. The admin panel is ordinary Inertia pages in your own layout, behind one ability, which means less power and one fewer large framework to track. And the customer-facing product is a React application rather than Blade and Livewire.

supastarter

Where it wins: it is the polished reference for this category, and if your team writes TypeScript end to end, a Next.js or Nuxt monorepo is the coherent choice. Its organizations, billing and i18n are the shape Laraspring is aiming at, and its documentation is excellent.

Where Laraspring differs: it is not a competitor so much as the other side of a language decision. If you want Laravel, Eloquent, queues, Cashier and PHP hosting, supastarter is not for you no matter how good it is. If you want the whole product in TypeScript, Laraspring is not.

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