Providers / Laravel Cloud
Laravel Cloud
Laravel-native deploys with managed databases and scale to zero.
cloud.laravel.com · Prices checked 2026-08-06
- Type
- App platform
- Starting cost
- ≈$5/mo
- Free tier
- Yes
- Ease of use
- 5/5
Laravel Cloud is an opinionated app platform for Laravel, Symfony, Next.js, and Nuxt projects. It deploys from Git, builds a managed runtime, puts every app behind a global edge network, and offers first-party MySQL, Postgres, queues, caches, object storage, and WebSockets.
Good to know
- Starter costs $5/month plus usage, although its $5 monthly usage credit can cover a tiny app that frequently scales to zero.
- Autoscaling and dedicated worker clusters require the $20/month Growth plan or higher.
- The platform supports a defined set of frameworks and runtimes; it is not a general-purpose Docker host.
- Databases, caches, object storage, and WebSockets bill separately from app compute.
App platform
Laravel Cloud
- Best for
- Laravel teams that want the framework, database, queues, scheduler, cache, and deploy workflow managed as one platform.
- How deploys work
- Connect a Git repository or run cloud ship; Laravel Cloud builds the supported runtime and deploys every push with zero downtime.
- The tradeoff
- The excellent Laravel experience comes from an opinionated runtime, so arbitrary containers and server-level access are out.
Why pick it
- The smoothest path from a Laravel repository to a production app.
- First-party MySQL, Postgres, queues, Valkey, object storage, and Reverb fit Laravel conventions.
- Flex compute scales to zero and wakes in under 500 milliseconds.
- A Cloudflare-powered CDN, DDoS protection, and automatic TLS are built in.
- The CLI and API cover deployments, resources, logs, commands, and database access.
Why look elsewhere
- Starter is not permanently free: it costs $5/month after the first month.
- Autoscaling and dedicated workers start with the $20/month Growth plan.
- No custom Docker images or SSH access for workloads outside the supported runtimes.
- The final bill combines the plan fee, app compute, and each attached resource.
Our ratings
What developers say
First-person reports from the past three years, drawn from public discussions and independent write-ups. These are individual experiences, not our ratings; open the original source for its workload and full context. Critical reports include a follow-up check so you can see whether the problem was fixed, partly addressed, remains current, or has no public resolution.
What people like 10 sources
Operators report spinning up demo applications in production within minutes, and one says they moved a production site after testing the platform.
Laravel Cloud is live now!A customer with a 26 GB database welcomes the reduced PostgreSQL storage charge and says the savings make paid backups practical.
New Laravel Cloud PricingA non-DevOps technical product manager says three migrations exceeded expectations, configuration and deploys were manageable, and Slack support handled both requests well.
ISO: Laravel Cloud ReviewsAn operator reports that one queue-cluster replica runs nine workers for about $7 monthly and that time-to-empty autoscaling saves money on spiky workloads.
Experience with Laravel Cloud after the pricing changes?An agency's hands-on review says an application and database deployed in under ten minutes, autoscaling handled traffic spikes, and the elastic Laravel developer experience was excellent.
Laravel Cloud Review 2026The agency calls setup straightforward, Git deploys clean and predictable, and queues and workers first-class, with low operational overhead.
Our Experience with Laravel Cloud (So Far)After a month of staging, a developer moved a real production app without code changes and describes the cutover as uneventful, with two minor issues quickly fixed.
Moving a Production Laravel App to Laravel CloudThe Laravel News operator documents a completed live production migration from a Forge-managed server to Cloud, including application, services, workers, storage, DNS, and verification.
Migrating Laravel News from Laravel Forge to CloudAn agency describes a production client requirement and a working uv-plus-Composer method for installing Python dependencies alongside Laravel on Cloud.
How to Run Python Scripts on Laravel CloudThe author documents a successful firsthand deployment including project creation, database, queue, environment variables, and final production release.
How to Deploy Laravel to Laravel CloudCritical reports and follow-ups 10 sources
An early user found setup quick but reported hibernated-app wake times of roughly 8–18 seconds and costs too high for the workload.
First impression of Laravel CloudA startup operator says bandwidth drove the bill to about $155 and moved the workload to a roughly $60 Forge-and-Hetzner setup because cost was hard to understand.
My experience with Laravel Cloud after 4 monthsAn operator reports costs rising from a $6 VPS to about $80, intermittent outages lasting up to twenty minutes, slow support, and severe latency spikes.
I hate to admit this, but Laravel Cloud is nowhere near production-readyAn early-access tester says only starter-style Laravel applications worked out of the box among the applications they tried.
Laravel Cloud early accessAn early customer expected a tiny application's compute to be hibernated but received a bill for almost a full month of runtime and could not see when hibernation had applied.
Got my first Laravel Cloud invoice this morningA developer says the same staging app was markedly slower than on AWS, with plain Blade responses exceeding 100 ms even after trying expensive instance sizes.
How do you find Laravel Cloud performance so far?An operator reports deployments and applications failing with cache TLS or DNS errors while waiting more than a day for support.
Our environments are broken on Laravel CloudA multi-tenant SaaS operator says they evaluated Cloud but rejected it because required infrastructure and realtime-service flexibility were not yet available, choosing AWS ECS instead.
Migrating our multi-tenant Laravel app to AWS ECS with minimal impactA prospective migration discussion surfaces operator concern about recurring downtime and whether the managed platform is dependable enough for production infrastructure.
Laravel Cloud reliability and downtimesAn operator reports cold queue warm-up exceeding twenty seconds and sometimes outlasting frontend polling, while another says the managed-queue change doubled worker cost and is memory-hungry.
Cloud managed queues — warm up is very slowApp platform
Laravel Cloud
New Starter subscriptions get their first month free; after that, Starter costs $5/month and includes $5 in monthly usage credit.
What you'd realistically pay
| Project stage | Estimate | Based on |
|---|---|---|
| Just starting | ≈$5/mo | Starter — The $5 subscription includes $5 of monthly usage credit; a small app and database that scale to zero can stay inside it. |
| Steady traffic | ≈$12/mo | Starter + always-on Flex 1GB — One always-on Flex 1GB app instance reaches a $12 monthly compute cap; the $5 usage credit offsets the $5 Starter fee. |
| Growing | ≈$68.90/mo | Growth + medium SaaS resources — The official medium-SaaS example is about $53.90 in usage; add the $20 Growth fee and subtract its $5 usage credit. |
Published prices
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | $5/mo | $5/month plus usage, with $5 in monthly usage credit. |
| Growth | $20/mo | $20/month plus usage; adds autoscaling, Pro compute, worker clusters, WAF, and preview environments. |
| Flex 1GB app compute | $12/mo | About $0.01786/hour, billed per second and capped at 28 days of runtime per billing cycle. |
- Every paid plan includes $5 in monthly usage credits, which reset each billing cycle.
- Flex compute bills per second while awake, scales to zero when idle, and is capped at 28 days of runtime per billing cycle.
- Each compute size earns a data-transfer allowance; overage is $0.10/GB.
- Managed databases, caches, queues, object storage, and WebSockets have separate usage charges.
Deploy workflow
| Deploy from Git push Connect a repository and every push deploys automatically. | Yes Connect a Git repository and every push to the configured branch deploys automatically. |
|---|---|
| Preview deploys Each branch or pull request gets its own temporary URL. | Partial Starter includes one preview environment; broader preview workflows are available on higher plans. |
| Official CLI A maintained command-line tool for deploys and management. | Yes The cloud CLI deploys apps and manages environments, resources, logs, and commands. |
| Instant rollbacks Revert to a previous deploy without rebuilding. | Partial You can redeploy an older Git commit, but there is no documented one-click rollback workflow. |
Platform
| Custom domains + HTTPS Bring your own domain with TLS certificates handled. | Yes Custom domains and automatically renewed TLS certificates are included on every plan. |
|---|---|
| Built-in CDN / edge network Static assets served from locations near your visitors. | Yes A Cloudflare-powered global edge network caches static assets and cacheable responses automatically. |
| Serverless functions Run backend code without managing a server process. | No Laravel Cloud runs server-based application compute rather than serverless functions. |
| Docker containers Deploy your own container image. | No The platform builds its own optimized images and does not accept arbitrary Docker images. |
| SSH / shell access Open a shell on the machine running your app. | No There is no SSH shell; use one-off commands, Tinker, logs, or the CLI instead. |
| EU hosting region Run the app itself in a European data center. | Yes Frankfurt, Ireland, and London regions are available alongside North America and Asia Pacific. |
Runtime & operations
| Automatic scaling Capacity grows with traffic without manual resizing. | Partial Growth can autoscale up to 10 replicas; unlimited scaling requires Business or higher. |
|---|---|
| Scale to zero Costs stop (or pause) when nobody is using the app. | Yes Flex app compute scales to zero when idle and wakes in under 500 milliseconds. |
| Scheduled jobs Run code on a schedule without an external trigger. | Yes Laravel scheduled tasks are supported and automatically wake sleeping environments. |
| Managed database A database the provider runs, backs up, and updates. | Yes Managed Laravel MySQL and serverless Postgres are provisioned directly from the platform. |
| Logs & metrics built in See what the app is doing without wiring up third parties. | Partial Application logs and CPU and memory metrics are built in, with retention tied to the plan. |
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