Developer tools decision
Larafast
A competent developer can build and maintain a minimal Larafast replacement using existing open-source SaaS boilerplates; nothing on the product page claims durable moats that would prevent replacement.
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Not priced
No pricing page we fetched carried a figure, so there is nothing to compare against. The build side is still real.
$100one-off160 h to build
$35/mo3 h/mo upkeep
No published price to break even against.
Open-source builds that already do this
Every project below is open source and already does this job today. Fork one, self-host it, or take the parts you need - the build prompt further down assumes an empty file, and this is the shortcut past that. Licences differ; check the one on each card before you ship. All Larafast alternatives, with the arithmetic →
What a replacement has to do
- Provide a minimal Laravel-based SaaS starter that lets one developer onboard users, accept payments, manage subscriptions, and administer accounts.
What it still won’t have
- Vendor polish, UX and documentation
- Ongoing security hardening, frequent updates, and fixes provided by commercial maintainer
- Prebuilt integrations with many third-party services
- Commercial support and SLAs
- Any proprietary tooling or branded value Larafast might provide
What remains hard
- Product polish and ongoing maintenance
First-year cost
No published price
Larafast does not publish a price we could read, so there is nothing to compare against. What building costs is below.
Money you would actually spend
Time you would spend
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What you would spend
What we assumed
The verdict above measures whether you could build it. This one is only about money.
Runnable build prompt
Build a minimal Laravel 10 SaaS starter kit using PHP 8+, Laravel, Postgres, Redis (queues), and AWS S3 for file storage. In scope: user auth (register, login, password reset, email verification) using Laravel Breeze or Jetstream; team/organization model; Stripe billing and subscriptions via Laravel Cashier with checkout and webhook handlers; Postgres schema and Eloquent models; an admin dashboard to view users and subscription status; background job workers and queue configuration; S3 upload endpoints and signed URLs; basic tests (feature and unit) and error handling for webhooks and payment failures. Out of scope: multi-tenant isolation beyond a simple teams table, analytics dashboards beyond counts, advanced third-party integrations, and paid UX polish. Include CI to run tests, Docker-based local dev environment, documentation for deploy and Stripe/S3 setup, and health/error logging.
How we checked
How the score was reached
- Partly verdict base52
- An open-source build was found+5
- 3 cited sources+3
- 3/3 assessment runs agreed+4
- Evidence score64
The base comes from the verdict. Everything under it is a check that either happened or did not, and each one is a fact frozen in this record rather than a judgement made at render time - so the same evidence always produces the same number.
How scoring works →Cited sources · 3
Every page the run actually retrieved.
- official productLarafast - Laravel SaaS Starter Kit | Larafast
- open sourcewasp-lang/open-saas
- open sourcethedevdojo/wave
Integrity checks
What held up, and what did not.
