Laravel Forge pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
Laravel Forge (forge.laravel.com) is a server control panel. Flat monthly subscription in three tiers (Hobby, Growth, Business) with no per-seat or usage fees; Hobby allows one external server, Growth and Business allow unlimited servers, and cloud server bills. No free plan.
What Laravel Forge costs
- 1 server: $12/mo (Hobby at $12/mo monthly billing: 1 external server and unlimited sites match the yardstick. Hobby is marketed for client work, so commercial use is assumed. Server bill excluded.)
- 5 servers: $19/mo (Growth at $19/mo monthly billing: Hobby allows only 1 external server, while Growth has unlimited servers, unlimited sites and team sharing. The FAQ describes flat-rate pricing (subscription plus cloud bills only), so no per-seat fee is added; the users-included count did not load, so 3 seats are assumed covered.)
Plan compared: Hobby plan at monthly billing: 1 external server, unlimited sites. The panel or management fee only, per month on monthly billing; the servers you rent cost extra and aren't included. A free self-hosted edition counts as $0 when it allows commercial use and covers the scenario.
What Laravel Forge does
Core: Git push deploys (partly), Always-on app servers (partly), Workers and cron jobs, Bring your own cloud, Sites and apps on your server, Cloud server provisioning, Hosted dashboard.
Important: Full-stack framework support (partly), Databases from the dashboard (partly), Root-access virtual servers (partly), Automated site backups (partly), Team roles and permissions (partly), Server health monitoring (partly), Multi-server scaling (partly).
Also has: Static site hosting (partly), Global multi-region compute (partly), Persistent volumes (partly), Templates and add-on marketplace (partly), EU data sovereignty (partly), Docker and any-language apps (partly), Client and reseller accounts (partly), Firewall & malware protection (partly), API, CLI and AI agents (partly).
Laravel Forge price hikes
No price hikes on record for Laravel Forge.
Cheaper alternatives to Laravel Forge
At 1 server with 10 sites, Laravel Forge costs $12/mo. 1 server control panel costs less:
- Coolify: free (Self-hosted edition (free), 1 server with 10 apps and 1 admin), covers 78% of Laravel Forge; missing or partial: Workers and cron jobs (partly), Bring your own cloud (partly), Cloud server provisioning (partly), Root-access virtual servers, Global multi-region compute
Laravel Forge alternatives: 3 server control panels compared, at every size.
Other kinds of products that cover part of Laravel Forge
- Heroku (Hosting): covers 73% of Laravel Forge; missing or partial: Cloud server provisioning, Hosted dashboard, Client and reseller accounts
- Railway (Hosting): covers 73% of Laravel Forge; missing or partial: Cloud server provisioning, Hosted dashboard, Client and reseller accounts
- Render (Hosting): covers 73% of Laravel Forge; missing or partial: Cloud server provisioning, Hosted dashboard, Client and reseller accounts
- Hostinger (Web & WordPress hosting): covers 31% of Laravel Forge; missing or partial: Sites and apps on your server, Cloud server provisioning, Hosted dashboard, Team roles and permissions, Server health monitoring
Sources
Pricing page: laravel.com/forge/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Monthly prices and plan limits come from the official pricing page (laravel.com/forge/pricing, reached by a 301 from forge.laravel.com/pricing), and annual prices are PricingSaaS figures dated Sep 28, 2026. No price change is verified: PricingSaaS covers only from Jun 2026 (one support-level rename) and the web search budget ran out before 2020-2026 history could be checked, so changes is empty for lack of evidence rather than proof that none happened.