Laravel Cloud vs strackt — honest comparison — strackt [ ](/ "Home") [How It Works](/how-it-works) [Pricing](/pricing) [Company](/company) [ How It Works ](/how-it-works) [ Pricing ](/pricing) [ Company ](/company) Comparison ---------- Laravel Cloud vs strackt ======================== Same experience. Your infrastructure. Flat-rate pricing. Laravel Cloud is excellent. It's the closest match in the market for the kind of experience strackt builds toward — push your code, it's live, the platform handles the rest. We respect what the Laravel team shipped. The disagreement isn't about experience; it's about who owns the infrastructure and how the bill scales. If their answer fits how you want to run your applications, pick Laravel Cloud. This page is for the developers who love the experience but don't love being locked into someone else's substrate at usage-based prices. Where Laravel Cloud wins ------------------------ We start here on purpose. ------------------------- Laravel Cloud has real, specific strengths that strackt doesn't have today. - **Global Cloudflare CDN bundled.** Laravel Cloud terminates incoming requests at hundreds of Cloudflare edge locations, runs DDoS mitigation and a Web Application Firewall there, and caches static assets near your users — all out of the box. Your application *compute* still runs in one AWS region you assign (LC has multi-region compute on its 2026 roadmap, not yet shipping). With strackt, you can put Cloudflare in front of your VPS yourself for the same edge layer, but it's not bundled. The bundled edge-plus-WAF is a real LC convenience. - **PHP CDN and serverless-edge primitives.** Things like Laravel's edge runtime and CDN-aware caching are first-class on Laravel Cloud. We don't have an equivalent today. - **Same-team-as-Laravel pedigree.** Laravel Cloud ships from the team that builds Laravel. New framework features land with platform-native support. Pulse, Reverb, and Octane tuning are integrated as platform features, not user concerns. - **Zero-VPS setup.** You don't think about a server, a provider, a region, or a VPS specification. You push and they handle the substrate. For developers who specifically don't want to own a VPS, that's the right answer. - **A whole Laravel team behind it.** The support channel is the same team that builds the framework. Full team capacity, framework-team backing. strackt is a solo founder project — async ticketing only, smaller capacity. If team-backed support is a hard requirement for your business, Laravel Cloud is the right pick on that axis alone. Where strackt fits ------------------ Same experience. Your infrastructure. ------------------------------------- A developer running on Laravel Cloud (or Vercel, or Railway). The setup works. They're not unhappy with the experience. But they see the bill, look at what a €4 Hetzner VPS can do, and think: "I could get the same experience for a fraction of this." They don't want to downgrade to a server panel — they want the same push-and-deploy experience, just without the platform tax. - **Same push-and-deploy experience.** Connect your repository. We detect your stack. Push your code, it's live. Zero-downtime. Automatic. No migration in your workflow. - **Your infrastructure, your provider, your data.** strackt runs your applications on a VPS you own — Hetzner, DigitalOcean, OVH, anywhere. Your data lives where you put it. Move providers and the configuration travels with you as code. - **Flat-rate pricing.** First app is on us. Every app after is €4/month. No tiers, no brackets, no usage-based compute or bandwidth surcharges. The bill is the bill. - **No usage-based surprises.** A traffic spike on Laravel Cloud changes your bill. A traffic spike on strackt does not. - **You can always SSH in.** The substrate isn't a black box. Full SSH with sudo. strackt enforces the server's specification continuously, so manual changes get reverted on the next configuration cycle — that's the feature, not a limitation. Side by side ------------ Numbers as of April 2026; verify on the official Laravel Cloud site linked next to every Laravel Cloud cell. Laravel Cloud strackt Experience Platform — push and it works Platform — push and it works Infrastructure Theirs (AWS-backed, locked in) Yours (any VPS, any provider) Pricing model Usage-based: compute + bandwidth + storage ([live](https://cloud.laravel.com/pricing)) Flat-rate: €4/app/mo + your VPS cost Bill at scale Grows with traffic and usage Fixed — your VPS + your subscription Data residency Their regions Your choice — pick a VPS anywhere Server access Black box Full SSH Disaster recovery Platform-dependent Instant rollback (seconds) + blueprint rebuild (minutes) Edge / CDN Cloudflare CDN bundled — cache + DDoS + WAF at hundreds of edge locations Bring your own Cloudflare (or any CDN) in front of your VPS App compute regions One AWS region per app today; multi-region planned for 2026 One VPS per app, in any region you choose to provision Framework support Laravel only Laravel-focused Team behind it Laravel team — full support capacity, framework-team backing Solo founder project — async ticketing only, smaller capacity Exit strategy Migrate everything off Your server keeps running Total cost — what you actually pay each month --------------------------------------------- Hetzner CX22 (€4.50/mo) is the VPS baseline for the strackt column. Laravel Cloud is usage-based — these are reasonable ranges from public reporting; verify your specific case on the live link next to the Pricing row above. As of April 2026. Laravel Cloud strackt 1 app (side project) ~$15–25 **€4.50** (free + VPS) 3 apps (small SaaS) ~$40–80 **€12.50** (€8 + VPS) 8 apps (growing) ~$100–200 **€32.50** (€28 + VPS) 20 apps (agency) ~$300–500 **€80.50** (€76 + VPS) **Honest read.** strackt is 3–8× cheaper at every scale shown. The reason isn't a discount — it's a different model. Laravel Cloud runs on AWS, charges for compute / bandwidth / storage, and rolls a margin on top. strackt runs on the cheap VPS you already pay for, charges a flat per-app management fee, and that's the whole bill. If your scale is a single high-traffic application where AWS edge economics genuinely win, the math can flip. For most Laravel applications below that ceiling, the gap is large and consistent. When Laravel Cloud is the right pick ------------------------------------ We mean this. ------------- - You want the substrate handled. You don't want to think about a VPS, a provider, or a region. - Your audience is global and edge-runtime / multi-region matters more than predictable pricing. - You want first-party Laravel-team integration and support. - Your scale or shape (one massive app, lots of bursty traffic) makes per-VPS economics impractical. - You explicitly want a managed cloud with vendor responsibility for the substrate. Any of those — pick Laravel Cloud. We're not trying to change your mind. When strackt is the right pick ------------------------------ You love the experience. You don't love the bill. ------------------------------------------------- - You love the platform experience but don't love the usage-based bill. - You want to own your VPS, your provider, your data residency. - Predictable monthly cost matters more than multi-region edge. - A traffic spike shouldn't reshape your invoice. - You'd happily run a €4 Hetzner box if someone else managed it for you. Is the developer experience really the same? Push code, strackt deploys. Stack auto-detected from your repository. Zero-downtime deploys. Instant rollback. Continuous management. The day-to-day flow is the same shape as Laravel Cloud's. The substrate underneath is yours, not theirs. How does moving from Laravel Cloud to strackt actually work? We can't promise zero downtime — strackt doesn't control Laravel Cloud's routing or DNS. The path is honest: you pick a VPS provider (Hetzner, DigitalOcean, OVH, anywhere), strackt provisions a new VPS there, and we deploy your existing applications onto it. You verify everything on the new machine, then cut DNS over when you're ready. The cutover is in your hands. Your Laravel Cloud environment keeps serving traffic until you decide to retire it. What happens to my application if I leave strackt? Your VPS keeps running. The configuration that ran on it is yours. Your provider relationship is yours. You can take the server elsewhere, or keep running it as-is. Leaving strackt is something we make easy, not painful. Is strackt cheaper because it's worse? No. It's cheaper because the substrate is yours and the pricing model is flat per app instead of usage-based on someone else's cloud. Different math, not lower quality. Does strackt have edge / CDN like Laravel Cloud? Not bundled. Laravel Cloud ships with a global Cloudflare CDN by default — request termination at the edge, DDoS protection, WAF, cache near your users. That part is a real convenience. But here's the honest read on the rest: your app compute on Laravel Cloud runs in one AWS region you assign — the global feel comes from Cloudflare, not from multi-region compute. LC has multi-region compute on its 2026 roadmap, but it isn't shipping today. With strackt, your application runs on your VPS in whichever region you provision; you can put Cloudflare in front of that VPS yourself and get the same edge layer LC bundles. It's not built in for you, but it's not far away either. If you specifically want a managed CDN bundled with the platform, Laravel Cloud is still the right pick. Multi-region compute is on our roadmap too; we'll say so explicitly when it ships. Who's behind strackt, and what's your support capacity? Honest answer: strackt is a solo founder project today. One developer (Jan Peter), pre-launch, building toward the first cohort. Support is async ticketing — developer-to-developer, no 24/7 phone lines. Laravel Cloud ships from the team that builds Laravel itself; that team has more capacity than we do, and framework-team backing is something we can't match. If support volume or response-time guarantees are a hard requirement for your business, that gap is real. Early access is invite-based and small on purpose so the support load stays manageable while we grow into it. Same experience. Your infrastructure. Flat bill. ------------------------------------------------ If Laravel Cloud is what you want and the bill works for you, stay. If you've been doing the math on your own VPS but couldn't bring yourself to downgrade to a server panel, strackt is the path you've been looking for. Same push-and-deploy. A VPS at the provider you choose, provisioned by strackt and owned by you. Your data. 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