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Laravel vs Django

Security & risk comparison · Updated October 2026

How does Laravel compare to Django on security, AI-readiness, and total cost of ownership? We scored both across 7 dimensions using NVD/NIST CVE data, GitHub metrics, and our census of the Tranco top 100,000.

Key finding

Laravel scores 70/100 overall versus Django's 67/100. Laravel has 50 total CVEs compared to Django's 120, giving it a smaller vulnerability surface. (Source: WebPulse framework scoring, NIST NVD and CISA KEV, updated October 2026)

Who actually runs Laravel and Django

Share of sites with an identified platform, from WebPulse's scan of the Tranco top 100,000 and our Common Crawl census.

WhereLaravelDjango
Top 1,000 0.0% (0) 0.0% (0)
Top 10,000 0.6% (15) 0.5% (14)
Top 100,000 1.0% (282) 0.6% (165)
Wider web0.0%0.4%

Highest-ranked sites on Laravel

  1. toyhou.se#1,430
  2. ihc.ru#2,766
  3. trafficjunky.net#2,876
  4. registry.in#2,898
  5. uba.ar#7,147

Highest-ranked sites on Django

  1. parallels.com#2,648
  2. namasha.com#3,080
  3. kdocs.cn#3,357
  4. cwi.nl#4,261
  5. nic.cz#5,988

Detected from each homepage's HTML, headers and cookies in September 2026. Methodology

70
Laravel
Modern · PHP
vs
67
Django
Modern · PYTHON
Dimension-by-dimension breakdown
security Laravel
72
68
Laravel
Django
performance Tie
65
65
Laravel
Django
ecosystem Laravel
80
75
Laravel
Django
ai readiness Django
74
75
Laravel
Django
developer experience Laravel
80
70
Laravel
Django
market trajectory Laravel
60
55
Laravel
Django
cost of ownership Tie
60
60
Laravel
Django
Security details
Metric Laravel Django
Total CVEs 50 120
Critical CVEs 5 12
Exploited (KEV) 0 1
CVEs last year 10 12
Avg CVSS 5.0 5.5
Security score 72/100 68/100
Acceptable
Laravel

Laravel scores 71/100. Verdict: Acceptable.

Acceptable
Django

Django scores 68/100. Verdict: Acceptable.

Quick facts
Laravel
Category: Backend
Language: PHP
First release: 2011
Generation: Modern
Trend: Rising
Market share: 1.8%
Django
Category: Backend
Language: PYTHON
First release: 2005
Generation: Modern
Trend: Rising
Market share: 1.2%
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Data sourced from NVD/NIST CVE database, GitHub API, and WebPulse framework scanner. Scores calculated using a 7-dimension model covering security, performance, ecosystem health, AI-readiness, developer experience, market trajectory, and cost of ownership. Updated October 2026.