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Laravel vs Spring Boot

Security & risk comparison · Updated October 2026

How does Laravel compare to Spring Boot 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 Spring Boot's 65/100. Laravel has 50 total CVEs compared to Spring Boot's 250, giving it a smaller vulnerability surface. (Source: WebPulse framework scoring, NIST NVD and CISA KEV, updated October 2026)

Who actually runs Laravel and Spring Boot

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

WhereLaravelSpring Boot
Top 1,000 0.0% (0) 0.0% (0)
Top 10,000 0.6% (15) 0.0% (1)
Top 100,000 1.0% (282) 0.0% (12)
Wider web0.0%0.0%

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 Spring Boot

  1. easports.com#6,596
  2. origin.com#11,423
  3. popcap.com#14,037
  4. fit-pay.com#25,629
  5. battlefield.com#30,502

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

70
Laravel
Modern · PHP
vs
65
Spring Boot
Modern · JAVA
Dimension-by-dimension breakdown
security Laravel
72
55
Laravel
Spring Boot
performance Tie
65
65
Laravel
Spring Boot
ecosystem Laravel
80
72
Laravel
Spring Boot
ai readiness Spring Boot
74
80
Laravel
Spring Boot
developer experience Laravel
80
70
Laravel
Spring Boot
market trajectory Spring Boot
60
65
Laravel
Spring Boot
cost of ownership Tie
60
60
Laravel
Spring Boot
Security details
Metric Laravel Spring Boot
Total CVEs 50 250
Critical CVEs 5 25
Exploited (KEV) 0 3
CVEs last year 10 30
Avg CVSS 5.0 6.0
Security score 72/100 55/100
Acceptable
Laravel

Laravel scores 71/100. Verdict: Acceptable.

Acceptable
Spring Boot

Spring Boot scores 66/100. Verdict: Acceptable.

Quick facts
Laravel
Category: Backend
Language: PHP
First release: 2011
Generation: Modern
Trend: Rising
Market share: 1.8%
Spring Boot
Category: Backend
Language: JAVA
First release: 2014
Generation: Modern
Trend: Rising
Market share: 2.0%
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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.