Is Laravel faster than CodeIgniter?

Out of the box CodeIgniter is marginally faster on simple request benchmarks because it has less framework overhead. The story flips at any non trivial scale or feature set. Laravel with Octane (FrankenPHP or RoadRunner) and Horizon outperforms CodeIgniter on real world workloads because the framework handles the things that actually slow applications down: queue offload, query optimisation, caching, broadcasting. Benchmark numbers favouring CodeIgniter typically test 'hello world' style requests that do not exist in production applications.