Should I use Laravel or Symfony for my project?

Pick Laravel when you want faster development, a gentler learning curve, the broadest first party ecosystem for web application features, and excellent developer experience. It suits most web applications, SaaS products, and teams that value shipping speed. Pick Symfony when you need maximum architectural control, are building a large enterprise system with strict structure requirements, want a component based approach where you assemble exactly what you need, or are working in an organisation that has standardised on Symfony. Both are first class PHP frameworks; in fact Laravel is built on top of many Symfony components, so the choice is less adversarial than it looks.