What is the total cost of ownership: Laravel or Symfony?

For most web applications Laravel has lower total cost of ownership because faster development, a larger talent pool, and the breadth of first party packages reduce both build and maintenance effort. Symfony can have competitive or lower total cost on large, long lived enterprise systems where its explicit structure prevents the architectural drift that hurts big codebases over time, and where the team is already Symfony skilled. The cost difference is dominated by project shape and team skill rather than the framework itself: standard web product favours Laravel, large structurally demanding enterprise system with a Symfony team can favour Symfony. Full breakdown sits on our Laravel development cost page.