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

Build cost favours WordPress at small scale, total cost of ownership often favours Laravel at large scale. A 5 to 10 page WordPress marketing site can ship in 2 to 4 weeks for $5,000 to $15,000. A comparable custom Laravel site costs $15,000 to $40,000. As complexity grows the curves cross. A WordPress application with 40 plus plugins, custom code, ongoing security patching, and plugin licence fees often costs $20,000 to $40,000 per year to maintain. A clean Laravel application of comparable complexity typically costs $15,000 to $30,000 per year to maintain because there is no plugin licence churn and the maintenance is predictable engineering. Full breakdown sits on our Laravel development cost page.