Which is better for a startup MVP, Laravel or Django?

For a conventional web or SaaS MVP with no real ML core, Laravel usually ships faster because of the breadth of first party packages (auth, billing, admin, queues, real time) and the polished tooling, so the startup spends less runway on plumbing. For an MVP whose core value is a data or ML capability, Django lets the team keep the model and the web layer in one language, which can be faster when the data scientists and web developers are the same small team. Most early MVPs are conventional enough that Laravel is the faster path; see our Laravel for startups page for the MVP approach.