Filament admin panels, free, fast, and properly built.
Filament 3 admin panels for production Laravel applications. Free MIT licensed admin built on Livewire and Alpine, extended with custom resources, widgets, forms, tables, infolists, and Filament plugins by senior engineers who ship Filament builds week after week.
- Filament 3 with Panel Builder for multi-tenancy and multi-panel setups
- Custom resources, forms, tables, infolists, widgets, and actions
- Private Filament plugins packaged for reuse across your panels
- Free MIT licence, no per project fees, full ownership of the codebase
The most popular free admin for Laravel.
Filament, in plain terms.
Filament is a free MIT licensed admin panel framework for Laravel, built on Livewire 3, Alpine.js, and Tailwind CSS. Filament lets you define resources (admin views for Eloquent models) with form builders, table builders, infolists, widgets, and actions, all in PHP without writing JavaScript. It is the most popular Laravel admin panel by GitHub stars and community size in 2026, with a large ecosystem of free third party plugins.
Filament is the right call when you want a free admin panel, your team is already strong in Livewire and PHP, and you prefer fast iteration with PHP only customisations over Vue based extensibility. We have shipped Filament panels for SaaS platforms, eCommerce stores, internal tools, and enterprise back offices since Filament 2 in 2022.
Signals your project is a good Filament candidate.
Filament is one of two excellent admin options for Laravel (the other being Nova). Filament fits some teams and projects better than others. If three or more of these apply, Filament is likely the right call.
You want a free MIT licensed admin with no per project fees. Your team is already shipping with Livewire and prefers PHP only customisations over Vue. You are building multiple admin panels across multiple projects or clients (no licence multiplication). You want fast iteration on custom fields and forms without context switching to a separate frontend toolchain. You need multi-panel or multi-tenant SaaS support through Filament's Panel Builder. You want a large community ecosystem with thousands of free third party plugins. You prefer Tailwind CSS for theming and design system work.
Both are excellent. Filament is our default.
Filament and Nova are the two production grade admin panel frameworks for Laravel. We build both. Filament is our default recommendation for new projects unless the team specifically prefers Vue or needs commercial Nova packages.
Pick Filament when
You want a free MIT licensed admin built on Livewire and Alpine, faster iteration with PHP only customisations, no per project licence fees, and a large community of free third party plugins.
Best for
- Teams strong in Livewire and PHP
- Multiple admin panels across projects (no per project fee)
- MIT licence preferred for total ownership
- Fast PHP only iteration valued over Vue extensibility
- Larger community of free plugins and packages
- Multi-tenant SaaS through native Panel Builder
Pick Nova when
You want first party Laravel support, a clean Vue.js interface, and a per project commercial licence that includes ongoing updates. Larger commercial ecosystem of paid third party packages.
Best for
- Teams comfortable with Vue.js
- Projects needing first party support
- Commercial Nova packages already in scope
- Single project per licence model preferred
- Vue based extensibility valued over PHP iteration speed
The honest rule: Filament wins on total cost of ownership for teams already shipping Livewire. Nova wins on first party support and Vue extensibility. For agencies running multiple admin panels across multiple clients, Filament saves real money (no per project fees). For enterprise projects with a strict commercial support requirement, Nova is the safer pick. Both produce excellent admins.
Everything a production Filament admin needs.
Not just resources. The full toolkit that takes a Filament admin from panel install to a polished, role scoped, multi-tenant ready admin panel.
Custom Filament resources
Resource per Eloquent model with the right form schema, the right table columns, sensible defaults, and proper relation managers wired in for relationship heavy data.
Forms & custom components
Filament form builder with 40 plus field types out of the box, plus custom form components for signature capture, geolocation pickers, rich JSON editors, and brand specific input types.
Tables, filters & bulk actions
Table builder with searchable, sortable, filterable columns. Custom filters for advanced search (date ranges, multi select, dependent filters). Bulk actions with confirmation flows.
Widgets & dashboards
Chart widgets (line, bar, pie, donut, area), stat widgets, table widgets, and custom Blade widgets for stakeholder dashboards. Real time updates through broadcasting when needed.
Infolists & read only views
Infolist component for read only resource detail pages. Tabs, sections, and grouped data presentation for resources that the operations team only views, never edits.
Custom Filament plugins
Private Filament plugins packaged for reuse across your panels. Signature capture, geolocation, Stripe Connect, audit log viewers, CSV import wizards, multi-tenant scoping.
Policies, RBAC & SSO
Laravel policies wired into Filament with Spatie Permission. Granular per resource, per field, per action permissions. SAML or OIDC SSO integration where needed.
Multi-panel & theming
Separate customer and back office panels through Filament's Panel Builder. Multi-tenancy with Stancl. Custom branding with Tailwind and Filament colour palettes.
Named senior engineers on every project.
Our Filament work is led by project managers who have shipped Filament panels since Filament 2 and know the framework's edges and strengths from production use.
Chirag Daxini
Project Manager, Livewire & Filament Lead
Six steps from resource map to launch.
Resource map in week one. Custom plugins packaged from day one. Two week build sprints with working demos. Multi-panel architecture decisions made before code is written, not retrofitted.
Discovery & Resource Map
Map Eloquent models to Filament resources, identify form components, table columns, widgets, actions, and custom plugins needed. Output is a resource map and admin user flow signed off before kick off.
Filament Install & Panel Setup
Filament installed, panel configured, authentication set up with role based access through Spatie Permission. Multi-panel structure if multi-tenancy or separate customer and admin panels needed.
Resource Build & Pest Tests
Resources built in two week sprints with Pest tests covering forms, tables, and actions. Form components and table columns reused across resources for consistency.
Widgets, Infolists & Pages
Dashboard widgets for stakeholder metrics, infolists for read only resource detail views, and custom pages for workflows that do not fit the resource model.
Plugins, Policies & Audit Logs
Custom Filament plugins packaged for reuse. Role based access through Laravel policies and Spatie Permission. Audit log integration for every privileged action where required.
Theming, Deploy & Handover
Brand theming with Tailwind and Filament colour palettes, production deployment, runbook handover including upgrade procedure for future Filament releases.
The tools we use for production Filament admins.
Production tested across SaaS dashboards, eCommerce back offices, and enterprise admin panels. Mature, supported, and well documented.
Filament core
Laravel & runtime
UI & theming
Auth & permissions
Popular plugins
Monitoring & QA
A Laravel Filament admin we shipped.
One detailed snapshot from Filament work across our 1,300 plus delivered projects. Full case studies sit in our portfolio.
HR SaaS Filament admin running 2 customer panels and 1 back office panel
"Acquaint built our entire admin stack on Filament 3 in just over three months. We have a customer admin, an HR manager panel, and our own back office, all sharing resources and policies but visually and behaviourally distinct. Three years on the same codebase and we have shipped 40 plus features without rewriting anything."
An HR SaaS platform serving UK accounting firms needed an admin layer that handled three distinct user types: their own back office team operating the platform, HR managers at customer firms running employee operations, and partner administrators with view only access to specific firms. The existing admin was a homegrown Blade plus Vue 2 build that nobody on the team wanted to extend. The previous engineering vendor had quoted six months and a six figure budget to add three more user types using their existing architecture.
Three month rebuild on Filament 3 using the Panel Builder for three distinct panels (back office, HR manager, partner read only) sharing the same Eloquent models and Filament resources. Custom Filament plugins for employee leave management workflows, payroll bulk imports, and benefits administration. Stancl tenancy provided multi-tenant scoping so HR managers only saw their own firm's data. Spatie Permission powered granular RBAC with 32 distinct permissions across operations, finance, payroll, and read only roles. Audit logs captured every privileged action with cryptographic integrity. The back office panel rolled out first, followed by HR manager and partner panels three weeks later.
Three ways to engage on a Filament build.
Most clients run Fixed Price for the initial Filament build, then switch to Dedicated Developer for ongoing resource extensions and custom plugins as the application evolves.
Dedicated Developer
- Full time, exclusive to your product
- 176 hours per month per engineer
- 5 day developer replacement clause
- Direct Slack and email access
Fixed Price Filament Build
- Discovery, resource map, build, QA, launch
- Project lead, Filament engineers, QA included
- Two week sprint demos throughout
- Post launch handover with docs
Time & Material
- Hourly billing, weekly invoices
- Scale team up or down on demand
- Effective rate from $18 per hour long term
- Full transparency on hours worked
Questions teams ask before starting a web app project.
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What is a Laravel web application?
A Laravel web application is a server rendered or hybrid web app built using the Laravel PHP framework. It can serve interactive dashboards, multi tenant SaaS products, customer portals, internal business systems, marketplace platforms, or anything that needs structured server side logic with a polished user interface. Laravel handles routing, database access, authentication, queues, real time events, and testing out of the box, so engineering teams ship faster than writing raw PHP and end up with code that is much easier to maintain over the years.
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How long does it take to build a web application with Laravel?
A focused MVP usually ships in 6 to 10 weeks with two engineers. A mid sized business application with several modules, third party integrations, and a polished admin lands in 3 to 5 months. Enterprise web platforms with multi tenancy, compliance work, and heavy custom logic typically run 6 to 12 months. The timeline depends on feature scope, decision speed, and how complete the specification is on day one. We share a week by week estimate after the discovery call.
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What types of web apps can be built with Laravel?
Almost any server backed web product. The common types we ship are multi tenant SaaS platforms, internal business systems, customer portals, marketplace and listing platforms, content management systems, fintech and payment backends, learning platforms, healthcare and telehealth tools, real time dashboards, and APIs that power mobile apps. Laravel scales from a single founder MVP all the way to enterprise grade systems running across multiple servers.
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Is Laravel suitable for large web applications?
Yes. Laravel is used in production by FedEx, Disney Hotstar, BBC, Razorpay, and Pfizer, all of which run very large web applications. For scale, we use queue workers with Horizon, Redis caching, read replicas, horizontal scaling on Forge or Vapor, and asynchronous job processing. We have shipped Laravel platforms serving 40,000 plus concurrent users and 80,000 plus loan applications per month on a single architecture.
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Does Laravel work for real time web applications?
Absolutely. Laravel ships with native real time support through Reverb (the official WebSocket server), broadcasting events through Pusher or Ably, and Livewire 3 for reactive UI without a separate SPA. Common real time features we build include live notifications, collaborative dashboards, chat, live order tracking, and presence indicators. For deeper real time work we pair Laravel with Livewire and Alpine.js. More on our Livewire development page.
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How much does Laravel web application development cost?
A focused Laravel web app MVP starts around $12,000 to $20,000. Most mid sized business apps land between $30,000 and $90,000. Enterprise platforms with multi tenancy, compliance, and integrations typically run $80,000 to $250,000. Dedicated Laravel developers at Acquaint Softtech start at $22 per hour or $3,200 per month full time. A full breakdown sits on our Laravel development cost page.
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How do you scale a Laravel web application?
Scaling Laravel is well understood. We profile bottlenecks with Telescope and Pulse, move heavy work to queues processed by Horizon, cache aggressively with Redis, introduce read replicas for the database, and horizontally scale the application layer through Forge or Vapor. For very large workloads we add CDN caching, edge functions, and asynchronous event driven flows. We have taken Laravel applications from a 12 second cold start to sub second response times in three sprints.
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Web application vs website in Laravel, what is the difference?
A website is mostly informational with limited interactivity. A web application has logged in users, data that persists, business logic, and workflows. Both can be built with Laravel, but a web application uses Laravel's full strength (authentication, authorisation, database modelling, queues, events, real time, testing) while a website often runs on a much lighter setup. If you log in, perform actions, and the system remembers state, you are looking at a web application.
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Do you build greenfield web apps or also rebuild existing ones?
Both. Roughly 60 percent of our Laravel work is greenfield, where we take a fresh idea or specification and ship the first production version. The other 40 percent is replatform work, where we modernise legacy PHP or migrate from CodeIgniter, WordPress, or older Laravel versions. For replatform projects we maintain feature parity, run shadow testing, and cut over with zero data loss. More on our migration services page.
What teams usually pair with Filament.
Filament is one part of the Laravel admin ecosystem. Most clients combine the core Filament build with one or more of these.
Livewire Development
Reactive Laravel apps in PHP and Blade. Filament is built on Livewire.
Nova Development
Official Laravel admin with Vue.js frontend and per project commercial licence.
Inertia Development
React or Vue frontends with Laravel backend through Inertia for full SPA experiences.
SaaS Development
Multi tenant SaaS with Filament admin running multiple panels per tenant model.
Enterprise Development
Compliance grade Laravel with Filament admin and audit log integration.
Custom Development
Bespoke Filament plugins and custom form components built for your brand.
Laravel Development Cost
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