Filament admin panels, free, fast, and properly built.

Filament is a free MIT licensed admin panel framework for Laravel, built on Livewire, 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.

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. Pick Nova when you want first party Laravel support, a clean Vue.js admin interface, and a per project licence that includes ongoing updates. Filament is our default recommendation for new projects unless the team specifically prefers Vue or needs commercial Nova packages. More on our Nova development page.

Yes. Filament is open source, MIT licensed, and free for unlimited projects, including commercial use. There are no per project fees, no usage limits, and no commercial licence required. You can build as many admin panels for as many clients as you want without paying anything to the Filament team. The Filament team funds development through GitHub sponsorships, optional paid plugins, and Filament for Laravel Cloud.

Yes. Filament is in production at tens of thousands of Laravel applications today including SaaS platforms, eCommerce stores, internal tools, and enterprise back offices. Filament 3 (released 2023) is the current stable major version with full Laravel 11 and 12 compatibility. The framework is actively maintained by Dan Harrin and the Filament team, ships with regular releases, and has a healthy commercial ecosystem of paid Filament plugins for specialised use cases.

Everything that matters. Custom resources for any Eloquent model. Custom form components (Filament's form builder ships with 40 plus field types and supports building your own). Custom table columns, filters, and actions. Custom widgets for dashboards (chart widgets, stat widgets, table widgets, custom Blade widgets). Custom pages for workflows that do not fit the resource model. Custom Filament plugins (we have built plugins for signature capture, geolocation, Stripe Connect, and audit log viewers). Multi-tenancy through Filament's native panel system. Theming with Tailwind.

Filament itself is free. Building a Filament admin around your application is the development cost. A focused Filament admin with 10 to 20 resources, basic forms, and a clean dashboard typically costs $5,000 to $16,000 and ships in 4 to 8 weeks. A mid sized Filament admin with custom widgets, complex forms, infolists, and custom plugins lands between $18,000 and $45,000 over 2 to 4 months. Dedicated Laravel Filament 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.

Yes. Filament v3 has first class multi-tenancy through its Panel Builder. Each panel can be scoped to a tenant, and Filament integrates cleanly with Stancl tenancy and similar multi-tenant packages. We have shipped Filament SaaS admin panels serving thousands of tenants on a single architecture with proper isolation per tenant. The Panel Builder also lets you separate your customer facing panel from your internal back office panel using the same Filament codebase. More on our SaaS development page.

Yes. We have built private Filament plugins for clients covering signature capture fields, geolocation pickers with map integration, advanced JSON editors, Stripe Connect onboarding tools, multi-tenant scoping middleware, audit log viewers with cryptographic verification, CSV import wizards with column mapping, Bagisto catalog bridges, and webhook debugging tools. We follow Filament's plugin architecture so customisations are maintainable, version upgradeable, and portable across your Filament panels.

Yes. Filament v2 to v3 upgrades are scoped as separate engagements because they require dependency audits, regression testing on custom fields and plugins, and careful planning when third party plugins are involved. Most Filament v2 to v3 upgrades take 2 to 6 weeks depending on customisation depth. More on our Laravel upgrade service page.

Yes, completely. Source code ownership and IP transfer terms are agreed in writing before kick off, the NDA is signed before any project discussions, and the repository is yours from commit one. Custom Filament plugins, resources, fields, and widgets built for your project are yours, not white labelled or licensed back. Filament itself is MIT licensed and free, so there are no platform fees or licence multiplication concerns.