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Laravel vs Symfony vs CodeIgniter

A side-by-side look at how actively Laravel, Symfony and CodeIgniter are developed on GitHub — popularity, contributor base, commit activity and how quickly issues and pull requests move.

What the numbers say

Head-to-head

Snapshot taken 30 September 2026.

MetricLaravel
Active
Symfony
Active
CodeIgniter
Active
Stars35k31k6.0k
Forks12k9.9k2.0k
Contributors5.0k4.9k390
Commits, last 52 weeks2.4k7.7k586
Open issues5113822
Open pull requests444114
Closed / merged PRs37k39k7.8k
Watchers9361.0k277
Last push29 Sep 202630 Sep 202627 Sep 2026
Latest releasev13.34.0 (Sep 2026)v8.1.8 (Sep 2026)v4.7.4 (Jul 2026)
Main languagePHPPHPPHP
LicenceMITMITMIT
CreatedJan 2013Jan 2010Aug 2015

Bold marks the highest value in a row. “Active / Slowing / Dormant” is a simple heuristic from how recently code was pushed and open issues per star — a starting point, not a verdict. Stars measure popularity, not quality.

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