Filament builds your backend. Lara Dashboard builds your product. Both are excellent Laravel tools — but they solve fundamentally different problems. If you need an admin panel, Filament is great. If you need a complete product with CMS, public frontend, AI, and marketplace — that's us.
With Filament, you build an admin panel and then separately build everything else — the public site, the blog, the email system, the SEO, the page builder. With Lara Dashboard, you install one project and ship a complete product. The admin panel is just one layer of a full-stack CMS platform.
Lara Dashboard
Admin panel + public website + blog + page builder + SEO tools + email campaigns + media library + menu management + user roles + translation system + REST API. All working together, out of the box.
FilamentPHP
An admin panel with CRUD, forms, tables, and widgets. Everything else — public pages, blog, SEO, email — you build yourself or find separate packages for.
Lara Dashboard
CLI-based CRUD generator (module:make-crud) that scaffolds controller, service, model, form request, views, datatable, policy, and permissions. Convention-driven, produces standard Laravel code.
FilamentPHP
Declarative PHP API that auto-generates CRUD from Eloquent models. Excellent form and table builders with a rich widget ecosystem. This is Filament's strongest area.
Lara Dashboard
WordPress-style action & filter hooks for deep customization. Full module system with isolated namespaces, migrations, and views. Built-in marketplace for sharing and selling modules.
FilamentPHP
Plugin system with a growing community registry. Extensions are Composer packages. Well-designed extension points, but no action/filter hook pattern.
Lara Dashboard
Built-in AI with OpenAI, Claude, Gemini and Ollama, plus an MCP server in core: Claude.ai, Claude Desktop, Cursor and Claude Code can run your site within each user's permissions. AI filter hooks let any module add intelligent features.
FilamentPHP
No built-in AI features in core. Community plugins add AI tools and an MCP server built on laravel/mcp, but there is no unified AI architecture or hook system.
Lara Dashboard
LaraBuilder — React-based drag-and-drop page builder with 35+ core blocks, server-side rendering for emails, and a module-extensible block registry.
FilamentPHP
Form builder for admin interfaces. No visual page builder for public-facing content.
Lara Dashboard
Growing community with active development, module marketplace, and comprehensive documentation. A newer project with strong momentum and a clear roadmap.
FilamentPHP
Large, established community with extensive plugins and excellent documentation. One of the most popular Laravel packages. This is Filament's strongest advantage.
Lara Dashboard
Clients inevitably ask for a public site, a blog, landing pages, SEO, email newsletters. With Lara Dashboard, it's already there. No migration, no new framework, no rebuild.
FilamentPHP
When requirements expand beyond admin, you add a frontend framework, a CMS package, a blog system, SEO tools — each as a separate integration effort.
Choose FilamentPHP if you need a best-in-class admin panel and you'll build or integrate everything else yourself. Filament's form builder and declarative API are genuinely excellent — we respect what they've built.
Choose Lara Dashboard if you want to ship a complete product — not just a backend. CMS, page builder, AI, marketplace, public frontend, email campaigns, and admin panel in one codebase. Stop assembling pieces. Start shipping products.
Pricing and AI/MCP details checked November 2026; other details last verified March 2026. We strive for accuracy — if something has changed, let us know. Verify for yourself: FilamentPHP official site.
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