Choose Laravel When
You need a headless API serving mobile, web and desktop clients. Your app has complex business logic — pricing engines, permissions, workflows. You need background jobs, queues or event-driven architecture.
Choose Next.js When
You are building a content-heavy website where SEO is critical. The frontend and backend are tightly coupled — one team, one codebase. Your data access is simple and your team is JavaScript-only.
Our Recommendation
For 70% of SaaS products: Laravel API + Next.js frontend. Best of both worlds — Laravel handles the business logic and Next.js handles the SEO and UI.
