Skip to content
BuildPusher
All comparisons

BuildPusher is the all-in-one alternative to Laravel Forge

Forge provisions and manages servers in your cloud accounts for PHP and Laravel applications, and deploys them from Git. BuildPusher puts deploys, servers, monitoring and analytics in one account.

Start freeHow to move

No card to start. Every service has a free tier.

Laravel Forge is a focused server manager for PHP. BuildPusher is servers, deploys, monitoring, security and analytics together.

BuildPusher and Laravel Forge at a glance
BuildPusherLaravel Forge
FocusDeploy, run, monitor, secure and analyseProvision servers and deploy PHP apps
Where your apps runServers in your own cloud accountServers in your own cloud account
How you payPer service, with a free tier on eachA subscription for the account
Errors and tracesBuilt in (Monitoring)A separate product (Laravel Nightwatch)
Visitor analyticsBuilt in (Analytics)Bring your own

Who should choose which?

Choose BuildPusher if…

You want deploys, the servers they run on, monitoring and analytics to work together, on one bill.

  • Monitoring, error tracking, status pages and privacy-friendly Analytics are part of the same account, so a deploy shows up beside the errors and traffic it affected.
  • Safe release strategies (blue-green, canary, rolling), approvals, deploy windows, previews for every pull request and one-click rollback are built in.
  • Meilisearch, Typesense and Redis in a click, Cloudflare CDN and firewall rules per domain, and storage buckets for your apps.

Choose Laravel Forge if…

You only need server management and deploys, and already have monitoring and analytics you like.

  • Built by the Laravel team, so new Laravel features tend to arrive there first.
  • A narrower product, with fewer settings to learn if servers and deploys are all you need.
Start free

3 reasons teams choose BuildPusher over Laravel Forge

  1. 1

    A deploy and its errors in one place

    When a release goes wrong, Monitoring shows the deploy that was live beside the errors and slow requests, and you can roll back from the same screen.

  2. 2

    Safer releases

    Blue-green, canary and rolling strategies, approvals, deploy windows, a preview for every pull request and automatic rollback when health checks fail.

  3. 3

    Fewer tools to pay for

    Uptime checks, error tracking, status pages, security scanning and privacy-friendly analytics come with the same account and bill, each with a free tier.

Try BuildPusher: deploy without the busywork

Deployment #1841

Storefront · production

Health verified

A release record with revision, rollout and verification in one place.

  1. Approve

    Recorded

  2. Release

    Recorded

  3. Verify

    Recorded

Revision
a71c8ef
Strategy
Blue-green
Recovery
Available

Illustrative interface with sample data.

Sample data, for illustration.

What’s included in each

FeatureBuildPusherLaravel Forge
Servers in your own cloud accountYesYes
Domains and automatic TLSYesYes
Cron jobs, daemons and firewall rulesYesYes
Recipes for new serversYesYes
Database backupsYesYes
FeatureBuildPusherLaravel Forge
Deploys from GitHub, GitLab and BitbucketYesYes
Zero-downtime deploysYesYes
Blue-green and canary releasesYes—No
Approvals and deploy windowsYes—No
FeatureBuildPusherLaravel Forge
Error tracking and tracesYesLaravel Nightwatch
Uptime checks, incidents and status pagesYes—No
Privacy-friendly analyticsYes—No
Package, secret and server security scanningYes—No

What’s alike

  • Servers are created in your own cloud account (DigitalOcean, Hetzner Cloud, Vultr, Linode, AWS Lightsail or EC2, Google Compute Engine, Microsoft Azure, OVHcloud, Scaleway or UpCloud with us), so you keep control of them and their bills.
  • Websites get domains, certificates and Git deploys from GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket.
  • Cron jobs, background processes (queues, Horizon, Reverb), firewall rules and web server settings.

Also in BuildPusher

  • Security scanning built in: vulnerable packages, leaked secrets, server hardening scores, automatic attack blocking and compliance evidence.
  • One bill across every service, each with a free tier.
  • Moving is guided: connect a Forge API token and each site is recreated with its environment file, cron jobs and daemons.

Switching is easier than you think

Three steps, with nothing to rebuild by hand.

  1. Step 1

    Paste a Forge API token under Move from Forge or Ploi

  2. Step 2

    Move each site to one of your servers here: its environment file, cron jobs and daemons come with it

  3. Step 3

    Connect the repository, deploy, copy the database and point DNS at the new server

Read the step-by-step guide

Run deploy without the overhead.

Every service has a free tier. Paid tiers: Deploy from $9 a month, Infrastructure is included. The free tiers of every other service come with it, on one bill.

Start freeSee pricing

What else you should know

Laravel Forge is a trademark of its owner. This page is based on their public information as of September 2026; products change, so check their site for the latest.

Paste a Forge API token under Move from Forge or Ploi. Move each site to one of your servers here: its environment file, cron jobs and daemons come with it. Connect the repository, deploy, copy the database and point DNS at the new server. Nothing changes at Laravel Forge until you point DNS at the new server, so the old site keeps serving until then.

Servers are created in your own cloud account (DigitalOcean, Hetzner Cloud, Vultr, Linode, AWS Lightsail or EC2, Google Compute Engine, Microsoft Azure, OVHcloud, Scaleway or UpCloud with us), so you keep control of them and their bills. Websites get domains, certificates and Git deploys from GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket. Cron jobs, background processes (queues, Horizon, Reverb), firewall rules and web server settings.

You only need server management and deploys, and already have monitoring and analytics you like. Built by the Laravel team, so new Laravel features tend to arrive there first. A narrower product, with fewer settings to learn if servers and deploys are all you need.

Every service has a free tier. Paid tiers: Deploy from $9 a month, Infrastructure is included. Each is a line on the same bill, and servers are billed by your cloud provider.

Other comparisons