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Laravel Sail vs Vessel

Both stand on container development environments. Which one you can start free with, which one lets you read the code, and what each costs once you pay.

Vessel packages common Laravel development services into project files and provides commands for everyday PHP and frontend work. Its macOS and Linux support, persistent data, and customization options are useful, but Windows users and projects needing default queues have limitations.

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The facts

	Laravel Sail	Vessel
Free plan	Not published	Yes
Open source	Not published	Not published
Runs on	Linux, Mac, Windows	Linux, Mac, Self-hosted
Lowest paid plan	Not published	Not published
Plans published	None	None
Maker	Not published	Not published
Website	laravel.com	vessel.shippingdocker.com
On container development environments	#40 of 40	#36 of 40

Laravel Sail: what it does well

Vessel: what it does well

Free Laravel Docker environment
No global installation beyond Docker
Includes PHP, MySQL, Redis, and Node.js
Persistent database and Redis data
Supports PostgreSQL and Beanstalkd customization

What to know first

Windows is not currently supported
Docker must be installed separately
Defaults to ports 80 and 3306
Queue technology is not included by default

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