Salesforce vs Laravel-crm
Choose Laravel-crm (Krayin CRM) when the priority is a focused, self-hostable CRM for contacts, leads, opportunities, and sales workflows—and the organization can operate a PHP/Laravel stack. Keep Salesforce when one integrated platform must also cover mature service, marketing, commerce, unified customer data, analytics, low-code development, and AI-agent workflows. The central tradeoff is infrastructure and source-
Decision guide
The practical reasons to choose either option, based on documented capabilities.
Choose Laravel-crm if
- Teams needing self-hosted contact, lead, and opportunity management
- Organizations with PHP/Laravel skills and infrastructure ownership requirements
- Sales teams using custom fields, activities, roles, products, and basic pipeline workflows
Stay with Salesforce if
- Service operations require documented contact-center, omnichannel, self-service, or field-service coverage
- Marketing requires documented mobile engagement, advertising, loyalty, or cross-channel personalization
- The organization depends on commerce, order management, payments, or unified cross-application customer profiles platform, service, and marketing breadth: Krayin provides greater deployment control but has narrower subst
Deployment and operations
Laravel-crm is self-hostable and Docker installation is documented; no Kubernetes support is established. Manual installation requires Apache 2 or NGINX, at least 3 GB RAM, PHP 8.3+, Composer 2.5+, and MySQL 8.0.32+ for MySQL users. The project also offers managed cloud hosting. Repository facts and the README identify the license as MIT, although the cloud-hosting page inconsistently says AGPL; confirm the applicable version and license before deployment. Self-hosters manage the server and must
Feature fit
What Laravel-crm covers
- Contact and organization records
- Lead and opportunity tracking
- Sales pipeline workflows
- Custom fields
- Sales activities
- Access roles
- Products and services
- Reporting and sales forecasting claims
- Marketing automation claims
- AI workflow claims
What’s different or missing
- No documented Salesforce importer
- No documented service or marketing parity
- No documented unified customer-data layer
- No documented commerce and payments suite
- No documented low-code application platform
- No documented Kubernetes deployment
Project snapshot
- GitHub stars
- 23,690
- Contributors
- 61
- Language
- PHP
- Last commit
- Aug 17, 2026
- Latest release
- Aug 4, 2026
Categories: Workflow Automation, Customer Relationship Management, Business Intelligence, Data Integration, Customer Data Platforms, Marketing Automation, Customer Support
Sources and editorial review15 linked sources
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Krayin Multitenant SaaS ... multiple businesses (tenants) to use a single application instance while keeping their data isolated and secure.
readme · github.comKrayin CRM is Free & Open Source CRM Built with Laravel for Customer, Lead, and Sales Management.
repository description · github.comFree & Opensource Laravel CRM solution for SMEs and Enterprises for complete customer lifecycle management.
readme · github.comDescriptive and Simple Admin Panel. Admin Dashboard. Custom Attributes. Built on Modular Approach.
readme · github.comKrayin CRM is a hand tailored CRM framework built on ... Laravel ... and Vue.js.
readme · github.comSERVER: Apache 2 or NGINX ... PHP: 8.3 or higher ... MySQL users: 8.0.32 or higher.
readme · github.comphp artisan route:clear; php artisan serve
readme · github.comKrayin CRM Cloud Hosting is a fully managed hosting solution ... on your own domain.
readme · github.comKrayin CRM is Free & Open Source CRM Built with Laravel for Customer, Lead, and Sales Management.
verdict · github.comFeatures that assist with lead tracking, deal management, and sales forecasting.
shared feature · krayincrm.com- **SERVER**: Apache 2 or NGINX. - **RAM**: 3 GB or higher. - **PHP**: 8.3 or higher - **Composer**: 2.5 or higher - **For MySQL users**: 8.0.32 or higher.
deployment · github.comKrayin CRM is a fully open-source CRM framework which will always be free under the [MIT License](https://github.com/krayin/laravel-crm/blob/2.1/LICENSE).
deployment · github.comSelf-hosted is free but you manage the server. Cloud Hosting is fully managed by our team on high-performance infrastructure.
deployment · krayincrm.comYes, the core CRM is open source and free to use under the AGPL license.
deployment · krayincrm.comAdd unlimited custom fields to adapt the CRM to your unique business requirements and company logic.
shared feature · krayincrm.com
