Laravel is an open-source PHP framework that has an MVC (Model-View-Controller) design pattern in its core. It’s an excellent framework that requires minimal configuration and has an expressive syntax. To create web apps, Laravel reuses the existing components that it can take from different frameworks.
Symfony is another PHP framework that relies on MVC pattern and just like Laravel can be used on various computing platforms. It has several things in common with Laravel. Both frameworks use PHP as their programming language and are cross-platform, multi-user, and multi-language content. The two provide the scaffolding of the application, pattern for interfaces, and support text search.
The main difference between the two frameworks is that Symfony is more complex and harder to learn, though it better works for bigger projects.