Best FilamentPHP SaaS Boilerplates 2026

TL;DR

FilamentPHP (22K+ GitHub stars) has become the default admin panel framework for Laravel SaaS products — its CRUD generator, form builder, and table component dramatically reduce development time versus hand-rolling admin interfaces. In 2026, several SaaS boilerplates have emerged that build on top of Filament to give you a complete multi-tenant SaaS foundation out of the box. This guide covers the best Filament-based starters and explains how Filament compares to building your admin from scratch.

Key Takeaways

• FilamentPHP v3 (September 2023) introduced panels with full multi-tenancy support — the first major PHP admin framework to treat multi-tenancy as a first-class feature
• Filament stars: 22K+ GitHub stars, 500K+ monthly installs, used by thousands of Laravel SaaS products
• Key advantage: Every Eloquent model can become a fully functional CRUD resource in < 30 minutes using the admin panel generator
• Best paid starter: FilamentSaaS ($129 one-time) — includes multi-tenancy, billing, roles, and team management
• Best free option: Build on top of filament/filament + laravel/cashier + stancl/tenancy for maximum control
• Alternative to consider: Laravel Spark ($119) remains viable if you don't need Filament's visual admin builder

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What Is FilamentPHP?

FilamentPHP is an open-source Laravel admin panel framework built on Livewire and Alpine.js. Unlike traditional admin generators that create static CRUD interfaces, Filament provides a component-based system with:

• Resources — Eloquent model admin interfaces with list, create, edit, view, delete
• Forms — 40+ field types (text, select, repeater, file upload, etc.) with validation
• Tables — sortable, filterable, searchable table components with bulk actions
• Pages — custom admin pages (dashboards, settings, reports)
• Plugins — 200+ community plugins (calendar, kanban, map widget, import/export)

For SaaS products specifically, Filament's multi-tenancy support (v3+) means your admin panel is automatically scoped to each tenant's data — a critical feature for B2B SaaS.

// Resource auto-generates: list, create, edit, delete, view pages
class CompanyResource extends Resource
{
    protected static ?string $model = Company::class;
    protected static ?string $tenantOwnershipRelationshipName = 'company';

    public static function form(Form $form): Form
    {
        return $form->schema([
            Forms\Components\TextInput::make('name')->required(),
            Forms\Components\Select::make('plan')
                ->options(Plan::all()->pluck('name', 'id')),
        ]);
    }
}

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FilamentPHP SaaS Starters Compared

FilamentSaaS — Best Overall

GitHub: private (paid product) | Price: ~$129 one-time | Stack: Laravel 11, Filament v3, Livewire, Stripe

FilamentSaaS is a purpose-built SaaS boilerplate that wraps Filament with everything needed for a production multi-tenant application:

Included features:

• Multi-tenancy via stancl/tenancy (separate databases per tenant or shared database with tenant_id scoping)
• Stripe billing with subscription management UI
• Team management (invite members, assign roles)
• Role-based access control using Spatie Laravel Permission
• Filament admin panel (pre-built: users, teams, subscriptions, activity logs)
• Authentication (register, login, email verification, 2FA)
• Onboarding flow
• Feature flags per plan tier
• API with Laravel Sanctum
• Tests (Pest PHP)

What sets it apart: Most Filament SaaS starters assume you'll build the admin yourself — FilamentSaaS pre-builds the internal admin (for you, the app owner) AND the tenant-facing Filament panel for your customers, scoped to their data.

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Filament Shield + Custom Build

Cost: Free | Stack: filament/filament + bezhansalleh/filament-shield + laravel/cashier

For teams comfortable with Laravel who want maximum control:

composer create-project laravel/laravel my-saas
composer require filament/filament
composer require bezhansalleh/filament-shield
composer require laravel/cashier
composer require stancl/tenancy

The Filament Shield plugin adds RBAC (roles/permissions management) directly into Filament's admin panel. Combined with Laravel Cashier for Stripe billing and stancl/tenancy for multi-tenancy, you have a complete foundation — but you assemble it yourself.

Time to assemble: ~1–2 weeks of setup vs. ~1 day with a starter kit.

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Laravel Spark + Filament

Price: Laravel Spark $119 (one-time) | Stack: Laravel 11, Filament (added separately)

Laravel Spark is Taylor Otwell's official SaaS billing/teams package. It handles subscriptions, team management, and billing but has no admin panel. Many developers combine Spark with Filament:

composer require laravel/spark-stripe
php artisan spark:install

# Then add Filament separately
composer require filament/filament
php artisan filament:install --panels

This combination gives you Spark's battle-tested billing UI + Filament's admin builder. The downside: they're not pre-integrated, so there's some configuration work to connect them.

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FilamentPHP Boilerplate (GitHub Community)

Several open-source Filament starter repos exist with varying levels of completeness:

Notable free options:

• tightenco/filament-starter — minimal Filament install with basic auth
• filamentphp/demo — official demo app showing Filament capabilities (not production-ready)
• RocketDevs/filament-saas-starter — community starter with Stripe and teams (active in 2026)

Reality check on free starters: Most community boilerplates on GitHub are incomplete or unmaintained. The production gap between a GitHub repo and a shippable SaaS is significant. For serious projects, the paid options are worth the $129–199 to avoid weeks of assembly.

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FilamentPHP vs Alternatives for Admin Panel

Filament vs Laravel Nova

Laravel Nova (~$99/year) is the official Laravel admin panel by Taylor Otwell. It's more polished than Filament in some areas, but:

• No multi-tenancy support built-in
• Annual subscription pricing
• Closed source (can't extend the same way as Filament)
• Smaller plugin ecosystem

Filament is now the community preference over Nova for new projects in 2026.

Filament vs AdminLTE/Voyager

Voyager and AdminLTE are older Laravel admin solutions. Both lack Livewire reactivity and type-safe components. Neither has Filament's component system or plugin ecosystem. If you're evaluating these, skip them and use Filament directly.

Filament vs React Admin Panel

Some teams build admin panels with React (using tools like Refine). This gives more UI flexibility but:

• Requires maintaining a separate frontend build
• Loses Livewire's server-side rendering simplicity
• More complex deployment

For Laravel-native teams, Filament's Livewire-based admin is almost always faster to build and maintain.

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Multi-Tenancy Options with Filament

Filament v3 supports two multi-tenancy models:

1. Scope by Relationship (Shared Database)

All tenants share the same database tables. Data is scoped using tenant_id foreign keys. Filament v3 handles this automatically:

class AppServiceProvider extends PanelServiceProvider
{
    public function panel(Panel $panel): Panel
    {
        return $panel
            ->tenant(Team::class, ownershipRelationship: 'team');
    }
}

Best for: Small-to-medium SaaS (< 10,000 tenants), lower infrastructure cost.

2. Separate Databases (stancl/tenancy)

Each tenant gets their own database schema or database. More isolation, more infrastructure cost:

composer require stancl/tenancy
# Configure separate tenant databases
# Filament auto-scopes queries to current tenant database

Best for: Enterprise B2B with strict data isolation requirements (HIPAA, financial services).

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Developer Experience with FilamentPHP

What You Get Fast

Building a resource in Filament is remarkably productive:

php artisan make:filament-resource Post --generate

This single command generates:

• PostResource.php — full CRUD with form, table, and pages
• ListPosts.php, CreatePost.php, EditPost.php, ViewPost.php
• Automatic search, sort, and filter on the table
• Bulk actions (delete, export)

For a simple CRUD-heavy SaaS admin, you can ship full admin interfaces in hours rather than days.

What Requires More Work

• Complex custom UI — Filament's components are powerful but have a learning curve for custom layouts
• High-performance tables — for very large datasets (millions of rows), Filament's default pagination needs optimization
• Real-time updates — Filament uses Livewire polling; for truly real-time (push-based) admin feeds, you'll need additional work

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Who Should Use FilamentPHP for SaaS

Ideal for:

• Laravel teams building internal tools or B2B SaaS with admin-heavy workflows
• Solo founders who want a complete admin + customer-facing panel in one framework
• Teams that need RBAC, audit logs, and multi-tenancy without building from scratch
• Projects where development speed matters more than frontend flexibility

Less ideal for:

• Frontend teams who prefer React/Vue for their admin
• Projects with highly custom admin UI that doesn't map to CRUD resources
• Non-Laravel backends (Filament is Laravel-only)

See also our Laravel Spark review and best Laravel SaaS starters guide.

Methodology

• FilamentPHP star count from GitHub (March 2026)
• FilamentSaaS features from official product page (March 2026)
• Laravel Spark pricing from spark.laravel.com
• Date: March 2026

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FilamentPHP Performance at Scale

Filament runs on Livewire, which means every interactive operation sends a request to the server and re-renders the relevant component. This is the right model for most admin operations — it's simpler to build and maintains server-side security naturally. The performance implication is that every user interaction that updates UI state makes a round-trip to your server.

For admin panels with small to medium datasets (hundreds to tens of thousands of rows), Filament's performance is excellent. The table component handles pagination, search, and filtering efficiently. For very large datasets (millions of records), the default pagination approach requires careful query optimization — add appropriate database indexes on sortable columns and filtered fields, use scout or meilisearch for full-text search rather than SQL LIKE queries, and consider adding Filament's lazy loading for slow-joining relationships.

Real-time updates in Filament use Livewire polling — components check for updates at configurable intervals. This is adequate for admin panels where slight latency is acceptable. For truly real-time admin requirements (live customer session monitoring, real-time chat moderation), supplement Filament with Laravel Echo and Pusher for push-based updates rather than polling.

Filament for Customer-Facing Panels

One of Filament's more powerful and underutilized capabilities is multi-tenancy for customer-facing admin panels. With Filament v3's tenant scope, you can build an admin-style interface for your customers where they manage their own data — scoped entirely to their organization.

This pattern works well for SaaS products where customers need to manage complex structured data: a project management tool where customers manage team members and permissions, a CRM where each customer manages their own contacts and pipeline, a billing platform where each customer manages their own sub-accounts.

The alternative — building a custom React dashboard for this — requires significantly more frontend development time. Filament's Livewire-based components are less flexible than a React UI but dramatically faster to build. For products where the customer admin experience is functional rather than visually distinctive, Filament's convention-over-configuration approach gets you to a working customer panel in days rather than weeks.

The customer-facing tenant panel uses the same resource definitions as your internal admin panel, scoped to the current tenant. Filament v3 handles the scoping automatically once you configure the tenant model — adding a customer-facing panel is then a matter of deciding which resources to expose and which actions to permit.

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FilamentPHP Release Cadence in 2026

FilamentPHP follows a fast release cadence — minor versions ship every few weeks with new field types, table improvements, and plugin API additions. The core team maintains strong backwards compatibility within major versions, so upgrading from v3.x to the next minor is typically a composer update. This is a meaningful contrast to Laravel Nova, which has historically had longer gaps between feature releases.

For SaaS teams, this means Filament's component library is actively expanding. New field types (such as the repeater sub-form component and builder blocks) have become standard choices for handling complex nested data — things like subscription plan feature lists or per-tenant configuration objects — without writing custom Livewire components.

If you're evaluating FilamentPHP for a new SaaS project in 2026, the community consensus on the #filament-saas Discord channel is clear: start with FilamentPHP v3, add the Shield RBAC plugin and stancl/tenancy from day one (retrofitting multi-tenancy later is painful), and wire in Laravel Cashier before your first customer. The boilerplates listed above handle this assembly; if you prefer to do it manually, budget 1–2 weeks of setup before you write your first business logic.

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