Starting July 30, 2025, JetBrains is making Laravel Idea free for PhpStorm users. If you already have the Laravel Idea plugin installed, you get full access to all plugin features at no extra cost.
Laravel Idea is the smartest Laravel development environment based on PhpStorm. Developed by Adel Faizrakhmanov, the plugin has 1.5M+ downloads from JetBrains Marketplace and is highly appreciated by Laravel developers.
With Laravel Idea integrated it extends PhpStorm’s built-in Laravel support with a variety of developer productivity features, including:
- Powerful code generation.
- Advanced routing, validation, request fields, gates and policies, configs, translations, views, and a lot of other completion features.
- Excellent understanding of the Eloquent ORM.
- Full Blade component support.
- Support for Livewire, Inertia.js, Dusk, Laravel modules, and other third-party packages.
Find out more details about the announcement on the JetBrains announcement.
