Laravel AI SDK or Prism?

Both are actively released. We checked Packagist on 30 October 2026; constraints change, so run composer why-not against your own project.

Sources: laravel/ai, prism-php/prism, the AI SDK documentation and the Prism documentation. Prism’s own matrix shows which features each provider supports and notes that support can depend on the model. The SDK’s documentation has a similar table by capability.

• Support line. It is maintained alongside the framework and documented in the main Laravel docs. For a team that will own this code for years, that counts for a lot.
• It joins up with the rest of Laravel 13. The search docs build on it: whereVectorSimilarTo requires the SDK, and strings can be embedded with Str::of()->toEmbeddings().
• Application-shaped features. Approval for tools, conversation storage, queued agents and failover between providers are all built in. On an existing business application, these are the things you would otherwise write yourself.

• It already works. If Prism is in production and doing its job, “a first-party package exists” isn’t a reason to rewrite. Migrate when you need something it can’t do.
• PHP 8.2. Prism’s floor is one PHP version lower. That is only a temporary advantage: check your Laravel and PHP support dates, because the better fix is usually to move PHP.
• A lighter call. If you want one text generation behind a fluent builder rather than an agent class, you may prefer Prism’s style. The SDK also has anonymous agents through agent(), so try both before deciding on this basis.

1. Run composer why-not for both packages against your application.
2. Check that the providers and capabilities you need are listed for your choice, on the current docs.
3. Build the same small task both ways against a handful of your real examples, and read the two diffs.
4. Choose the one your team would rather maintain, and uninstall the other.

The package is the smaller decision. The harder questions are in our readiness checklist: what data may leave, what it costs, and how you will judge the output. Most of our work is delivered under NDA, so many projects cannot be named. So this comparison comes from the public packages and documents, which you can check for yourself.