Filament is an admin panel builder for Laravel; Pubner is a full CMS that includes the admin panel, the client-facing site, and an AI copilot — in one Laravel stack. If you only need an internal admin, Filament is excellent and free. If you're shipping websites to clients, Filament is where your work starts — Pubner is where it's already done.
What is Filament?
Filament is a free, open-source admin panel framework for Laravel. It's the UX standard for Laravel admin panels: forms, tables, and CRUD interfaces in minutes, with a large plugin ecosystem. Filament AI generates Blade components and admin forms. What Filament is not: a CMS. There's no client-facing site, no templates, no content delivery — you build all of that yourself.
What is Pubner?
Pubner is an AI-driven agency CMS environment on Laravel. One stack gives you the API, the admin panel, and the client site (Twig templates) — plus a Hub for managing dozens of isolated client sites, custom domains so each client sees their own URL instead of a pubner.com subdomain, and RBAC so team access stays scoped. The AI copilot works on top of your actual data: it drafts content, manages robots.txt and SEO files, and builds pages in a conversation with live preview. $20/month.
Filament vs Pubner: side by side
| Filament | Pubner | |
|---|---|---|
| Admin panel | ✅ best-in-class | ✅ ready out of the box |
| Client-facing site | ❌ build it yourself | ✅ Twig themes + routing |
| API | ❌ build it yourself | ✅ included |
| Multi-site management | ❌ one app = one project | ✅ Hub, isolated tenants |
| RBAC | 🟡 partial (plugin) | ✅ built in |
| AI | 🟡 generates admin forms | ✅ copilot over your data + conversational page builder |
| Code ownership | ✅ it's your app | ✅ Twig themes + portable JSON, no lock-in |
| Price | Free | $20/month |
When Filament is the better choice
Filament wins when you're building a custom internal tool or a one-off application admin. It's free, mature, and its ecosystem is unmatched in the Laravel world. If there's no client-facing website in the project, you don't need Pubner.
When you need more than an admin panel
Filament AI generates an admin form. Pubner AI generates the page your client will actually see. If your work is delivering websites — especially several client sites at once — the difference is the whole frontend: with Filament you still write the site, the routing, and the content delivery yourself. Pubner ships them in the same stack, and Full Export means the code stays yours if you ever leave.