--- title: Phalcon Reviews meta\_title: 'Phalcon Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 26 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Phalcon works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.4 review\_count: 26 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Web Frameworks url: https://www.g2.com/categories/web-frameworks --- # Phalcon Reviews & Product Details A full-stack PHP framework delivered as a C-extension * * * Seller [Fog City Software](https://www.g2.com/sellers/fog-city-software) Discussions [Phalcon Community](https://www.g2.com/products/phalcon/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/phalcon/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Laravel](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Laravel") Laravel 4.7/5(159) ](https://www.g2.com/products/laravel/reviews) [ ![CodeIgniter](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "CodeIgniter") CodeIgniter 4.4/5(58) ](https://www.g2.com/products/codeigniter/reviews) [ ![Symfony](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Symfony") Symfony 4.3/5(30) ](https://www.g2.com/products/symfony/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/phalcon/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 26 real user reviews. Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Himanshu V.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Himanshu V.") HV Himanshu V. Senior Software Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/10/2021 "Best ever framework for microservices" 5/5 What do you like best about Phalcon? Router is the best part which I have extensively used for rest apis Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Phalcon? The view creation is not that much strong as in laravel blading engine Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Phalcon solving and how is that benefiting you? Microservices architecture Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Ketan A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ketan A.") KA Ketan A. Sr. PHP Developer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 10/25/2020 "Phalcon is best framework to use in your project." 4.5/5 What do you like best about Phalcon? Personally I like this framework the best. Much like in life, a big challenge in programming is keeping a good balance between order and freedom. This framework is very well balanced in this respect. Basically if you're a cool, easy-going and fun individual, this framework is made in your style. It is light, fast, minimal, flexible, intuitive, good for projects of all sizes, and is stable yet growing quickly. Is it new and missing some trivial things? Yes. Can those things be fixed with a little effort? Yes. Another awesome thing about Phalcon is Zephir. With it you can now write PHP extensions pretty much in PHP (used to be in C). Phalcon itself is written in Zephir. So, this isn't just another competing framework but an effort at something bigger and I think that is important to consider too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Phalcon? I personally can not find any at the moment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Phalcon: Yes definitely, it's a very good framework to use in every kind of project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Phalcon solving and how is that benefiting you? It is light, fast, minimal, flexible, intuitive, good for projects of all sizes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Stanimir G.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Stanimir G.") SG Stanimir G. Web Developer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 10/22/2020 "A great REST API tool for me" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Phalcon? Speed is what Phalcon brings to the table. Being compiled as a PHP module certainly makes it the fastest framework around. It is capable to deal with a vast amount of queries and utilizes not much resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Phalcon? The fact that the framework is a PHP module is both a blessing and a curse. For an example you can't use it on any shared hosting provider (they might not have it installed). I used it a few years ago and remember quite a lot of bugs, which aren't always solvable if you don't want to dig into Zephir, because that's what it's written in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Phalcon: Phalcon is a great tool to get the job done. However, it is not what's "modern" nowadays - other frameworks use bundles, automated tools, etc. But if you are looking to get the best speed and need something simple and fast - Phalcon is a great choice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Phalcon solving and how is that benefiting you? Phalcon was chosen when we were rewriting a website. The main problem was that it was slow. We picked Phalcon because of its speed and combined it with Aerospike about when PHP 7 came out. Needless to say the speed and the loads the server could take could not be compared to anything else. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Rajalakshmi L.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Rajalakshmi L.") RL Rajalakshmi L. Web Application Developer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 10/25/2020 "Review on Phalcon Framework as a Web Developer" 4/5 What do you like best about Phalcon? Phalcon is really very useful and easy to understand. The easiest framework to grasp for new developers also. Installation is also simple and easy by using commands. It has many built-in functions to save the programmer a lot of time, for example, routing, query builder, views etc. Can also make our own Structure based on our convenience and very easy to use with MVC structure and Rest API. Performance is also good by using Phalcon. Thanks to Phalcon Community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Phalcon? Phalcon framework has a less number of videos comparing others I think so. Other than that nothing bad comes in my mind. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Phalcon solving and how is that benefiting you? Started to Integrate with other applications. Will be easy with Phalcon I think. Not yet completed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Alexander K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Alexander K.") AK Alexander K. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/19/2020 "My experience with Phalcon" 4/5 What do you like best about Phalcon? What I really liked is the performance and the speed. It uses the MVC design patters which is a plus for me. The ORM is very intuitive. The documentation is very detailed and well structured. I have experience with Zend-like framework and I found a lot of similarities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Phalcon? You should have knowledge in C if you want to understand how some things work. As it is distributed as extension there are an additional installations on a deployment server except from having PHP installed. The migrations were not well documented. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Phalcon: They should definitely give it a chance: - easy to learn - high performance - very good documentation What else do you need to start using it? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Phalcon solving and how is that benefiting you? I used Phalcon for the creation of an ERP system for the legal authorities. I wanted to use an open source framework. I realized that the learning curve of Phalcon is very gradual and I was able to write well structured code in less than a week. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Rajendra W.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Rajendra W.") RW Rajendra W. Sr WordPress Developer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 9/16/2020 "Speed" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Phalcon? I was amazed with the speed of the framework. Built as a C extension it is really shaping up well. What I loved about this framework is you're not forced to any particular folder structure, you're your master. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Phalcon? Don't know why this framework is still uncovered in other platforms and still way fewer developers and contributions. When I discovered about this framework, there were fewer developers using this framework and the community was still growing slowly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Phalcon: At least you should try once. It's not that hard to use if you are familiar with the MVC structure. You are free to use your own directory structures and do whatever you want. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Phalcon solving and how is that benefiting you? I used this framework for clients who asks for speed and are care less about what is the internal structure of the codes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![JinMing J.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "JinMing J.") JJ JinMing J. Web Developer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 9/4/2020 "Nice than I expected." 4/5 What do you like best about Phalcon? Easy to learn is why I think it is good. In my sight, whoever is familiar with basic knowledge in PHP/MySQL can learn Phalcon. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Phalcon? It has MVC structures like Laravel, CI and other frameworks, but compared to them, I think it is a bit of lack of routering features. In order to improve this function, it would have to be a structure and syntax similar to that of Laravel, I think. They have already become familiar with many developers and Beginners and are recognized as a reasonable option. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Phalcon solving and how is that benefiting you? Creating a new website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Mohammed M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mohammed M.") MM Mohammed M. Product Development Professional Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/25/2020 "Meals booking service with PhalconPHP" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Phalcon? The #1 reason why I fancied phalconPHP framework was the fact that its VERY FAST! as a seasoned PHP developer I liked the idea of being able to deliver even faster solutions without leaving my preferred PHP language. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Phalcon? The only thing I didn't like about this framework is the lack of resources, the community is still not mature enough and I faced cases where answer to a specific problem wasn't actually working, I had to dig deeper to find out why, but I think the team is working hard to improve their documentation and hence help the community grow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Phalcon solving and how is that benefiting you? Again, it's the speed, I'm amazed with how fast this framework is. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Flavius P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Flavius P.") FP Flavius P. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/24/2020 "My expericence wih Phalcon Framework" 4/5 What do you like best about Phalcon? Fast execution of queries and possibility to handle what library you need or not Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Phalcon? Mocking a lot of objects to avoid Query::execute Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Phalcon: Yes why not. It's a wonderful experience and see another vision than using Laravel or Symfony Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Phalcon solving and how is that benefiting you? I used Phalcon to rewrite a big monolith project into microservices. I gain a lot in term of performance , because we had big databases with large tables having millions of rows Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite TT Truong T. Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/24/2020 "Best framework ever I use" 5/5 What do you like best about Phalcon? Simple, Fast, Smart,. This is the best framework in the world. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Phalcon? Not easy to setup, because this framework on linux, and we need do more step to install it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Phalcon: This is the best framework pho in the world, highly recommend use it for develop Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Phalcon solving and how is that benefiting you? No, I dont have any problem with phalcon framwork. This is a framework php very fast and easy to develop. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. 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