--- title: Yii Reviews meta\_title: 'Yii Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 24 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Yii works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.2 review\_count: 24 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: Web Frameworks url: https://www.g2.com/categories/web-frameworks --- # Yii Reviews & Product Details The Fast, Secure and Professional PHP Framework * * * Seller [Yii Software](https://www.g2.com/sellers/yii-software) Discussions [Yii Community](https://www.g2.com/products/yii/discuss) Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/yii/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Laravel](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Laravel") Laravel 4.7/5(159) ](https://www.g2.com/products/laravel/reviews) [ ![Angular](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Angular") Angular 4.5/5(168) ](https://www.g2.com/products/angular/reviews) [ ![CodeIgniter](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "CodeIgniter") CodeIgniter 4.4/5(58) ](https://www.g2.com/products/codeigniter/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/yii/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 24 real user reviews. Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) DL dakota L. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 9/22/2018 "One of the best frameworks for interns" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Yii? In the final result, you get a fast and optimized product. Yii is an honest, effective, and fast framework that helps you drive large-scale structures and programs in a very short time. Yii2 offers a top-level response in advanced PHP development. Yii handles quality in a way that any other framework does. If you want something, there is a possibility that it already exists, and if not, it won't take you too long to build it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Yii? - Caching sometimes does not work well - The documentation is difficult to grasp x the documentation for Yii 2 is considerable Additionally, the extension search must advance - Caching sometimes does not look good - The documentation is difficult to grasp I can't find a certified framework course for Yii Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Yii: The blessings of Yii externalize the dangers through a massive scale. Great framework. In the longer term, it can store time. Great framework In the long term, it will save time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Yii solving and how is that benefiting you? Fast and robust superior development of PHP on the Internet Personal initiatives can be resolved quickly and easily. It keeps our codebase simple with a clear separation between perspectives and commercial business common sense x due to its progressive pace. Using Yii as a developer will save you a lot from creating new models, creating CRUD movements in simple steps, all mixed with element-based and event-oriented programming that helps ensure an exceptionally green, extensible, and maintainable delivery product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 inviteAI Translated GG Gonzalo G. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/31/2018 "Yii, a time saver." 4/5 What do you like best about Yii? What I like most about Yii is that promotes clean design and fast application development. The model is component-based, and event-oriented programming. It helps guarantee an extremely efficient, extensible and maintainable end product. The CRUD generation really stands out, giving the name of the database table and the model with all the attributes is created. You only define the data type (numeric, date, etc.), if the field is required, and those rules are always applied when you try to save / update the data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Yii? What I disliked about Yii or the weak point about is the fact that learning Yii requires quite enough knowledge about PHP language, programming skills, and about different add-on it comes with. Sometimes it gets boring and difficult for the beginners to learn from it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Yii: The advantages of Yii outsource the disadvantages by a large scale. Give it a try and learn or deploy in Yii. In the long run you will save time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Yii solving and how is that benefiting you? Using Yii as a developer will save you a lot of time creating new models, create CRUD actions in simple steps, all this combined with component-based, and event-oriented programming helping to guarantee an extremely efficient, extensible and maintainable end product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Internet](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Internet") UI Verified User in Internet Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/30/2018 "A good framework for PHP" 4/5 What do you like best about Yii? The great fleaxibility of the framework and the quickness in which the web applications are produced. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Yii? The documentation is overall pretty unclear and lacking of information so you will have to search a lot for being able to do acomplish this things. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Yii: Knowing the basics of PHP is enough to give it a try and see if it tailors your needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Yii solving and how is that benefiting you? Yii is very powerfull and adaptable to any needs so it is suitable for any kind of web projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Jonathan H.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jonathan H.") JH Jonathan H. PHP Coder, Web Designer, Technical/Project Management Telecommunications Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/9/2017 "A great framework both 1.x and 2.x" 5/5 What do you like best about Yii? Yii is a really powerful and fast framework that can help you push out large scale systems and applications at a very quick pace. One of the best things is the ability to mix multiple databases and display the information in which ever way you please. It has support for all the major databases and the number of extensions available is massive. If you need something the likelihood is that it already exists and if it doesn't it wont take you long to build. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Yii? Whilst the documentation for Yii 1.x are plentiful the documentation for Yii 2.x can be lacking in places. Yii 2.x is quite different from 1.x and therefore this can cause complication when trying to apply things from one framework to the next and migrating systems and applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Yii: It is best to learn both Yii 1.x and 2.x. I would certianly recommend users to start with 1.x so that they can see the core principles of the framework. Once done then move onto Yii 2.x as this framework is vastly more powerful and lightweight compared to its predecessor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Yii solving and how is that benefiting you? Yii is very powerful and I have used this to build CRM systems for business as well as many custom modules that make these system more adapted that off the shelf solutions. Each new system required has been based on Yii and more recently Yii 2.x due to it's improved speed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Ignacio S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ignacio S.") IS Ignacio S. CEO Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/15/2017 "Cool PHP framework" 5/5 What do you like best about Yii? Today is a heavy race between PHP frameworks out there, some ones are robust, another are faster. Today the leader is Laravel but that doesn't make the another frameworks less important or relevant. Yii2 offers a great solution in advanced PHP development. It comes with migrations system, composer support, CLI, and with one template you can build form terminal PHP apps to full advanced PHP web apps. Yii2 support many databases systems, from traditional SQL databases to NoSQL databases like Mongo. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Yii? Is tricky make it run in shared hosting, you need to hack some features in Apache or .htaccess files, will not run well by default. Needs some work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Yii: Yii2 is great for advanced web development, is not better or worse that other frameworks, each one offers different experiences but Yii2 is friendly, awesome and have a nice support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Yii solving and how is that benefiting you? Fast and robust advanced PHP web development. Group development (where migrations are a great tool) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Construction](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Construction") IC Verified User in Construction Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/8/2018 "Yii Framework" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Yii? That it saves me many lines of code due to the simplicity of its language Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Yii? I can't find a certified course on Yii framework Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Yii solving and how is that benefiting you? The applications of my company are made in Yii and with it I create the CRUD! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: OrganicAI Translated ![Thanh P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Thanh P.") TP Thanh P. Software Engineer Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/19/2017 "The fastest PHP framework, clean code and scalibility" 5/5 What do you like best about Yii? High performance, run very fast, near native code Easy to handling request by controller, use routing config by parameter and regular expression Provide many hook event, filter, security flow integrate native Strong debug and generation tool Easy to customize by using dependency injection Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Yii? Need experience to inject and customize code Difficult for beginner Must to learn about dependency injection Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Yii: Strong and fast Clean code and many great tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Yii solving and how is that benefiting you? Strong debug and generation tool Build REST API server faster and clean code Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Matthias Z.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Matthias Z.") MZ Matthias Z. Cofounder Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/8/2018 "We switched from Symfony to Yii and are happy with the choice" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Yii? There is a supportive community around Yii that helped us with migrating our code Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Yii? Yii was relatively new when we first started using it. There were some incompatibilities between major version releases that create effort on our end to ensure the code is compatible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Yii: Yes, recommend it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Yii solving and how is that benefiting you? It is keeping our codebase clean with a clear separation between views and business logic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/5/2017 "Evaluate on Yii" 5/5 What do you like best about Yii? - Gii tool to generate code, I really like it - Convenient database manipulation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Yii? - Caching sometimes does not work properly - The documentation is hard to understand Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Yii solving and how is that benefiting you? An easy to use and high-performance framework Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Juan M. C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Juan M. C.") JC Juan M. C. Project Manager, Joomla Team Leader, Programmer, Web Designer Internet Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/3/2017 "Yii feedback" 4/5 What do you like best about Yii? Easy CRUD creation and rapid prototyping. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Yii? Although the API service it's very flexible it still needs work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Yii solving and how is that benefiting you? Personal projects can be solved fast and easy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Seller invite ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. 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