LaraBench is a free Tinkerwell alternative built for Laravel — run Tinker snippets and Artisan commands against real apps: local Herd/Valet/Sail/Laradock, SSH, and Docker. What's different: it shows what a run actually did. Every SQL query is captured with bindings and timing. Output renders as clean cards, not raw dumps. Benchmark mode compares two Eloquent approaches side by side. Production safety is built in. Tinkerwell is paid. LaraBench is free — Premium only adds sync and themes.

Hey Product Hunt 👋 Tinkerwell is great, but it's paid — and I wanted a Laravel-only version that goes deeper on visibility into what a run actually did. So I built LaraBench: a free Tinkerwell alternative for Laravel developers. Every time I ran a Tinker snippet, I'd wonder: how many queries did that fire? Were any of them slow? Did I just write to production by accident? Raw dumps don't answer that. LaraBench captures every SQL query a snippet or Artisan command runs — bindings, timing, connection — and shows it alongside clean structured output instead of a wall of var_dump noise. It also has a benchmark mode for comparing two Eloquent approaches side by side, and production safety controls (write detection, dry-run mode) for when you're debugging against a live database. It runs against local Herd/Valet/Sail/Laradock projects, plus SSH and Docker targets. The whole desktop app is free — Premium is optional and only adds cloud sync and custom themes. I'd love feedback, especially from anyone who lives in Tinker daily. What would make this an easy swap from Tinkerwell for you?

Finally got tired of paying for Tinkerwell and LaraBench actually delivers — ran a quick Eloquent snippet and the SQL capture showed the bindings inline, which made debugging way easier than digging through logs.

Finally tried LaraBench on a Herd site and seeing the SQL bindings captured automatically was a real time saver, way easier than digging through Telescope for quick checks.

LaraBench

The free Tinkerwell alternative for Laravel devs

The free Tinkerwell alternative for Laravel devs