Using Bcrypt in Laravel

Code
<?php

use Illuminate\Hashing\BcryptHasher;

$hasher = new BcryptHasher();

$str = 'Budgie';
// uses php 5.5 password_hash()
$hash = $hasher->make($str);
// uses php 5.5 password_verify()
$isValid = $hasher->check($str, $hash);

dump($str, $hash, $isValid);
Result
^ "Budgie"

^ "$2y$10$Zj/3GFoATL6suF.tL9Dxiu4EUJY4NEUmctGwWe5wUXtKBxvY6LQia"

^ true
Used Versions
PHP 8.3, Laminas MVC 3.2, Symfony 5.2, Laravel 8.28, PHPUnit 9.5, Doctrine ORM 2.8