It works as well with a 450nm diode laser. About 1W worth of laser power will ablate soldermask as well but you risk burning off really small pads because they cannot really dissipate heat anymore. Especially NC pads tend to burn off. I’ve tried it and it works reasonably well by doing the drilling as the last step.

450nm is unfortunately not good enough to cure soldermask, 405nm is much more effective.