Unleash offers no surprises on your invoice, which makes it easier to plan growth. For most users, Unleash is ¼ the cost of LaunchDarkly with more flexibility and more enterprise capabilities.
Unleash vs. LaunchDarkly
Take back control of your feature releases—without the cost and complexity of LaunchDarkly
Unleash gives you full control over when and how features are released—without the hidden costs or rigid infrastructure of LaunchDarkly
◾ Simple pricing, no surprises
◾ Deploy in your cloud or on-prem
◾ Largest open-source solution
◾ Built for enterprise scale
Join 100k+ active users who recommend Unleash
The only feature management solution recommended by ThoughtWorks
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21M+ downloads on Docker
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Open-source with over 11K+ GitHub Stars
More control. More flexibility. Half the cost
Unleash gives you everything you need to scale feature management - without the vendor lock-in or surprise bills
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See how much you could save with Unleash. Most users cut their LaunchDarkly bill by 75% or more.
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How does Unleash compare to LaunchDarkly?
| Pricing | |
|---|---|
Pricing model | Simple seat-based pricing with generous traffic allowance at no extra cost |
Monthly-active-users (MAUs) | $0 Unleash does not charge based on MAUs |
Service Connections | $0 Unleash does not charge based on Service Connections |
| Hosting & Architecture | |
Open-source | |
Hosting Options | SaaS or Self-hosted |
Single-tenant SaaS instances | |
Advanced PII Protection | |
| Enteprise-wide readiness | |
Flag portability | Move and reuse flags across org-wide projects without app changes |
Cross-team collaboration & change management | |
Comprehensive change requests | |
Validate complex changes before pushing live | |
Targeting Extensibility | |
| Third-party recommendation | |
Recommended for Engineering teams by Thoughtworks | |
Frequently Asked Questions
No, Unleash charges primarily by user. Additionally, 53 million monthly API requests are included with our pay-as-you-go Cloud hosted offering and even more with our annual plans. If you need more than 53 million monthly API requests with our pay-as-you-go offering, you can purchase more at a bundled rate of $5/million requests.
LaunchDarkly charges based on monthly active users and how many application instances you run. The more users or replicas of your applications, the higher the price. Unleash has a simple pricing model based primarily on users with a generous traffic allowance at no extra cost. Find out how much you can save over LaunchDarkly by speaking to sales.
Absolutely. Unleash was designed to run anywhere: our managed SaaS, private cloud, or on-premises.
We think that Unleash is simply the best platform for enterprise experimentation. The reason is that we are super flexible and can integrate with any analytics system to meet the diverse needs of different teams. What we have seen working with some of the largest companies in the world is that one size doesn’t fit all when it comes to analytics – some teams prefer Google Analytics, others rely on telemetry data streamed to Grafana, and some use data warehouses. Unleash empowers engineering and product teams to integrate with their favorite analytics provider, giving them the freedom to work how they want. Our SDKs makes it easy to send experimental impression data to any system, streamlining experimentation in addition to all the other feature management use cases we support.
Unleash was architected from the ground up to protect your PII and we make it possible so that no user data ever leaves your premises. For the strictest data privacy use cases, Unleash gives you the flexibility to control where user data is processed. If you’re using server-side SDKs, user data never leaves your infrastructure. For client-side SDKs, you have options: you can self-host Unleash or just Unleash Edge to ensure all user data stays within your environment. For client-side SDKs when using the Unleash Cloud or Unleash Enterprise Edge, data is only retained in short-term cache and never stored long-term. This means you can design your feature flagging setup to align with your privacy and compliance needs while still benefiting from Unleash’s powerful capabilities.
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"We flipped the most important flag we could when we went from our in-house system to Unleash. Right away we found that it was scalable, highly performant, resilient out of the box. And Unleash ended up being 1/3 the cost of our homegrown feature flag solution, while also improving the reliability and scalability of our platform."
Mark Quigley
Head of Internal Developer Platforms and Engineering Enablement, Wayfair
