LaunchDarkly alternatives

3 tools to consider instead of LaunchDarkly, shown against it.

LaunchDarkly Harness Feature Management & Experimentation (formerly Split) Unleash Flagsmith
Vendor LaunchDarkly Harness Unleash Flagsmith
Pricing model Subscription Quote only Free tier + paid plans Free tier + paid plans
Free tier Yes — Yes Yes
Deployment Cloud Cloud Cloud, Self-hosted Cloud, Self-hosted
Open source No No Yes (AGPL-3.0) Yes (BSD-3-Clause)
Best for Engineering teams that want feature-flag-driven releases with built-in experiment analysis on the same flags. Teams already using or evaluating Harness for delivery pipelines who want flagging and experimentation in the same platform. Engineering teams wanting an open-source flagging system with basic rollout experimentation, self-hostable under AGPLv3. Engineering teams wanting a fully open-source, self-hostable flagging system with light A/B testing.
Pricing

Free Developer plan with 100K experimentation MAU/month; paid Foundation plan bills per service connection and per 1K client-side MAU; Enterprise is custom.

Developer $0/month
Foundation $10 per service connection/month + $8.33 per 1K client-side MAU/month
Enterprise custom

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Bundled only in Harness's Enterprise plan; no standalone public pricing.

Checked on the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026: no prices are published. Expect to be quoted.

Free self-hosted open source (1 project, 2 environments, 5,000 flags); Pay-As-You-Go cloud is $75/seat/month; Enterprise is custom.

Open Source $0
Pay-As-You-Go $75/seat/month
Enterprise custom

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Free tier up to 50,000 requests/month; Start-Up from $40/month; Scale-Up from $250/month; Enterprise custom.

Free $0/month
Start-Up from $40/month (annual)
Scale-Up from $250/month (annual)
Enterprise custom ("Contact Sales")

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Features
  • Feature flags across server, client, and mobile SDKs
  • Progressive rollouts, targeting rules, and kill switches
  • Experimentation with a choice of frequentist or Bayesian analysis
  • Sequential analysis for continuous monitoring
  • Guardian add-on for automatic rollback on regressions
  • Audit logs and RBAC for release governance
  • Feature flags with targeting rules and progressive delivery
  • Built-in impact monitoring against flag rollouts
  • Statistical experimentation on flag-exposed cohorts
  • SDK-based event collection
  • Bundled with Harness CI/CD and delivery platform
  • Alerting on metric regressions during rollout
  • Feature flags with targeting rules and gradual rollouts
  • Rollout-based experimentation on flagged traffic
  • 25+ official SDKs
  • Self-hosted (AGPLv3) or managed cloud
  • Multi-region edge and private-instance add-ons
  • Unlimited flags, projects, and experiments on paid plans
  • Feature flags and remote configuration
  • User and segment targeting rules, multivariate flags
  • A/B testing on flagged rollouts
  • Open-source core (BSD-3-Clause), self-hostable
  • 2FA and SAML/SSO on higher tiers
  • REST API and SDKs across major platforms

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