Our take
Pick Cerbos if app teams who will run the OSS PDP at $0 from disk or git, or start Hub PoC at $0/month (100 MAPs, 2 developers, 5 builds/week) and land on Development from $25/month when they need managed bundle distribution and a 3-month trial. Pick Unleash if platform / product teams who will self-host OSS at $0 (1 project, 2 environments, 5,000 flags, no SSO) while they ship a first kill switch, or start the
Best for
Cerbos Policies you start at $0
Unleash Flags you start at $75 Cloud or OSS $0
Free plan
Cerbos $0 · , “Free forever.” YAML policies, audit logs, CI/CD & IDE tooling, Git/Disk/Cloud/DB storage. Community support. Run the PDP in your environment
Unleash $0 · no seat limit. 1 project. 2 environments. 5,000 feature flags per instance. Core flags only — no SSO, SCIM, granular RBAC, change-request approvals, or support SLA
Lowest paid
Cerbos Production (Hub) $933/mo
Unleash Not published by the vendor
Runs where
Cerbos
Unleash Local; you host it
Watch out
Cerbos Hub “from $25” / “from $933” is MAP-metered
Unleash $75 is per Unleash seat, with Cloud API overage at $5/million after 53M
Last checked
Cerbos 2026-10-22 · cerbos.dev/pricing
Unleash 2026-10-22 · getunleash.io/pricing
app teams who will run the OSS PDP at $0 from disk or git, or start Hub PoC at $0/month (100 MAPs, 2 developers, 5 builds/week) and land on Development from $25/month when they need managed bundle distribution and a 3-month trial.
Read the Cerbos pageplatform / product teams who will self-host OSS at $0 (1 project, 2 environments, 5,000 flags, no SSO) while they ship a first kill switch, or start the 14-day Cloud trial and land on Pay-As-You-Go at $75/seat/month when they need SSO, change requests, and a 99.9% uptime card.
Read the Unleash page
