Our take
Pick ConfigCat if app teams who will stay on Forever Free at $0 (5M downloads/month, 100 flags, 3 envs, 3 products, no card) while they open a first flag dashboard, then buy Pro at $110/month when they need 25M downloads and unlimited flags/environments. 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
hosted feature-flag desk
Best for
ConfigCat Flags you start at $0
Unleash Flags you start at $75 Cloud or OSS $0
Free plan
ConfigCat $0 · no card. 5 million config.json downloads/month (~2/s). 20 GB traffic. 100 flags, 3 environments, 3 products. 4 targeting rules/flag. 2 permission groups. Audit log 7 days. 99% uptime. Email + Slack community
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
ConfigCat Dedicated $4/mo
Unleash Not published by the vendor
Next step up
ConfigCat Pro $110/mo
Unleash
Runs where
ConfigCat Local or hosted
Unleash Local; you host it
Watch out
ConfigCat The meter is config.json downloads, not flag reads
Unleash $75 is per Unleash seat, with Cloud API overage at $5/million after 53M
Last checked
ConfigCat 2026-10-23 · configcat.com/pricing
Unleash 2026-10-22 · getunleash.io/pricing
app teams who will stay on Forever Free at $0 (5M downloads/month, 100 flags, 3 envs, 3 products, no card) while they open a first flag dashboard, then buy Pro at $110/month when they need 25M downloads and unlimited flags/environments.
Read the ConfigCat 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