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Flagsmith vs GrowthBook

Our take

Pick Flagsmith if app teams who will stay on Cloud Free at $0 (50k requests/month, 1 member) or self-host while they ship a first Features table, then move to Start-Up at $40/month billed yearly ($45 monthly) when they need 1M requests, 3 members, scheduled flags, and email support. Pick GrowthBook if product/eng teams who will stay on Starter Free $0 (1 project, 1M warehouse events, no card) while they ship a first

Flagsmith

open-source feature-flag desk

GrowthBook

GrowthBook

open-source feature-flag + experiment desk

Best for

Flagsmith Flags you start at $0

GrowthBook Flags and A/B tests you start at $0 (1 project, no card)

Free plan

Flagsmith $0 · up to 50,000 requests/month. Up to 100,000 users in experiments. 1 team member. Unlimited feature flags, environments, identities, and segments (fair-usage). Additional API calls start at $50/million/month and decrease with volume

GrowthBook $0 · 1 project. Bring your own warehouse. Managed warehouse option. 1M events/mo. 1M CDN requests/mo. 5 GB CDN bandwidth/mo. No card

Lowest paid

Flagsmith Overage $7

GrowthBook Overage (Pro) $30

Next step up

Flagsmith

GrowthBook Pro $40/mo

Watch out

Flagsmith Free is 50k requests/month and 1 member

GrowthBook Starter is 1 project and 1M events

Last checked

Flagsmith 2026-10-23 · flagsmith.com/pricing

GrowthBook 2026-10-22 · growthbook.io/pricing

Which one, then?

Pick Flagsmith if

app teams who will stay on Cloud Free at $0 (50k requests/month, 1 member) or self-host while they ship a first Features table, then move to Start-Up at $40/month billed yearly ($45 monthly) when they need 1M requests, 3 members, scheduled flags, and email support.

Read the Flagsmith page

Pick GrowthBook if

product/eng teams who will stay on Starter Free $0 (1 project, 1M warehouse events, no card) while they ship a first flag, then buy Pro at $40 per seat / month when they need 3 projects, 2M events, and advanced experiment stats.

Read the GrowthBook page

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