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 Unleash if platform / product teams who will self-host OSS at $0 (1 project, 2 environments, 5,000 flags, no SSO) while they ship
open-source feature-flag desk
Best for
Flagsmith Flags you start at $0
Unleash Flags you start at $75 Cloud or OSS $0
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
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
Flagsmith Overage $7
Unleash Not published by the vendor
Runs where
Flagsmith
Unleash Local; you host it
Watch out
Flagsmith Free is 50k requests/month and 1 member
Unleash $75 is per Unleash seat, with Cloud API overage at $5/million after 53M
Last checked
Flagsmith 2026-10-23 · flagsmith.com/pricing
Unleash 2026-10-22 · getunleash.io/pricing
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 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