Our take
Pick LaunchDarkly if product / platform teams who will stay on Developer at $0 / month forever (unlimited seats, 5 service connections, 1K client-side MAU) while they open a first Flags list, then pay Foundation at $10 per service connection / month and $8.33 per 1k client-side MAU once usage is on the estimator. Pick Unleash if platform / product teams who will self-host OSS at $0 (1 project, 2 environments, 5,000
Best for
LaunchDarkly Flags you toggle in production
Unleash Flags you start at $75 Cloud or OSS $0
Free plan
LaunchDarkly $0 · / month, forever. Unlimited seats. 100K experimentation MAU / month. 10M logs and 10M traces / month. Unlimited feature flags. 5 service connections and 1K client-side MAU / month. 5K session replays and 5K errors / month. AgentControl: 5k AI runs / month, 14-day retention. No credit card
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
LaunchDarkly
Unleash Not published by the vendor
Coding agent
LaunchDarkly AgentControl
Unleash
Runs where
LaunchDarkly Hosted
Unleash Local; you host it
Watch out
LaunchDarkly Developer caps service connections at 5 and client-side MAU at 1K / month
Unleash $75 is per Unleash seat, with Cloud API overage at $5/million after 53M
Last checked
LaunchDarkly 2026-10-23 · launchdarkly.com/pricing
Unleash 2026-10-22 · getunleash.io/pricing
product / platform teams who will stay on Developer at $0 / month forever (unlimited seats, 5 service connections, 1K client-side MAU) while they open a first Flags list, then pay Foundation at $10 per service connection / month and $8.33 per 1k client-side MAU once usage is on the estimator.
Read the LaunchDarkly 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
