AB Tasty vs Unleash
Feature checklists rarely decide anything. What decides it is the pricing metric, who has to write the tests, and which limitation you can live with.
Entry price
Quote on request
Quote onlyFrom $75 per seat/month (Pay-As-You-Go, 5-seat minimum self-hosted)
Free tierWhat drives the bill
The metric that actually scales your invoice.
Quote-based annual contracts priced by traffic volume, now sold as part of the merged Wingify platform.
Self-hosted open source is genuinely free within its project and environment caps. Pay-As-You-Go includes 53M API requests a month with $5 per additional million; Enterprise is an annual custom contract adding SSO, audit and change requests.
Free tier
No free tier; demo on request.
Open-source edition is free and self-hosted with no seat limit, but capped at 1 project, 2 environments and 5,000 flags.
Open source
Apache-2.0 (core)
Self-hostable
No-code authoring
Languages
Platforms
Fits teams
Adoption
Established
Wingify (VWO + AB Tasty) · since 2009
Widely used
Unleash / Bricks Software · since 2014
Strengths
- EU hosting and GDPR posture simplify European procurement.
- Good balance between marketer-friendly editing and server-side flags.
- Strong support reputation in European markets.
- Local evaluation means no user data leaves your infrastructure — a strong GDPR position.
- Mature, well-documented open-source core with no artificial crippling.
- Kubernetes and Terraform support for infrastructure-as-code workflows.
Limitations
- Less well known outside Europe, with a smaller partner ecosystem.
- Quote-based pricing with no self-serve entry.
- Statistics engine is less differentiated than the warehouse-native platforms.
- Experimentation and analytics are thin; it is a flag system first.
- Self-hosting means you own uptime for something in your request path.
- Smaller ecosystem than LaunchDarkly.
Best for
European e-commerce and media companies with GDPR-driven vendor requirements.
Privacy-sensitive or cost-sensitive teams that want flags without sending user data to a vendor.
All of these integrate with: Slack.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.