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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 only

From $75 per seat/month (Pay-As-You-Go, 5-seat minimum self-hosted)

Free tier

What 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

JavaScriptPythonJavaC#PHPCodeless
JavaScriptTypeScriptJavaPythonGoC#RubyPHP

Platforms

WebAPIiOSAndroid
WebAPIiOSAndroid

Fits teams

Scale-up / mid-marketEnterprise
StartupScale-up / mid-marketEnterprise

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.