ConfigCat vs LaunchDarkly

From $110 per month (Pro)

Free tier available

Plans run Free, Pro $110, Smart $325, Enterprise $900 and Dedicated $4,500 a month. Unlimited seats and unlimited flag reads on every plan, including free — unusual and genuinely valuable for wide access; paid tiers mainly raise flag, environment and product limits.

LaunchDarkly has dropped per-seat pricing: Developer is free with unlimited seats, and Foundation is pay-as-you-go on service connections and client-side monthly active users with no platform or seat fee. High-traffic consumer products still get expensive, but now through MAU rather than seats. Enterprise is quote-based.

Free forever plan with a monthly config-request allowance and unlimited members.

Developer plan is free forever with unlimited seats.

Established

ConfigCat · since 2018

Category standard

LaunchDarkly · since 2014

• Unlimited team members at every tier, so product and support can toggle flags too.
• Very simple to adopt — an afternoon, not a project.
• Broad SDK coverage including Dart and Elixir.

• Extremely reliable flag delivery with offline fallbacks — this is infrastructure you can trust in the request path.
• Best-in-class governance: approval workflows, audit logs, role-based access.
• Code references and stale-flag detection actually help you remove dead flags.

• No experimentation or analytics to speak of.
• Limited targeting sophistication compared to LaunchDarkly.
• Small vendor.

• Still the expensive option once client-side MAU volume is real, even after the move off per-seat pricing.
• Experimentation is competent but less sophisticated than dedicated statistics platforms.
• Usage-based billing on service connections and MAU is harder to forecast than a seat count.

Teams that want simple, cheap flags accessible to the whole company.

Engineering organisations where flags are critical infrastructure and governance is required.