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ConfigCat vs Statsig

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

From $110 per month (Pro)

Free tier

Free tier available

Free tier

What drives the bill

The metric that actually scales your invoice.

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.

One of the most generous free tiers in developer tooling; paid usage is billed on analytics events, not seats.

Free tier

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

Generous free tier including unlimited feature flags and a large monthly event allowance.

Open source

Self-hostable

No-code authoring

Languages

JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonJavaC#GoRubyPHPSwiftKotlinDart
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonJavaC#GoRubySwiftKotlin

Platforms

WebAPIiOSAndroidDesktop
WebAPIiOSAndroid

Fits teams

Solo / side projectStartupScale-up / mid-market
StartupScale-up / mid-marketEnterprise

Adoption

Established

ConfigCat · since 2018

Widely used

Statsig (Amplitude) · since 2020

Strengths

  • 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.
  • Statistics engine is genuinely strong — sequential testing and CUPED are not marketing veneer.
  • Flags, experiments and analytics in one system removes a whole class of integration work.
  • Warehouse-native mode satisfies data-governance requirements.

Limitations

  • No experimentation or analytics to speak of.
  • Limited targeting sophistication compared to LaunchDarkly.
  • Small vendor.
  • Event-based pricing can escalate sharply on high-volume products.
  • Broad surface area means a real learning curve.
  • Changed hands twice in under a year — OpenAI acqui-hired the founding team in September 2025, and Amplitude took over the product and brand in May 2026, so the roadmap is still settling.

Best for

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

Product teams that want experimentation and analytics to share one source of truth.

All of these integrate with: Slack, Datadog.

Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.