ConfigCat vs Unleash

From $110 per month (Pro)

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

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.

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

Open-source edition is free and self-hosted with no seat limit, but capped at 1 project, 2 environments and 5,000 flags.

Established

ConfigCat · since 2018

Widely used

Unleash / Bricks Software · 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.

• 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.

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

• 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.

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

Privacy-sensitive or cost-sensitive teams that want flags without sending user data to a vendor.