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GrowthBook vs AB Tasty

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 $40 per seat/month (cloud Pro, up to 30 users and 3 projects)

Free tier

Quote on request

Quote only

What drives the bill

The metric that actually scales your invoice.

Seat-based rather than usage-based, so cost tracks the number of people using the platform rather than your traffic — which is why it stays dramatically cheaper than the commercial platforms at scale, especially self-hosted.

Quote-based annual contracts priced by traffic volume, now sold as part of the merged Wingify platform.

Free tier

Self-hosted open source is free with unlimited users on 1 project; the cloud Starter tier is free for up to 3 users.

No free tier; demo on request.

Open source

MIT (core)

Self-hostable

No-code authoring

Languages

JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonJavaC#GoRubyPHPSwiftKotlin
JavaScriptPythonJavaC#PHPCodeless

Platforms

WebAPIiOSAndroid
WebAPIiOSAndroid

Fits teams

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

Adoption

Widely used

GrowthBook · since 2021

Established

Wingify (VWO + AB Tasty) · since 2009

Strengths

  • Warehouse-native by design — no duplicate event pipeline and no data leaving your control.
  • Self-hosting removes per-user-volume pricing entirely.
  • Both Bayesian and frequentist engines with sequential testing support.
  • EU hosting and GDPR posture simplify European procurement.
  • Good balance between marketer-friendly editing and server-side flags.
  • Strong support reputation in European markets.

Limitations

  • Requires a working data warehouse and someone who can define metrics in SQL.
  • Self-hosting is operational work you own.
  • Less polished governance and approval tooling than LaunchDarkly.
  • 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.

Best for

Data-mature teams that already have a warehouse and want to avoid volume-based pricing.

European e-commerce and media companies with GDPR-driven vendor requirements.

All of these integrate with: Segment, Slack.

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