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Kameleoon vs Flagsmith

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 $495 per month (PBX Starter: 10 experiments, 50k tested visitors)

Trial only

From $40 per month (Start-Up, billed yearly; $45 monthly)

Free tier

What drives the bill

The metric that actually scales your invoice.

Kameleoon now publishes an entry price. Above Starter it is priced by traffic and modules on a custom quote.

Free covers 50k requests a month and one seat; Start-Up raises that to 1M requests and 3 seats, Scale-Up is $250/month yearly. Considerably cheaper than LaunchDarkly, and self-hosting removes usage pricing entirely.

Free tier

30-day trial, no card, up to 3 experiments.

Free cloud tier with a monthly request allowance; open-source self-hosting is unlimited.

Open source

BSD-3-Clause (core)

Self-hostable

No-code authoring

Languages

JavaScriptPythonJavaC#PHPGoCodeless
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonJavaC#GoRubyPHPSwiftKotlin

Platforms

WebAPIiOSAndroid
WebAPIiOSAndroid

Fits teams

Scale-up / mid-marketEnterprise
Solo / side projectStartupScale-up / mid-marketEnterprise

Adoption

Established

Kameleoon · since 2012

Established

Flagsmith · since 2018

Strengths

  • Genuinely good hybrid model — the same experiment can run client- and server-side.
  • Effective anti-flicker implementation.
  • EU hosting with healthcare-grade compliance options.
  • Genuinely easy self-hosting with a Docker image and Helm chart.
  • Simple, comprehensible pricing.
  • Remote config alongside flags, which covers a lot of mobile use cases.

Limitations

  • Smaller market presence outside Europe.
  • Only the entry tier is priced publicly; everything above it is a sales conversation.
  • Fewer third-party integrations than Optimizely.
  • Experimentation features are basic.
  • Smaller company and community than the leaders.
  • Fewer governance controls for large organisations.

Best for

European enterprises needing both marketer and developer experimentation under GDPR.

Teams wanting straightforward flags without LaunchDarkly pricing or Unleash's operational depth.

All of these integrate with: Segment.

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