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Kameleoon vs Unleash

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

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.

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 tier

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

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

Open source

Apache-2.0 (core)

Self-hostable

No-code authoring

Languages

JavaScriptPythonJavaC#PHPGoCodeless
JavaScriptTypeScriptJavaPythonGoC#RubyPHP

Platforms

WebAPIiOSAndroid
WebAPIiOSAndroid

Fits teams

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

Adoption

Established

Kameleoon · since 2012

Widely used

Unleash / Bricks Software · since 2014

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.
  • 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.

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 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.

Best for

European enterprises needing both marketer and developer experimentation under GDPR.

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

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