LaunchDarkly vs Split

Free tier available

Free tier available

LaunchDarkly has dropped per-seat pricing: Developer is free with unlimited seats, and Foundation is pay-as-you-go on service connections and client-side monthly active users with no platform or seat fee. High-traffic consumer products still get expensive, but now through MAU rather than seats. Enterprise is quote-based.

Paid tiers are quote-based, priced by monthly tracked keys.

Developer plan is free forever with unlimited seats.

Free tier with limited monthly tracked keys.

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LaunchDarkly · since 2014

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Harness · since 2015

• Extremely reliable flag delivery with offline fallbacks — this is infrastructure you can trust in the request path.
• Best-in-class governance: approval workflows, audit logs, role-based access.
• Code references and stale-flag detection actually help you remove dead flags.

• Automatic metric impact on every flag catches regressions nobody thought to measure.
• Guardrail alerts stop a bad rollout before it reaches everyone.
• Strong data-platform integrations.

• Still the expensive option once client-side MAU volume is real, even after the move off per-seat pricing.
• Experimentation is competent but less sophisticated than dedicated statistics platforms.
• Usage-based billing on service connections and MAU is harder to forecast than a seat count.

• Post-acquisition roadmap now sits inside Harness's broader platform strategy.
• Requires meaningful event instrumentation before the impact analysis is useful.
• Opaque enterprise pricing.

Engineering organisations where flags are critical infrastructure and governance is required.

Teams that want every release measured, not just deliberate experiments.