Optimizely vs ConfigCat
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
Quote on request
Quote onlyFrom $110 per month (Pro)
Free tierWhat drives the bill
The metric that actually scales your invoice.
Enterprise annual contracts, commonly in the tens of thousands and up. Priced by traffic and modules.
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.
Free tier
No free tier.
Free forever plan with a monthly config-request allowance and unlimited members.
Open source
Self-hostable
No-code authoring
Languages
Platforms
Fits teams
Adoption
Widely used
Optimizely · since 2010
Established
ConfigCat · since 2018
Strengths
- The most capable visual editor for non-technical experiment authoring.
- Deep personalisation and audience-targeting features.
- Established statistics with sequential testing, so peeking is handled correctly.
- 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.
Limitations
- Expensive, with a suite-oriented sales motion that pushes adjacent products.
- Client-side testing causes flicker and is increasingly blocked by browsers and blockers.
- Heavyweight for teams that only need a handful of experiments.
- No experimentation or analytics to speak of.
- Limited targeting sophistication compared to LaunchDarkly.
- Small vendor.
Best for
Large marketing organisations running continuous experimentation on high-traffic sites.
Teams that want simple, cheap flags accessible to the whole company.
All of these integrate with: Slack.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.