Split vs GrowthBook

Free tier available

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

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

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.

Free tier with limited monthly tracked keys.

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

Established

Harness · since 2015

Widely used

GrowthBook · since 2021

• 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.

• 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.

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

• 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.

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

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