Statsig 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
Free tier available
Free tierFrom $110 per month (Pro)
Free tierWhat drives the bill
The metric that actually scales your invoice.
One of the most generous free tiers in developer tooling; paid usage is billed on analytics events, not seats.
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
Generous free tier including unlimited feature flags and a large monthly event allowance.
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
Statsig (Amplitude) · since 2020
Established
ConfigCat · since 2018
Strengths
- Statistics engine is genuinely strong — sequential testing and CUPED are not marketing veneer.
- Flags, experiments and analytics in one system removes a whole class of integration work.
- Warehouse-native mode satisfies data-governance requirements.
- 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
- Event-based pricing can escalate sharply on high-volume products.
- Broad surface area means a real learning curve.
- Changed hands twice in under a year — OpenAI acqui-hired the founding team in September 2025, and Amplitude took over the product and brand in May 2026, so the roadmap is still settling.
- No experimentation or analytics to speak of.
- Limited targeting sophistication compared to LaunchDarkly.
- Small vendor.
Best for
Product teams that want experimentation and analytics to share one source of truth.
Teams that want simple, cheap flags accessible to the whole company.
All of these integrate with: Slack, Datadog.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.