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Statsig vs Flagsmith

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 tier

From $40 per month (Start-Up, billed yearly; $45 monthly)

Free tier

What 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.

Free covers 50k requests a month and one seat; Start-Up raises that to 1M requests and 3 seats, Scale-Up is $250/month yearly. Considerably cheaper than LaunchDarkly, and self-hosting removes usage pricing entirely.

Free tier

Generous free tier including unlimited feature flags and a large monthly event allowance.

Free cloud tier with a monthly request allowance; open-source self-hosting is unlimited.

Open source

BSD-3-Clause (core)

Self-hostable

No-code authoring

Languages

JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonJavaC#GoRubySwiftKotlin
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonJavaC#GoRubyPHPSwiftKotlin

Platforms

WebAPIiOSAndroid
WebAPIiOSAndroid

Fits teams

StartupScale-up / mid-marketEnterprise
Solo / side projectStartupScale-up / mid-marketEnterprise

Adoption

Widely used

Statsig (Amplitude) · since 2020

Established

Flagsmith · 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.
  • Genuinely easy self-hosting with a Docker image and Helm chart.
  • Simple, comprehensible pricing.
  • Remote config alongside flags, which covers a lot of mobile use cases.

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.
  • Experimentation features are basic.
  • Smaller company and community than the leaders.
  • Fewer governance controls for large organisations.

Best for

Product teams that want experimentation and analytics to share one source of truth.

Teams wanting straightforward flags without LaunchDarkly pricing or Unleash's operational depth.

All of these integrate with: Segment, Slack, Datadog.

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