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Unleash vs Kameleoon

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

From $75 per seat/month (Pay-As-You-Go, 5-seat minimum self-hosted)

Free tier

From $495 per month (PBX Starter: 10 experiments, 50k tested visitors)

Trial only

What drives the bill

The metric that actually scales your invoice.

Self-hosted open source is genuinely free within its project and environment caps. Pay-As-You-Go includes 53M API requests a month with $5 per additional million; Enterprise is an annual custom contract adding SSO, audit and change requests.

Kameleoon now publishes an entry price. Above Starter it is priced by traffic and modules on a custom quote.

Free tier

Open-source edition is free and self-hosted with no seat limit, but capped at 1 project, 2 environments and 5,000 flags.

30-day trial, no card, up to 3 experiments.

Open source

Apache-2.0 (core)

Self-hostable

No-code authoring

Languages

JavaScriptTypeScriptJavaPythonGoC#RubyPHP
JavaScriptPythonJavaC#PHPGoCodeless

Platforms

WebAPIiOSAndroid
WebAPIiOSAndroid

Fits teams

StartupScale-up / mid-marketEnterprise
Scale-up / mid-marketEnterprise

Adoption

Widely used

Unleash / Bricks Software · since 2014

Established

Kameleoon · since 2012

Strengths

  • Local evaluation means no user data leaves your infrastructure — a strong GDPR position.
  • Mature, well-documented open-source core with no artificial crippling.
  • Kubernetes and Terraform support for infrastructure-as-code workflows.
  • Genuinely good hybrid model — the same experiment can run client- and server-side.
  • Effective anti-flicker implementation.
  • EU hosting with healthcare-grade compliance options.

Limitations

  • Experimentation and analytics are thin; it is a flag system first.
  • Self-hosting means you own uptime for something in your request path.
  • Smaller ecosystem than LaunchDarkly.
  • Smaller market presence outside Europe.
  • Only the entry tier is priced publicly; everything above it is a sales conversation.
  • Fewer third-party integrations than Optimizely.

Best for

Privacy-sensitive or cost-sensitive teams that want flags without sending user data to a vendor.

European enterprises needing both marketer and developer experimentation under GDPR.

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