Unleash vs Split

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

Free tier available

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.

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

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

Free tier with limited monthly tracked keys.

Widely used

Unleash / Bricks Software · since 2014

Established

Harness · since 2015

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

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