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VWO 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 tier

From $110 per month (Pro)

Free tier

What drives the bill

The metric that actually scales your invoice.

Priced by monthly tracked users across modules, so buying testing plus insights raises the total substantially. The Wingify rebrand has moved pricing behind Growth/Pro/Enterprise tiers without published figures — get a quote rather than relying on an old VWO list price.

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

Free starter plan with limited monthly tracked users.

Free forever plan with a monthly config-request allowance and unlimited members.

Open source

Self-hostable

No-code authoring

Languages

JavaScriptPythonJavaPHPCodeless
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonJavaC#GoRubyPHPSwiftKotlinDart

Platforms

WebiOSAndroid
WebAPIiOSAndroidDesktop

Fits teams

Scale-up / mid-marketEnterprise
Solo / side projectStartupScale-up / mid-market

Adoption

Widely used

Wingify (VWO + AB Tasty) · since 2010

Established

ConfigCat · since 2018

Strengths

  • Observation and experimentation in one place shortens the hypothesis loop.
  • Visual editor is capable and marketer-friendly.
  • Cheaper than Optimizely at comparable traffic.
  • 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

  • Module-based pricing means the useful configuration costs much more than the headline.
  • Client-side flicker on complex single-page applications.
  • Server-side capability lags the flag-first platforms.
  • No experimentation or analytics to speak of.
  • Limited targeting sophistication compared to LaunchDarkly.
  • Small vendor.

Best for

Conversion-optimisation teams that want testing and behavioural insight from one vendor.

Teams that want simple, cheap flags accessible to the whole company.

All of these integrate with: Slack.

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