LaunchDarkly vs Split

From $12 per seat/month plus context-based usage (indicative)

Free tier available

Priced on seats plus monthly contexts (roughly, unique users evaluated). High-traffic consumer products get expensive.

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

14-day trial; no permanent free tier.

Free tier with limited monthly tracked keys.

Category standard

LaunchDarkly · since 2014

Established

Harness · since 2015

• Extremely reliable flag delivery with offline fallbacks — this is infrastructure you can trust in the request path.
• Best-in-class governance: approval workflows, audit logs, role-based access.
• Code references and stale-flag detection actually help you remove dead flags.

• 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.

• The most expensive option in the category by a distance.
• Experimentation is competent but less sophisticated than dedicated statistics platforms.
• No meaningful free tier for evaluation.

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

Engineering organisations where flags are critical infrastructure and governance is required.

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