Unleash vs ConfigCat

From $80 per month (indicative, hosted Pro)

From $99 per month (indicative, Pro)

Self-hosted open source is genuinely free; enterprise adds SSO, audit and change requests.

Unlimited seats on every plan, including free — unusual and genuinely valuable for wide access.

Open-source edition is free and self-hosted with no user limits.

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

Widely used

Unleash / Bricks Software · since 2014

Established

ConfigCat · since 2018

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• No experimentation or analytics to speak of.
• Limited targeting sophistication compared to LaunchDarkly.
• Small vendor.

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

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