LaunchDarkly API pricing: plans, free tier and what to watch for

LaunchDarkly API pricing at a glance: Developer $0/month, Foundation $10 per service connection/mo (or $8.33 per 1K client-side MAU/mo), Enterprise Custom, Guardian Custom

The short answer

LaunchDarkly is billed per-seat + mau-based. It has a free tier: Developer plan: unlimited flags, 1 project, 2 environments, 1k MAU for experimentation. The paid plans we list start at $10 per service connection/mo (or $8.33 per 1K client-side MAU/mo) (Foundation).

Plans and prices

Plan	Price	What it covers
Developer	$0/month	Free forever, no credit card. Unlimited seats and feature flags, A/B tests, ~5,000 AI runs/month with no overages, 10M logs/traces, 14-day data retention.
Foundation	$10 per service connection/mo (or $8.33 per 1K client-side MAU/mo)	Billed annually. Unlimited projects, scalable observability/experimentation, AgentControl AI runs at $5 per 1K beyond the 5,000 baseline, 30-day data retention.
Enterprise	Custom	Advanced targeting, release automation, workflows/scheduling/approvals, SAML/SCIM, custom AI run amounts, 100+ days data retention.
Guardian	Custom	Everything in Enterprise plus release monitoring, guardrail metrics, and automatic pause/rollback on metric regressions.

How LaunchDarkly bills you

The pricing model is per-seat + mau-based. The category-defining incumbent with the deepest enterprise governance, release automation, and the broadest official SDK matrix. Best suited to: enterprise feature management and progressive delivery.

What to watch for on the bill

Expensive for small teams and startups; per-seat/per-connection costs are a frequent complaint and median enterprise contracts run ~$72k/year
Pricing model is complex and hard to predict, layering service connections, per-1K MAU charges, and metered add-ons for experimentation, session replay, and AI runs
Provisioning seats is reported as a recurring friction point due to cost
UX for in-depth flag configuration and per-user targeting can feel clunky or hard to understand

The pricing page we read

LaunchDarkly pricing page, captured for reference — Capture of launchdarkly.com. Captured from Germany, so some vendors show local prices or currency. Listed prices are verified Jun 27, 2026. The live page may differ.

Source: https://launchdarkly.com/pricing/. Prices change, so confirm there before you commit.

Compare LaunchDarkly with alternatives

Other feature flag apis: Statsig, PostHog, ConfigCat, Split, Flagsmith.

Looking at quality rather than price? See the LaunchDarkly score on APIbenchmarks. Full entry: LaunchDarkly pricing.