LaunchDarkly vs ConfigCat pricing
Both are in feature flag apis. LaunchDarkly is billed per-seat + mau-based; ConfigCat is billed flat tier (config fetches). Numbers below are copied from each vendor's pricing page.
LaunchDarklyFree tier or trial
- Free tier
- Developer plan: unlimited flags, 1 project, 2 environments, 1k MAU for experimentation
- Billed
- Per-seat + MAU-based
- Best for
- Enterprise feature management and progressive delivery
- Verified
- Jun 27, 2026
ConfigCatFree tier or trial
- Free tier
- Free: 10 flags, unlimited seats, unlimited flag reads
- Billed
- Flat tier (config fetches)
- Best for
- Simple flat-priced feature flags for any team size
- Verified
- Jun 27, 2026
LaunchDarkly plans
| 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. |
- 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
ConfigCat plans
| Plan | Price | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Forever Free | $0/mo | 10 feature flags, 2 environments, 2 products, 2 segments, 4 targeting rules/flag, 1 webhook, 7-day audit log; unlimited seats & MAUs. |
| Pro | $110/mo | 100 flags, 3 environments, 3 products, 8 targeting rules/flag, 3 webhooks, API access, tech-debt tools, 35-day audit log. |
| Smart | $325/mo | Unlimited flags/environments/segments/webhooks, 10 products, unlimited permission groups, 35-day audit log. |
| Enterprise | $900/mo | Unlimited everything, 99.99% uptime SLA, 2-year audit log retention, premium SLA support. |
| Dedicated | $4,500/mo | Private cloud deployment, 99.99% SLA, 2-year audit log, software escrow available, premium support. |
- Higher tiers jump steeply ($110 → $325 → $900 → $4,500)
- Lower tiers cap flags/environments/products, forcing upgrades for larger projects
- Free tier carries no SLA service credits and only a 99% uptime commitment
Source: https://configcat.com/pricing/