Flagsmith vs. LaunchDarkly

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Flagsmith
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Flagsmith, from the company of the same name in London, allows users to manage feature flags across web, mobile and server side applications in order to deliver true Continuous Integration and get builds out faster, as well as control who has access to new features. Flagsmtih offers a hosted API, or it can be deployed to a private cloud, or run on-premise.N/A
LaunchDarkly
Score 7.6 out of 10
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LaunchDarkly provides a feature management platform that enables DevOps and Product teams to use feature flags at scale. This allows for greater collaboration among team members, and increased usability testing before full-scale feature deployment.
$12
per month per Service Connection per month, or $10 per 1k client-side MAU per mo
Pricing
FlagsmithLaunchDarkly
Editions & Modules
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Foundation
$12
per month per Service Connection per month, or $10 per 1k client-side MAU per mo
Enterprise
Custom
Guardian
Custom
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
FlagsmithLaunchDarkly
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsDiscount available on the Foundation plan for annual pricing.
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User Ratings
FlagsmithLaunchDarkly
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
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10.0
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Likelihood to Renew
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7.0
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Usability
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7.4
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Availability
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10.0
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Performance
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8.1
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Support Rating
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10.0
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Implementation Rating
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9.0
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Configurability
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8.0
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Ease of integration
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8.0
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Product Scalability
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10.0
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Vendor post-sale
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8.0
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User Testimonials
FlagsmithLaunchDarkly
Likelihood to Recommend
Flagsmith is the best tool I worked with for feature flags, in terms of how easy and intuitive it is to use. On the other hand, it has all the features we need to effectively manage features.
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Great for rolling out features slowly for beta testing in production. I would say it is less well suited for toggling features permanently for users as this requires more integration with our backend and billing systems that would be a lot of work to set up.
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Pros
  • Controle features feasability
  • Create user segements
  • Mange multiple environments
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  • Feature Flag Management: It's like magic. With a flip of a switch, you can manage feature rollouts to visitors or accounts across the web and mobile applications!
  • Segmentation: Create a segment of visitors or accounts and then use that to target a feature flag rule. Really easy to use and saves so much time.
  • Ease of Use: Seamless copy/paste functionality, really clear status indicators so you can find what is on and for whom.
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Cons
  • Search users based on traits
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  • It would be nice to see a feature flag's settings against all environments at once.
  • It would be to have a "array" type flag for related but different settings (eg, enableA and enableB could be enable: [a, b]).
  • It would be nice have customizable columns on the Users page (eg, if I want to inject a new meta data).
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Likelihood to Renew
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It fits out business case
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Usability
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It's very easy to create new feature flags and set them properly. It is more difficult to get LaunchDarkly integrated within a distributed system so that flags can be used. Especially on stateless servers where gating features by user is not easy. Overall though, it is very easy to get started and I like how simple it is to use.
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Reliability and Availability
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No issue with availability at all
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Performance
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From what I have seen, LaunchDarkly integrates well with your code and also services you might have in your tech ecosystem. We use Jenkins for automation and we were able to use it to build pipelines to automate the control of LaunchDarkly toggles in our code.
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Support Rating
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The overall support is very responsive
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Implementation Rating
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Yes I do.
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Alternatives Considered
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Rollout is another dedicated feature flag tool that can be used to manage features. LaunchDarkley offers all the features of an enterprise level tool, unlike Rollout, reserves the security features for the Enterprise plan. Out of box integrations are limited but they do have a well documented REST API.
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Scalability
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The platform didn't go down since we implemented it
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Return on Investment
  • We can be very flexible to client needs by quickly deploying new features behind flags.
  • We can support the sales dept by deploying demo features without risk to stability.
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  • Improved developer experience with some teams moving to Trunk-based Development.
  • Increased deployment frequency due to smaller code releases.
  • Validation of the technical and business value of work is achieved more quickly through smaller pieces of work and through experimenting with a small group of users before a feature gets to 100% of customers.
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ScreenShots

LaunchDarkly Screenshots

Screenshot of regression detection and automated incident response at the feature level. This connects critical metrics to the release process so that every change is monitored - even the smallest releases, where issues would previously have been obscured by noise in the wider system metrics.Screenshot of where track the progression of a feature flag across a series of phases, where each phase consists of one or more environments.Screenshot of how to target groups of contexts individually or by attribute. Contexts are people, services, machines, or other resources that encounter feature flags in a product.Screenshot of where to design experiments that measure business-critical user flows and provide results specific to those product funnels, and measure multi-step user journeys. This is used to determine whether conversions are succeeding, with all metrics visible in one place.