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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    LaunchDarkly

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/ALaunchDarkly 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

    Pricing
    LaunchDarkly
    Editions & Modules
    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
    LaunchDarkly
    Free Trial
    Yes
    Free/Freemium Version
    No
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    Yes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptional
    Additional DetailsDiscount available on the Foundation plan for annual pricing.
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    Community Pulse
    LaunchDarkly
    Considered Both Products
    LaunchDarkly
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    Incentivized
    Chose LaunchDarkly
    I have not used any other similar products
    Incentivized
    Chose LaunchDarkly
    We were considering changing to Flagsmith as they presented us with a way cheaper quote than LaunchDarkly. We ended up not doing so as the cost of migrating would be quite high.
    Incentivized
    Chose LaunchDarkly
    LaunchDarkly stood out to us because it put control of the application within the hands of our engineers. We didn't want to allow business users to manipulate the production site via a third-party tool. Instead, our focus was on delivering faster as an engineering team.
    Incentivized
    Chose LaunchDarkly
    None
    Incentivized
    Chose LaunchDarkly
    LaunchDarkly has been much more reliable and easy to use than “home grown” tools that we used in the past.
    Incentivized
    Chose LaunchDarkly
    None. LaunchDarkly was our only choice.
    Incentivized
    Chose LaunchDarkly
    All the above products more or less suffice the requirement. But in terms of usage as a common integrated platform , the experience [is] quite great. Further performance and product support are also quite good.
    Incentivized
    Chose LaunchDarkly
    I have not used any other software.
    Incentivized
    Chose LaunchDarkly
    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 …
    Incentivized
    Chose LaunchDarkly
    Previously we had a homegrown solution to manage our feature flags. It was extremely old, not maintained, difficult to implement for the engineer and had limited applicability as it could only be used in back-end systems as well as having no auditing for changes made by users.
    La…
    Incentivized
    Chose LaunchDarkly
    We didn't end up trying any other alternatives as LaunchDarkly has a very good reputation for being one of the best feature flag services to use and was what my company went with right from the get go.
    Incentivized
    Chose LaunchDarkly
    Split.io was the next best choice, but far too expensive.
    Incentivized
    Chose LaunchDarkly
    We decided to use LaunchDarkly because they are the market leader. Split was fairly new and immatured platform at the time.
    Incentivized
    Chose LaunchDarkly
    Selected LaunchDarkly due to its manages feature flags server-side applications, control who has access to new features.
    Incentivized
    Chose LaunchDarkly
    We needed a highly supported solution that we could easily make available for all of our teams. LaunchDarkly came out the best in all of our requirements.
    Incentivized
    Chose LaunchDarkly
    LaunchDarkly is the industry leader here and I did not consider any other service.
    Incentivized
    Chose LaunchDarkly
    None
    Incentivized
    Chose LaunchDarkly
    We built our own in-house solution, and that was what I compared it to. LaunchDarkly was faster, easier, and had a better UI than our internal tool.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
    25 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    20 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    27 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    17 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    20 Answers
    User Ratings
    LaunchDarkly
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (28 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.4
    (26 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    8.1
    (26 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    LaunchDarkly
    Likelihood to Recommend
    LaunchDarkly
    If a new feature should be added but unsure of how it will actually work or how users will accept the new enhancement or change, this tool allows you test and measure initial results. This saves so much time and energy knowing the results before it is deployed and might have low user adoption or acceptance.
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    Pros
    LaunchDarkly
    • A/B or Multi Variant Testing as a methodology to gather insight from customer usage. Experimentation as a feature within LaunchDarkly offers information around the success of one variant over another and whether the experiment has reached statistical significance.
    • Being able to decouple deployment of code from the release of a feature is hugely valuable.
    • Development teams are empowered to manage features within their production applications for reliability or testing purposes.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    LaunchDarkly
    • Limited number of users on cheaper plans that is limiting our ability to audit log who is making changes.
    • Some of our engineers are confused between flags and segments and have set up items incorrectly.
    • Better documented support for React with Typescript.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    LaunchDarkly
    It fits out business case
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    LaunchDarkly
    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
    LaunchDarkly
    No issue with availability at all
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    Performance
    LaunchDarkly
    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
    LaunchDarkly
    The overall support is very responsive
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    Implementation Rating
    LaunchDarkly
    Yes I do.
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    Alternatives Considered
    LaunchDarkly
    LaunchDarkly stood out to us because it put control of the application within the hands of our engineers. We didn't want to allow business users to manipulate the production site via a third-party tool. Instead, our focus was on delivering faster as an engineering team.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    LaunchDarkly
    The platform didn't go down since we implemented it
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    Return on Investment
    LaunchDarkly
    • 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.