LaunchDarkly vs. Statsig

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
LaunchDarkly
Score 7.6 out of 10
N/A
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
Statsig
Score 0.0 out of 10
N/A
Statsig is a feature management with feature flags, pulse, holdouts, from the company of the same name in Bellevue.N/A
Pricing
LaunchDarklyStatsig
Editions & Modules
Foundation
$12
per month per Service Connection per month, or $10 per 1k client-side MAU per mo
Enterprise
Custom
Guardian
Custom
Enterprise
Custom
annual pricing
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
LaunchDarklyStatsig
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDiscount available on the Foundation plan for annual pricing.
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Community Pulse
LaunchDarklyStatsig
Considered Both Products
LaunchDarkly
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.
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.
Chose LaunchDarkly
LaunchDarkly has been much more reliable and easy to use than “home grown” tools that we used in the past.
Chose LaunchDarkly
None. LaunchDarkly was our only choice.
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.
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 …
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…
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.
Chose LaunchDarkly
We decided to use LaunchDarkly because they are the market leader. Split was fairly new and immatured platform at the time.
Chose LaunchDarkly
Selected LaunchDarkly due to its manages feature flags server-side applications, control who has access to new features.
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.
Chose LaunchDarkly
LaunchDarkly is the industry leader here and I did not consider any other service.
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.
Statsig
Chose Statsig
Statsig is easier to use and has more tools for analysis, though we were working with the open source version of Flagsmith, merely to handle feature flags, and using Heap and homegrown tools for manual analysis, so the Cloud version may be different
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User Ratings
LaunchDarklyStatsig
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
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Likelihood to Renew
7.0
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Usability
7.4
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Availability
10.0
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Performance
8.1
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Support Rating
10.0
(0 ratings)
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Implementation Rating
9.0
(0 ratings)
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Configurability
8.0
(0 ratings)
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Ease of integration
8.0
(0 ratings)
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Product Scalability
10.0
(0 ratings)
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Vendor post-sale
8.0
(0 ratings)
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Vendor pre-sale
10.0
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User Testimonials
LaunchDarklyStatsig
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Statsig is well suited for running straightforward a/b tests on frontend deployments. We've actually used it to log events on our backend and used the HTTP API to integrate with tools like Hubspot to evaluate email campaigns
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Pros
  • 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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  • Clear experimentation insights and details
  • Experimentation health and performance ratings
  • Statistical analysis of in flight work
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Cons
  • 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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  • Complex data science focussed UI
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Likelihood to Renew
It fits out business case
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Usability
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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For the most part it is pretty easy to use. - There are some quirks with the javascript SDK (getExperiment().getValue?). - The Events vs. Metrics design pattern is complex, and creating new Metrics from Events can be frustrating if you are trying to use event metadata - It's really frustrating not to be able to link Static IDs (before a user signs up) to User IDs, in order to follow users all the way through onboarding, or to log events that occur for signed in users when you are exposing the experiment to users before they've signed up
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Reliability and Availability
No issue with availability at all
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Performance
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
The overall support is very responsive
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Implementation Rating
Yes I do.
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Alternatives Considered
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
The platform didn't go down since we implemented it
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Return on Investment
  • 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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  • We uncovered several feature releases that were causing a negative impact on our product activation rate by running exclusion experiments
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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.