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LaunchDarkly vs. Unleash

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
Unleash
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Unleash is an open-source feature management platform. It's built for high scale and supports all the major programming languages. Unleash lets users turn new features on/off in production with no need for redeployment. A software development best practice for releasing and validating new features. Feature management platform Deployable on-prem, in private cloud, or hosted by the vendor Segments the rollout on application attributes or user…N/A
Pricing
LaunchDarklyUnleash
Editions & Modules
Foundation
$12
per month per Service Connection per month, or $10 per 1k client-side MAU per mo
Enterprise
Custom
Guardian
Custom
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
LaunchDarklyUnleash
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDiscount available on the Foundation plan for annual pricing.Unleash offers 3 pricing editions: □Open Source - it's a free and basic feature management solution hosted by the user. □Pro - 80$/month includes 5 team members with access to the full managed version □Enterprise - Includes SSO, unlimited team members, managed by us or Self-hosted. No credit card is required and the first 14 days are free. Contact sales.
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Community Pulse
LaunchDarklyUnleash
Considered Both Products
LaunchDarkly
Verified User
Anonymous
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.
Daniel Yefet | TrustRadius Reviewer
Daniel Yefet
Lead Developer
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.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose LaunchDarkly
LaunchDarkly has been much more reliable and easy to use than “home grown” tools that we used in the past.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose LaunchDarkly
None. LaunchDarkly was our only choice.
Verified User
Anonymous
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.
DM
David McCallister
AA Info Systems Manager
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 …
Verified User
Anonymous
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…
Verified User
Anonymous
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.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose LaunchDarkly
We decided to use LaunchDarkly because they are the market leader. Split was fairly new and immatured platform at the time.
Anderson Carvalho | TrustRadius Reviewer
Anderson Carvalho
Lead Site Reliability Engineer
Chose LaunchDarkly
Selected LaunchDarkly due to its manages feature flags server-side applications, control who has access to new features.
Verified User
Anonymous
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.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose LaunchDarkly
LaunchDarkly is the industry leader here and I did not consider any other service.
SM
steven mandzik
Senior Product Manager
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.
Unleash

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User Ratings
LaunchDarklyUnleash
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
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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
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Implementation Rating
9.0
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-
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Configurability
8.0
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Ease of integration
8.0
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Product Scalability
10.0
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Vendor post-sale
8.0
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Vendor pre-sale
10.0
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User Testimonials
LaunchDarklyUnleash
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.
Verified User
Anonymous
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If you are writing apis and you make a logic change for eg change format of a number from showing no decimal points to 2 decimal points, and screen of your older version of ui app does not have enough space on screen which makes the ux break, instead of releasing a new version of the api you can toggle off the feature for app versions lower than the one being targetted so that api keeps responding with zero decimal points for older app and with decimal points for the newer version of the app
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Anonymous
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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.
JG
Joe Gonwa
Director of Product Management
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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).
Verified User
Anonymous
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Likelihood to Renew
It fits out business case
Anderson Carvalho | TrustRadius Reviewer
Anderson Carvalho
Lead Site Reliability Engineer
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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.
Michael Gallouedec | TrustRadius Reviewer
Michael Gallouedec
Senior Software Engineer
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Reliability and Availability
No issue with availability at all
Anderson Carvalho | TrustRadius Reviewer
Anderson Carvalho
Lead Site Reliability Engineer
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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.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Support Rating
The overall support is very responsive
Anderson Carvalho | TrustRadius Reviewer
Anderson Carvalho
Lead Site Reliability Engineer
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Implementation Rating
Yes I do.
Anderson Carvalho | TrustRadius Reviewer
Anderson Carvalho
Lead Site Reliability Engineer
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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.
DM
David McCallister
AA Info Systems Manager
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Scalability
The platform didn't go down since we implemented it
Anderson Carvalho | TrustRadius Reviewer
Anderson Carvalho
Lead Site Reliability Engineer
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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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Anonymous
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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.

Unleash Screenshots

Screenshot of Overview of all feature togglesScreenshot of The Unleash architecture is designed with performance, resilience, privacy, and extensibility in mind. The Unleash Client SDK polls the Unleash API at regular intervals and caches all feature toggles locally. The interval is configurable from the client-side.Screenshot of Overview of all feature toggles across all environmentsScreenshot of The enhanced list of users helps track account activity. It can display and sort by when an account is last logged in, to find inactive accounts.Screenshot of Custom context fields extend the Unleash Context with more data that is applicable to any situation. Each context field definition consists of a name and an optional description. Additionally, a set of legal values can be defined, or whether or not the context field can be used in custom stickiness calculations can be selected, for the gradual rollout strategy and for feature toggle variants.Screenshot of API tokens can be used to connect to the Unleash server API.