ConfigCat vs. Unleash

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ConfigCat
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
ConfigCat allows the user to launch new features and change software configuration without (re)deploying code. ConfigCat SDKs enable easy integration with any web, mobile or backend applications. The ConfigCat website enables non-developers too to switch ON/OFF application features or change software configuration. This way the user can decouple feature launches and configuration from code deployment.
$0
per month
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
ConfigCatUnleash
Editions & Modules
Free
$0.00
per month
Professional
$49.00
per month
Unlimited
$199.00
per month
Dedicated on-premise infra
$1499.00
per month
Dedicated hosted infra
$1499.00
per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ConfigCatUnleash
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsFair pricing policy: All features available in all plans, even in Free. Simple and predictable prices. No hidden fees. We don't charge for team size. We don't charge for MAUs (monthly active users). Our plans only differ in limitations.Unleash offers 3 pricing editions: □Open Source - it's a free and basic feature management solution hosted by the user. □Pro - 80$/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
ConfigCatUnleash
Considered Both Products
ConfigCat
Chose ConfigCat
CC offers a little bit more valuable features to us as LD but to a considerably lower price. CC support is also far superior in both quality and speed. LD has more features we don't need but still would havd to pay for. CC has a very suitable growth model for us.
Chose ConfigCat
At iBinder we searched for and vetted several suppliers of a feature toggle service to handle feature toggling in our production environment. In addition to our functional requirements, it was crucial for us to find a partner that could deliver an EU-compliant service. We …
Chose ConfigCat
They lacked the ability to store the feature flags locally, to use older versions of the. NET Framework, overly complicated, or too expensive.
Chose ConfigCat
ConfigCat isn't 'battleship' class with tons of bells of whistles when compared to Optimizely or LaunchDarkly. Having said that, it does what we needed it to do and had a roadmap to add any functionality that we have felt as a shortcoming. ConfigCat is also a fraction of the …
Chose ConfigCat
The pricing model was a lot better for our usage model - we didn't need to worry about paying for each individual user.
Chose ConfigCat
Feature parity was essentially the same, but ConfigCat has a far better licensing model.
Unleash

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User Ratings
ConfigCatUnleash
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
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10.0
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Likelihood to Renew
9.1
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Support Rating
9.1
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User Testimonials
ConfigCatUnleash
Likelihood to Recommend
If you are looking for an experimentation/feature flag style tool that is quick to adopt and provides enough functionality for light/medium use cases, then this is the tool for you. Additionally, they are growing and expanding their functionality and feature set so they can grow alongside you and your needs. The publicly accessible roadmap is also a great benefit to see where time is being spent on which feature next.
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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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Pros
  • Fast and easy feature toggling that gets developers developing
  • World class support in both speed and quality for how to best use the service
  • Great ear for customer needs and fast paced development
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Cons
  • Make it easier to pull all configs in a snapshot with a timeout so apps can use this as a precursor to allowing the user access.
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Likelihood to Renew
ConfigCat has done the job, and has been great to work with.
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Usability
Just everything from the website to locating what i need (docs) specific to my platforms is super easy. Not to mention the support articles answering previous questions
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Support Rating
They have a community Slack channel that is open to anyone. They always seem to have people in there, even over the weekends and are always happy to answer any questions you have,
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Alternatives Considered
At iBinder we searched for and vetted several suppliers of a feature toggle service to handle feature toggling in our production environment. In addition to our functional requirements, it was crucial for us to find a partner that could deliver an EU-compliant service. We finally decided to sign a service agreement with ConfigCat. This has been a real success story for us – in addition to being compliant, ConfigCat delivers an amazing, flexible, and reliable service. They continue to impress by also being very transparent and having a fantastic support and they are very solution oriented and accommodating when it comes to our feature requests etc. We have now used ConfigCat for approximately 2 years and we give our warmest recommendations to anyone who needs a stable, reliable and EU-compliant feature toggle service.
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Return on Investment
  • Allowed us to migrate seamlessly from a major customer communication system to another, reducing end-user friction and production bugs by being able to turn features off if they didn't work as intended.
  • We went from zero experimentation to running 10-20 experiments concurrently across systems. Engineering teams are thinking in an experimentation mindset.
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ScreenShots

ConfigCat Screenshots

Screenshot of Feature flags for teams.Screenshot of NIce and simple user interface to manage your feature flags.Screenshot of NIce and simple user interface to manage your feature flags.Screenshot of Comprehensive technical documentation.

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.