Feature flags · Comparison
ConfigCat vs Unleash
2 products compared side by side: what you pay for with each one first, then the five access facts, entry prices, recorded plan limits and the bottom line of each review. The evidence note under the table says how each product was checked.
Side by side
| Metric | ConfigCat | Unleash |
|---|---|---|
| What you're paying for | Worth the priceFeature flags on flat plans with unlimited seats and users, and SAML SSO and SCIM even on the free plan. | Compliance includedEnterprise flag governance on a self-serve plan: SSO, audit logs, change approvals and EU data residency for $75 per seat, with users never billed. |
| Overall score | 6.0Best | 4.0 |
| Free option | Free plan | 14-day free trial |
| Card to start | No card needed | No card needed |
| Getting access | Self-serve | Self-serve |
| Starter priceCheapest paid plan | $110/mo | $75/seat/mo |
| Pricing model | Tiered | Per seat |
| Pricing page | Public prices | Public prices |
| Billing units | Flat plans sized by config JSON downloads and network traffic | Seats; 53M API requests/mo included on cloud |
| Free plan | 10 flags, 2 environments, 5M downloads/mo, unlimited seats | No hosted free plan (14-day trial); Open Source is free to self-host |
| Reference scenario (50,000 MAU) | $110 on Pro, billed annually, if downloads stay near 15M | $750 on Pay-As-You-Go (10 seats), computed |
| A/B testing | Not listed; flag data sent to analytics tools | Flag variants; results analysed in your analytics tool |
| SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 | ISO 27001:2022 | SOC 2 Type II; ISO 27001 control mapping only |
| HIPAA BAA | Not stated | Not stated |
| EU data region | Main infrastructure in the EU; EU-only CDN option | US or EU data residency on every plan |
| SAML SSO | Every plan, incl. Free | Pay-As-You-Go and Enterprise |
| Audit log | 7 days on Free, 35 days on Pro | Pay-As-You-Go and Enterprise, up to 2 years |
| Seats | Unlimited, no per-seat charge | $75 per seat per month |
| Bottom line | From its public pages, ConfigCat is the most focused flag service here, with the most team controls on its free plan. Its score reflects no built-in experimentation and a shorter compliance list. | From its public pages, Unleash puts enterprise governance on a self-serve plan and never bills for traffic. Its score reflects per-seat pricing with no hosted free plan and no built-in experiment analysis. |
Evidence: ConfigCat: facts checked 2026-10-15 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run; Unleash: facts checked 2026-10-15 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run. Prices in USD as listed, excluding tax. "–" means not recorded.
Entry price
Baseline: each product's cheapest paid plan, per month. Included usage differs, so read the line under each price.
- ConfigCatPro$110/moBilled annually ($120 monthly); 100 flags, 3 environments, 25M downloads and 100 GB/mo
- 35-day audit log
- 99.9% uptime SLA
- Add-on: +25M downloads and +100 GB for $95/mo
- Standard support
- UnleashLowest pricePay-As-You-Go$75/seat/moBilled monthly by credit card, no contract; cloud (1-seat minimum) or self-hosted (5-seat minimum)
- Full Unleash Enterprise feature set
- 53M API requests/mo on cloud, then $5 per million
- SAML or OIDC SSO, RBAC, audit logs, change requests
- 14-day trial, no credit card
Prices as listed on each pricing page, in USD per month, excluding tax. Observed: ConfigCat 2026-10-15, Unleash 2026-10-15.
Which one fits
- If you need to start today without a sales call
- ConfigCatSelf-serve sign-up, no card needed; the highest score of the 2 self-serve products here (6.0/10).
- If you want to try it without entering a card
- ConfigCatFree plan, no card needed; scored 6.0/10.
- Lowest starter price
- Unleash$75/seat/mo for the Pay-As-You-Go plan.
- Highest overall score
- ConfigCat6.0/10 (Good). The review shows the score breakdown and the run behind it.
Picked by fixed rules from the table above, not by hand. How we score
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