How Much Does
LaunchDarkly Cost in 2026?
LaunchDarkly is the category-leading feature flag platform with the most polished UI, deepest SDK support (30 idiomatic SDKs), and strongest experimentation capabilities. Foundation pricing at $12/service connection + $10/1K client-side MAU scales with both team and traffic.
Prices in USD, verified from the United States. Regional pricing may vary.
Plans & Pricing
Developer
- seats Unlimited
- flags Unlimited
- sdks 30
- sessionReplays 5K/mo
- logs 10M/mo
- experiments true
- scope A/B tests + experiments included free
Foundation
- seats Unlimited
- perServiceConnection 12
- perThousandClientMAU 10
- scope Unlimited projects + user/account/device targeting + SSO + scalable observability
Enterprise
- scope Advanced targeting + release automation + workflows + SAML/SCIM + custom roles — custom pricing
Guardian
- scope + Release Monitoring + Guardrail Metrics + Auto-Pause/Rollback + Exposure Insights — custom pricing
From the StackScored blog
Features
Our Verdict
LaunchDarkly is the Ferrari of feature flagging — genuine polish, comprehensive features, and pricing that reflects both. The Developer free tier is remarkably generous: unlimited flags, unlimited seats, unlimited projects, PLUS A/B testing and experimentation. For solo devs or small teams this is often enough indefinitely. The Foundation tier's pricing model — $12 per 'service connection' (roughly: each distinct service/project that calls the SDK) plus $10 per 1K client-side MAU — is honest about what drives LaunchDarkly's infrastructure cost but creates surprising bills at scale. A consumer mobile app with 500K MAU pays $5,000/mo just for MAU; add service connections and Enterprise features and the bill quickly exceeds $10-20K/mo. This is appropriate for enterprises (they pay for the scale and governance) but pushes startups toward ConfigCat or Statsig below some revenue threshold. The newly-introduced Guardian tier (release monitoring + guardrail metrics + auto-rollback) positions LaunchDarkly as a release-orchestration platform, not just flagging — a smart response to the Harness FME DevOps-suite play. Where it wins: UI polish, SDK breadth, experimentation quality, unlimited-seats-always (never penalizes team growth), Guardian's auto-rollback is category-first. Where it loses: MAU-based pricing surprises consumer apps, Enterprise features (SAML, custom roles) gated high, no self-hosted option.
Pros
- Most polished UI and UX in the category — onboarding is best-in-class
- Unlimited seats on every plan, including free — never penalizes team growth
- Developer tier is genuinely useful (unlimited flags + experiments) — can serve small teams indefinitely
- 30 SDKs covering every major language, mobile platform, edge runtime
- Guardian tier's auto-rollback on metric regression is category-leading release safety
Cons
- Client-side MAU pricing compounds fast for consumer products (500K MAU = $5K/mo before anything else)
- Service-connection metering is hard to estimate before you're live
- Enterprise features (SAML, SCIM, custom roles) gated to high tiers
- No self-hosted option — cloud-only
- Sticker shock at renewal — Foundation→Enterprise jumps are steep
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Frequently Asked Questions
- Does LaunchDarkly offer a free trial?
- Yes, LaunchDarkly offers a free trial. No credit card is typically required to start.
- Does LaunchDarkly have a free plan?
- Yes, LaunchDarkly offers a free plan. See the feature comparison above for what's included and the limits.