LaunchDarkly vs Statsig
SEPT 2026 auditA comparison of LaunchDarkly and Statsig built from values read directly from each provider's own documentation, with the source recorded against every figure.
The short answer
Choose LaunchDarkly if…
A large team shipping to a small audience. Seats are explicitly unmetered — "no per-seat pricing", in its own words — so inviting everyone costs nothing, and the bill tracks the users you serve at $8.33 per thousand MAU. The free plan is $0 forever with unlimited seats and no card.
Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved
Choose Statsig if…
Wanting flags and experimentation on one bill without paying to read a flag. Flag and config checks are unlimited on every tier including free, and the free plan carries 2 million analytics events and 50,000 session replays — the most generous starting allowance here by a wide margin.
Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved
Consider something else if…
- LaunchDarkly: Your audience is large relative to your team. MAU is the meter, so growth in users is growth in the bill, and the free plan's 1,000 client-side MAU is the tightest audience allowance of the four. There is also no published plan floor — the paid tier is usage-shaped and Enterprise is quote-only.
- Statsig: You want flags and nothing else. The meter is analytics events, so you are buying an experimentation and product-analytics platform whose flags happen to be free; a team that only needs toggles is paying $150 a month at Pro for a surface it will not use.
3 sourced criteria separate them — see where, with sources, below.
Pick the criteria you care about. The chart counts how many of them lean toward each provider — the same read as scanning the bars below, just totalled for the ones you chose.
LaunchDarkly 0
Statsig 0
At a glance.
| Criterion | LaunchDarkly | Statsig |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Kind of free offer | Free tier | Free tier |
| What the free plan includes | Unlimited flags and unlimited seats, with 1,000 client-side MAU and 5 service connections a month, plus 100,000 experimentation MAU, 5,000 session replays and 5,000 errors. | 2 million events a month, unlimited flag and config checks, 50,000 session replays and unlimited seats — the most generous free plan of the four by a wide margin. |
| Credit card to start | No | No |
| Pricing model | Usage, explicitly not seats — the page says so in those words. $8.33 per 1,000 client-side monthly active users, where a unique user or device is one MAU, plus a charge per service connection, where one server-side SDK attached to one environment for a month is one connection. | Analytics events, with flag and config checks excluded from the meter entirely — the plan table says "unlimited flag & config checks" on every tier. Pro includes 5 million events and charges $0.05 per further thousand. |
| Observability | ||
| Retention window | 30 days for AgentControl run and eval data on the free plan. | 1-year analytics retention on the free plan; unlimited on Pro. |
Where they differ.
What the free plan includes
- LaunchDarkly
- Unlimited flags and unlimited seats, with 1,000 client-side MAU and 5 service connections a month, plus 100,000 experimentation MAU, 5,000 session replays and 5,000 errors.
- Statsig
- 2 million events a month, unlimited flag and config checks, 50,000 session replays and unlimited seats — the most generous free plan of the four by a wide margin.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- LaunchDarkly Pricing ↗
“unlimited feature flags 30 idiomatic sdks 13 client-side, 13 server-side, and 4 edge sdks. 5 service connections and 1k client-side mau /mo”
Read 2026-09-16 · official pricing
- Statsig Pricing ↗
“2m events per month unlimited flag & config checks 50,000 session replays per month”
Read 2026-09-16 · official pricing
Pricing model
- LaunchDarkly
- Usage, explicitly not seats — the page says so in those words. $8.33 per 1,000 client-side monthly active users, where a unique user or device is one MAU, plus a charge per service connection, where one server-side SDK attached to one environment for a month is one connection.
- Statsig
- Analytics events, with flag and config checks excluded from the meter entirely — the plan table says "unlimited flag & config checks" on every tier. Pro includes 5 million events and charges $0.05 per further thousand.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- LaunchDarkly Pricing ↗
“unlimited seats no per-seat pricing. invite your whole team; pricing is based on usage. [...] $8.33 per 1k client-side mau / mo each unique client-side user or device counts as one monthly active user.”
Read 2026-09-16 · official pricing
- Statsig Pricing ↗
“$150 /mo 5m events included, then $0.05 per 1k events unlimited flag & config checks”
Read 2026-09-16 · official pricing
Retention window
- LaunchDarkly
- 30 days for AgentControl run and eval data on the free plan.
- Statsig
- 1-year analytics retention on the free plan; unlimited on Pro.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- LaunchDarkly Pricing ↗
“30 days data retention how long agentcontrol run and eval data stays available.”
Read 2026-09-16 · official pricing
- Statsig Pricing ↗
“1-year analytics retention session replays unlimited seats”
Read 2026-09-16 · official pricing
When these numbers change, hear about it. Sources are re-checked monthly; a repricing goes out as a short note.
Documented by only one.
These criteria are published by one provider and not the other. An absence here means we have not found a source, not that the feature is missing.
Questions this comparison answers.
Should I choose LaunchDarkly or Statsig?
Pick LaunchDarkly if A large team shipping to a small audience. Seats are explicitly unmetered — "no per-seat pricing", in its own words — so inviting everyone costs nothing, and the bill tracks the users you serve at $8.33 per thousand MAU. The free plan is $0 forever with unlimited seats and no card.
Pick Statsig if Wanting flags and experimentation on one bill without paying to read a flag. Flag and config checks are unlimited on every tier including free, and the free plan carries 2 million analytics events and 50,000 session replays — the most generous starting allowance here by a wide margin.