# Statsig vs Unleash

Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/compare/statsig-vs-unleash/

Every value below is read from Statsig's and Unleash's own documentation. See https://inetgeek.com/methodology/ for how.

## At a glance

| Criterion | Statsig | Unleash |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free tier | Yes | No |
| Kind of free offer | Free tier | Free trial |
| Credit card to start | No | No |
| Entry paid plan | $150 a month for Pro, which includes 5 million events before the $0.05 per 1,000 overage starts. | $75 per seat per month on pay-as-you-go. With no free plan behind it, a three-person team starts at $225 a month. |
| Pricing model | 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. | Per seat, $75 a month each — the opposite axis to every other member here. Client-side MAU and service connections are unlimited on every plan, so audience size and traffic cost nothing; the bill is a function of how many people touch the tool. |
| Retention window | 1-year analytics retention on the free plan; unlimited on Pro. | 90 days of feature flag metrics on both published plans. |

## Where they differ

### Free tier

- Statsig: Yes ([source](https://www.statsig.com/pricing))
- Unleash: No ([source](https://www.getunleash.io/pricing))

### Kind of free offer

- Statsig: Free tier ([source](https://www.statsig.com/pricing))
- Unleash: Free trial ([source](https://www.getunleash.io/pricing))

### Entry paid plan

- Statsig: $150 a month for Pro, which includes 5 million events before the $0.05 per 1,000 overage starts. ([source](https://www.statsig.com/pricing))
- Unleash: $75 per seat per month on pay-as-you-go. With no free plan behind it, a three-person team starts at $225 a month. ([source](https://www.getunleash.io/pricing))

### Pricing model

- 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. ([source](https://www.statsig.com/pricing))
- Unleash: Per seat, $75 a month each — the opposite axis to every other member here. Client-side MAU and service connections are unlimited on every plan, so audience size and traffic cost nothing; the bill is a function of how many people touch the tool. ([source](https://www.getunleash.io/pricing))

### Retention window

- Statsig: 1-year analytics retention on the free plan; unlimited on Pro. ([source](https://www.statsig.com/pricing))
- Unleash: 90 days of feature flag metrics on both published plans. ([source](https://www.getunleash.io/pricing))

## Which should you choose?

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.

Pick Unleash if A small team serving a large audience, and wanting the option to run it yourself. Client-side MAU and service connections are unlimited on every plan, so neither traffic nor audience moves the price — only headcount does, at $75 a seat.

Consider something else: 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.

Consider something else: Unleash — The team is bigger than the audience, or you want to try before paying. There is no free plan at all, only a 14-day trial, so three people start at $225 a month before a single flag is read. API traffic is still capped at 53 million requests, then $5 per million.

## Documented by only one

- What the free plan includes: 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.
- Events included: Statsig: 2 million a month free, 5 million on Pro. Flag and config checks do not count against either — only analytics events do.
- Self-hostable: Unleash: Supported
- Rate limits: Unleash: 53 million API requests a month on the cloud plan, then $5 per million — a ceiling the per-seat price does not remove.
- Users included: Unleash: Unlimited client-side monthly active users on every plan, alongside unlimited service connections. The audience is free; the seats are not.

## Questions this comparison answers

**Entry paid plan: Statsig or Unleash?**

Statsig: $150 a month for Pro, which includes 5 million events before the $0.05 per 1,000 overage starts.
Unleash: $75 per seat per month on pay-as-you-go. With no free plan behind it, a three-person team starts at $225 a month.

**Free tier: Statsig or Unleash?**

Statsig: Yes
Unleash: No

**Should I choose Statsig or Unleash?**

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.
Pick Unleash if A small team serving a large audience, and wanting the option to run it yourself. Client-side MAU and service connections are unlimited on every plan, so neither traffic nor audience moves the price — only headcount does, at $75 a seat.