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LaunchDarkly

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
LaunchDarkly
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
LaunchDarkly provides a feature management platform that enables DevOps and Product teams to use feature flags at scale. This allows for greater collaboration among team members, and increased usability testing before full-scale feature deployment.
$12
per month
Pricing
LaunchDarkly
Editions & Modules
Foundation
$12
per month per Service Connection per month, or $10 per 1k client-side MAU per mo
Enterprise
Custom
Guardian
Custom
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
LaunchDarkly
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptional
Additional DetailsDiscount available on the Foundation plan for annual pricing.
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Community Pulse
LaunchDarkly
Considered Both Products
LaunchDarkly
Verified User
Team Lead
Chose LaunchDarkly
We were considering changing to Flagsmith as they presented us with a way cheaper quote than LaunchDarkly. We ended up not doing so as the cost of migrating would be quite high.
Daniel Yefet | TrustRadius Reviewer
Daniel Yefet
Lead Developer
Chose LaunchDarkly
LaunchDarkly stood out to us because it put control of the application within the hands of our engineers. We didn't want to allow business users to manipulate the production site via a third-party tool. Instead, our focus was on delivering faster as an engineering team.
Verified User
Manager
Chose LaunchDarkly
LaunchDarkly has been much more reliable and easy to use than “home grown” tools that we used in the past.
Verified User
Project Manager
Chose LaunchDarkly
None. LaunchDarkly was our only choice.
Verified User
Manager
Chose LaunchDarkly
All the above products more or less suffice the requirement. But in terms of usage as a common integrated platform , the experience [is] quite great. Further performance and product support are also quite good.
DM
David McCallister
AA Info Systems Manager
Chose LaunchDarkly
Rollout is another dedicated feature flag tool that can be used to manage features. LaunchDarkley offers all the features of an enterprise level tool, unlike Rollout, reserves the security features for the Enterprise plan. Out of box integrations are limited but they do have a …
Verified User
Manager
Chose LaunchDarkly
Previously we had a homegrown solution to manage our feature flags. It was extremely old, not maintained, difficult to implement for the engineer and had limited applicability as it could only be used in back-end systems as well as having no auditing for changes made by users.
La…
Verified User
Team Lead
Chose LaunchDarkly
We didn't end up trying any other alternatives as LaunchDarkly has a very good reputation for being one of the best feature flag services to use and was what my company went with right from the get go.
Verified User
Manager
Chose LaunchDarkly
We decided to use LaunchDarkly because they are the market leader. Split was fairly new and immatured platform at the time.
Anderson Carvalho | TrustRadius Reviewer
Anderson Carvalho
Lead Site Reliability Engineer
Chose LaunchDarkly
Selected LaunchDarkly due to its manages feature flags server-side applications, control who has access to new features.
Verified User
Team Lead
Chose LaunchDarkly
We needed a highly supported solution that we could easily make available for all of our teams. LaunchDarkly came out the best in all of our requirements.
Verified User
Team Lead
Chose LaunchDarkly
LaunchDarkly is the industry leader here and I did not consider any other service.
SM
steven mandzik
Senior Product Manager
Chose LaunchDarkly
We built our own in-house solution, and that was what I compared it to. LaunchDarkly was faster, easier, and had a better UI than our internal tool.
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User Ratings
LaunchDarkly
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(28 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
7.4
(26 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
8.1
(26 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
Configurability
8.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
10.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
LaunchDarkly
Likelihood to Recommend
LaunchDarkly
If a new feature should be added but unsure of how it will actually work or how users will accept the new enhancement or change, this tool allows you test and measure initial results. This saves so much time and energy knowing the results before it is deployed and might have low user adoption or acceptance.
DM
David McCallister
AA Info Systems Manager
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Pros
LaunchDarkly
  • A/B or Multi Variant Testing as a methodology to gather insight from customer usage. Experimentation as a feature within LaunchDarkly offers information around the success of one variant over another and whether the experiment has reached statistical significance.
  • Being able to decouple deployment of code from the release of a feature is hugely valuable.
  • Development teams are empowered to manage features within their production applications for reliability or testing purposes.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Cons
LaunchDarkly
  • Limited number of users on cheaper plans that is limiting our ability to audit log who is making changes.
  • Some of our engineers are confused between flags and segments and have set up items incorrectly.
  • Better documented support for React with Typescript.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Likelihood to Renew
LaunchDarkly
It fits out business case
Anderson Carvalho | TrustRadius Reviewer
Anderson Carvalho
Lead Site Reliability Engineer
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Usability
LaunchDarkly
It's very easy to create new feature flags and set them properly. It is more difficult to get LaunchDarkly integrated within a distributed system so that flags can be used. Especially on stateless servers where gating features by user is not easy. Overall though, it is very easy to get started and I like how simple it is to use.
Michael Gallouedec | TrustRadius Reviewer
Michael Gallouedec
Senior Software Engineer
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Reliability and Availability
LaunchDarkly
No issue with availability at all
Anderson Carvalho | TrustRadius Reviewer
Anderson Carvalho
Lead Site Reliability Engineer
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Performance
LaunchDarkly
From what I have seen, LaunchDarkly integrates well with your code and also services you might have in your tech ecosystem. We use Jenkins for automation and we were able to use it to build pipelines to automate the control of LaunchDarkly toggles in our code.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Support Rating
LaunchDarkly
The overall support is very responsive
Anderson Carvalho | TrustRadius Reviewer
Anderson Carvalho
Lead Site Reliability Engineer
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Implementation Rating
LaunchDarkly
Yes I do.
Anderson Carvalho | TrustRadius Reviewer
Anderson Carvalho
Lead Site Reliability Engineer
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Alternatives Considered
LaunchDarkly
LaunchDarkly stood out to us because it put control of the application within the hands of our engineers. We didn't want to allow business users to manipulate the production site via a third-party tool. Instead, our focus was on delivering faster as an engineering team.
Daniel Yefet | TrustRadius Reviewer
Daniel Yefet
Lead Developer
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Scalability
LaunchDarkly
The platform didn't go down since we implemented it
Anderson Carvalho | TrustRadius Reviewer
Anderson Carvalho
Lead Site Reliability Engineer
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Return on Investment
LaunchDarkly
  • Improved developer experience with some teams moving to Trunk-based Development.
  • Increased deployment frequency due to smaller code releases.
  • Validation of the technical and business value of work is achieved more quickly through smaller pieces of work and through experimenting with a small group of users before a feature gets to 100% of customers.
Verified User
Anonymous
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ScreenShots

LaunchDarkly Screenshots

Screenshot of regression detection and automated incident response at the feature level. This connects critical metrics to the release process so that every change is monitored - even the smallest releases, where issues would previously have been obscured by noise in the wider system metrics.Screenshot of where track the progression of a feature flag across a series of phases, where each phase consists of one or more environments.Screenshot of how to target groups of contexts individually or by attribute. Contexts are people, services, machines, or other resources that encounter feature flags in a product.Screenshot of where to design experiments that measure business-critical user flows and provide results specific to those product funnels, and measure multi-step user journeys. This is used to determine whether conversions are succeeding, with all metrics visible in one place.