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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    LaunchDarkly

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/ALaunchDarkly 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

    Pivotal Tracker

    Score5 out of 10
    N/APivotal Tracker is a project management program primarily for software developers. It is built from the ground up to facilitate the agile development cycle, and is optimized for structuring projects in sprints, or “stories.” The solution is now owned and supported by VMware, and is part of the Pivotal / Tanzu product line up.N/A
    Pricing
    LaunchDarklyPivotal Tracker
    Editions & Modules
    Foundation
    $12
    per month per Service Connection per month, or $10 per 1k client-side MAU per mo
    Enterprise
    Custom
    Guardian
    Custom
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    LaunchDarklyPivotal Tracker
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscount available on the Foundation plan for annual pricing.—
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    LaunchDarkly
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
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    78%
    Would buy again
    7 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    8 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    LaunchDarklyPivotal Tracker
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of LaunchDarkly and Pivotal Tracker
    Feature
    LaunchDarkly
    -
    Ratings
    Pivotal Tracker
    6.0
    1 Ratings
    22% below category average
    Task Management00 Ratings3.01 Ratings
    Resource Management00 Ratings3.01 Ratings
    Scheduling00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Email integration00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Mobile Access00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Search00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Agile Development
    Comparison of Agile Development features of LaunchDarkly and Pivotal Tracker
    Feature
    LaunchDarkly
    -
    Ratings
    Pivotal Tracker
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    4% above category average
    DevOps Tool Integrations00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Velocity Calculation00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Dependencies and Blockers00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    LaunchDarklyPivotal Tracker
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (29 ratings)
    8.0
    (32 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (27 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.1
    (26 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (9 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    LaunchDarklyPivotal Tracker
    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.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    The UI of the Pivotal tracker is really beautiful and amazing, which looks trivial, but we have it open all the time, so it's nice for us. In Pivotal tracker for me its very Easy to create tasks or stories anytime without facing any problems. Pivotal tracker provides us a ton of features to track the tasks and manage a team and the projects. Pivotal tracker allows for a entire team to be on the same page of the tool in regards to where is the project right now, right status of every task, what is being worked on and by whom.
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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.
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    • It's great for tracking milestones and reporting team velocity per sprint.
    • Maintaining a prioritized backlog that is sharable with different members of your team is relatively simple.
    • There's a free version of the product for up to 3 collaborators working on 2 projects and the starting price for larger packages is relatively low.
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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.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    • In-story task management is still a weak point. The ability to @mention users in tasks and mark tasks as 'in-progress' would go a long way.
    • Epics do not span projects. This becomes troublesome when scaling Pivotal Tracker's agile methodology to multiple teams.
    • Splitting stories is often confusing for team members as there is no concept of a 'parent' story with child stories that have split off of it. There are only two levels: Epic & Story.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    LaunchDarkly
    It fits out business case
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    VMware by Broadcom
    I love the simplicity, non-configurability, and price/performance of this tool. Hands down my favorite project management tool for agile.
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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.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    It was generally easy to use once you got the hang of it. The searching and tagging of tickets was fine, commenting worked well, and release planning was good. However, it wasn't the most intuitive tool in the beginning. The UI is pretty outdated and could have used upgrades over time.
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    Reliability and Availability
    LaunchDarkly
    No issue with availability at all
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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.
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    Support Rating
    LaunchDarkly
    The overall support is very responsive
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    VMware by Broadcom
    We've never had to request support in the 5 years I have been using it. A solid solution! Everything I have had questions about is on the website. New features are in their newsletter with more details on their website. Often I am using the new features within a few minutes of reading the article.
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    Implementation Rating
    LaunchDarkly
    Yes I do.
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    Alternatives Considered
    LaunchDarkly
    Have used a custom feature flag application created inhouse. All the basic functionality was same as the ones that LaunchDarkly provides. But as time progressed, it required more and more tracking capabilities like which user has turned on/off a feature flag, what are the statuses of different feature flags that are being used across the application etc., So, all and all maintenance of such tracking has become cumbersome.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    We have had employees in the past look at Drupal, and other open source project management tools to assist in our needs. Unfortunately each solution took too much time to implement, design and configure that we could not stop the work we were doing for clients to complete a full set up of a project tracker. Thankfully Pivotal is a predefined solution with no configuration needed. Simply input your projects, design your Stories with Tasks and begin your tracking.
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    Scalability
    LaunchDarkly
    The platform didn't go down since we implemented it
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    VMware by Broadcom
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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.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    • Time is money with development and a lot of things can fall through the cracks. Having a good system for making sure you're building the most relevant product for customers is really important so it was well worth it for us.
    • The process we used worked for us and it helped us streamline our development which reduced a lot of things falling through the cracks and headaches. I'm sure there are other products that can do the same job just as effectively but Pivotal Tracker worked well for us.
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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 how LaunchDarkly helps developers compare agent iterations, track key metrics like acceptance, accuracy, latency, and token usage, and safely push the best-performing variation live.Screenshot of the interface used to test prompts side by side, switch between providers like OpenAI, Gemini, and Anthropic, and add custom models or manage API keys.Screenshot of adaptive triggers, which let developers automatically respond to AI performance changes by setting thresholds for metrics like hallucination rate and taking actions such as switching to a stronger model or changing providers.