Best in class for in-app feature flagging, not well suited for website a/b testing
March 19, 2021

Best in class for in-app feature flagging, not well suited for website a/b testing

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with LaunchDarkly

We use LaunchDarkly as a key part of our shipping & QA process. Let's us ship features behind a feature flag, first roll out internally to employees, then a controlled roll out to a percentage of users, before turning on for all users. Each of the steps only takes a few seconds, without any code changes. Being able to safely roll out features in this way helps us move faster.
  • Very customized, detailed flag targeting (e.g. only 10% of users with a given attribute).
  • Immediately having flag changes pushed out to clients, rather than polling every few minutes.
  • Letting you know when flags are now "stale" and can be removed.
  • Dashboard UI could use some improvement, not always obvious which environment you're in.
  • Would be nice to have a better high level overview in the dashboard.
  • Improved developer experience.
  • Reliability
  • Developer velocity
Documentation could be better for setting up LaunchDarkly in different environments, integrating with standard frameworks.
Have not experienced any downtime, outages, or incorrect flags.

Do you think LaunchDarkly delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with LaunchDarkly's feature set?

Yes

Did LaunchDarkly live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of LaunchDarkly go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy LaunchDarkly again?

Yes

LaunchDarkly is great for controlled roll-outs and feature flagging for web apps. One main drawback is LaunchDarkly's pricing is not well suited for website a/b testing or feature flagging. The pricing is based on MAU (monthly active users), which for your true "app users" makes sense, but if a website visitor counts as an MAU, the pricing doesn't make sense.