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The best Feature flags & experimentation

Every option ranked — open-source, self-hostable, and commercial — by our transparent Sovereignty Score, with honest trade-offs so you choose what fits you, not us.

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  1. 1

    Unleash

    Top pickOpen source

    The most complete open feature-flag platform, and it self-hosts properly.

    Open-source server free and self-hostable. Hosted and enterprise tiers are paid. · in our LaunchDarkly comparison →

    89
    sovereignty
    What is Unleash? →
  2. 2

    OpenFeature

    Open source

    Not a platform — the standard that makes the platform swappable.

    Free and open source. It is a specification and a set of SDKs. · in our LaunchDarkly comparison →

    97
    sovereignty
    What is OpenFeature? →
  3. 3

    Flipt

    Open source

    Flags defined in Git, evaluated by one Go binary.

    Free and open source. One binary on hardware you already have. · in our LaunchDarkly comparison →

    93
    sovereignty
    What is Flipt? →
  4. 4

    Flagsmith

    Open source

    BSD-licensed flags with remote config, and no copyleft to reason about.

    Open source free and self-hostable. Hosted plans have a free tier and paid tiers above it. · in our LaunchDarkly comparison →

    90
    sovereignty
    What is Flagsmith? →
  5. 5

    GrowthBook

    Open source

    Flags plus a real statistics engine — the experimentation answer.

    Self-hostable core free. Cloud and enterprise tiers are paid. · in our LaunchDarkly comparison →

    83
    sovereignty
    What is GrowthBook? →

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