LaunchDarkly vs. Split

LaunchDarkly is a Split alternative built for modern development workflows. With unmatched scale and powerful experimentation, our platform helps teams efficiently manage the entire feature lifecycle.

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Complete Flag Lifecycle Management

LaunchDarkly helps teams easily manage the technical debt associated with implementing feature flags at scale.

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Integrate with Git

Automatically update flag references with every commit to GitHub, Bitbucket, or any other Git tool you're using. 

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Flag Safely

Ensure that you have wrapped all relevant code in the correct feature flags.

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Keep Code Clean

Easily find and remove flags that you no longer need, keeping your code base clean and consistent.

Sophisticated User Targeting

Our sophisticated targeting rules allow you to test new features safely, in production. Build custom user segments based on any attribute, no matter how granular you need to go. 

Target specific users based on built-in LaunchDarkly user attributes like name, email and country or build more complex rules based on multiple custom attributes. Use the LaunchDarkly UI to target users based on any custom attributes that you define, such as entitlement rights from salesforce, outputs from a ML model running on your customer usage data, or enriched demographic data from third-party customer enrichment platforms such as Clearbit.

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Advanced Feature Management Workflows

With Feature Workflows, you can now elevate your use of feature flags by creating complex workflows within LaunchDarkly that better map to how your teams build, ship, and control software. 

  • Automate and safeguard changes to your features.
  • Create a standardized release process.
  • Ensure consistent practices across the entire organization.
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Scheduling

Schedule changes to your flag's targeting rules for a future date and time.

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Approvals

Coming soon

Require approvals before making changes to critical feature flags.

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Flag Triggers

Coming soon

Automate changes to your feature flags based on metrics from external tools.

Integrate with LaunchDarkly

Leverage the power of LaunchDarkly in your workflow by connecting with the tools you use every day for monitoring, collaboration, and data analysis.

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Unmatched scale and architecture

The LaunchDarkly platform is designed to handle your biggest requests. Our custom-built architecture uses a real-time streaming connection to ensure our services are delivered lightning-fast and secure, anywhere in the world.

20T+

Feature flags served to users daily

14M+

Mobile & browsers served world-wide daily

3M+

Servers reached world-wide daily

200ms

To propagate feature flag updates

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Compare the full list of features.

Basic Feature Flag Use Cases
Decoupling deploy and release, kill switch, test in production, infrastructure migration.

Yes

Yes

Advanced Targeting
Based on any attribute, rule, or other flags.

Yes

Yes

Streaming Architecture Flag changes in under 200ms. (for every SDK).

Yes

No

Flag Scheduling
Automate flag changes and progressive rollouts.

Yes

No

Flag Approvals
Have a teammate review flag changes before publishing.

Yes

Yes

Flag Triggers
Automate flag changes based on metrics from external tools.

Yes

No

Approval Workflows
Comply with change management practices while supporting flexible release workflows.

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No

COMING SOON
Workflow Templates
Create reusable templates for automating safer releases.

Yes

No

Complete Lifecycle Management Built to minimize technical debt and manage feature flags at scale.

Yes

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Experimentation
Gather data on how your feature is performing.

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Yes

Technical Debt Management
Create, manage, and archive feature flags easily.

Yes

Yes

Enterprise Team Management Provide users with the right level of access, enabling collaboration and security.

Yes

No

Data Export Construct more powerful product and user analysis, enriched by flag data.

Yes

Yes

20+ Integrations Leverage feature flags in your existing workflow.

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No

SDKs for Every Major Language Thoughtfully written by developers, for developers.

Yes

No

Security and Compliance SOC-2 Type II, ISO-27001, GDPR, EU/US Privacy Shield.

Yes

Yes

Relay Proxy Enterprise Ensure resiliency and redundancy of your features even during network outages.

Yes

No

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The fact that we can manage software releases and support experimentation in the same platform is remarkable.

Kahne Raja

DevOps Engineer, Stash

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The World’s Best Development Teams Are Using LaunchDarkly to Build Better Software, Faster.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Why do engineers, devops, and SREs choose LaunchDarkly over Split?

Products often aim to help one team, while creating additional work for other teams. For instance, experimentation tools work great for gathering data on which user experience is performing best, but fall flat at enabling new processes for launching features at scale, supporting DevOps programs, and aiding Ops teams to migrate between service providers without affecting end users. 

LaunchDarkly instead aligns the needs of all teams, starting with developers. We provide a first-class API and powerful, thoughtfully written SDKs to make feature management foundational to your business. When LaunchDarkly is at the foundation, you can empower all teams -- development, operations, product, marketing, and sales -- to participate in providing the best experience for your customers.

Why do product teams choose LaunchDarkly over Split?

In addition to the challenges you face today, LaunchDarkly supports your growth across all areas, including the ability to build feature management practices for any use case needed by your teams.

LaunchDarkly customers use feature management to do everything from: simple A/B testing and experimentation, to advanced roll out strategies such as progressive delivery and ring-based deployments, all the way into actions like complex infrastructure migrations, subscription monitoring (feature entitlements), and customer support.

How much does LaunchDarkly cost?

LaunchDarkly offers 3 pricing tiers.

The LaunchDarkly Starter plan helps small teams reduce time spent building homegrown feature flags for $10/user/month. Starter plans include unlimited feature flags and environments, a feature flag dashboard, access to 25+ SDKs, and integrations with Slack and Microsoft Teams.

The LaunchDarkly Pro plan provides large teams scalable feature management and experimentation for $20/user/month. Pro plans include everything in the Starter plan plus: unlimited projects, API controls, reusable segments, flag reviews by peers, and access to all integrations.

Global teams with enterprise needs such as custom roles and permissions, SSO/SAML/SCIM, flag scheduling, required approvals, and bulk user targeting, can contact our sales team for a quote.

More LaunchDarkly pricing details are available on our pricing page.