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ConfigCat
Feature flag service priced per flag and environment with unlimited seats and unlimited monthly active users
As of 31 August 2026, ConfigCat has a free plan and paid plans start at $110/month. A deliberately small feature flag service whose pricing model inverts the category: seats and MAUs are unlimited on every plan including the free one, and you pay for the number of flags and environments instead. Softwr lists it under Developer Tools. ConfigCat is made by ConfigCat Kft., available on Web, API, iOS, Android.
Overview
What ConfigCat does
ConfigCat is a hosted feature flag and configuration service with SDKs for the usual languages and frameworks, percentage rollouts, user targeting rules, segments and an audit log. It runs a global CDN for flag delivery and the SDKs cache locally, so evaluating a flag does not require a network call on the hot path. There is a public API, webhooks and connectors for the common CI and monitoring tools. The distinguishing decision is the pricing axis. LaunchDarkly, Split and most of the market charge by seats or by monthly tracked users, which means a consumer app with millions of users pays proportionally to its success even when it uses ten flags. ConfigCat charges by feature flags, environments and products, with unlimited team seats, unlimited MAUs and unlimited flag reads on every tier including Forever Free. Free gives 10 flags across 2 environments and 2 products; Pro is 110 dollars a month for 100 flags, 3 environments and 3 products; Smart is 325 dollars a month for unlimited flags and environments; Enterprise is 900 dollars a month; and a Dedicated tier is 4,500 dollars a month. Those figures are published on the site rather than quoted. Buyers are engineering teams that want reliable flags without a platform-scale bill, and particularly consumer and mobile teams whose user counts would make MAU pricing painful. The trade-off is scope. ConfigCat does flags well and stops there. It has no serious experimentation engine, no metrics pipeline and no statistical analysis, so if you want to run A/B tests with proper significance testing you will be buying a second tool anyway.
What people use it for
- A consumer or mobile app with millions of users where per-MAU flag pricing would cost more than the flags are worth
- A team that wants every engineer, product manager and support agent to have a login without paying per seat
- Decoupling deployment from release with percentage rollouts and a kill switch, without buying an experimentation platform
- A small team that needs ten flags permanently and can run indefinitely on the free tier
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Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about ConfigCat.
- There is no experimentation or statistical analysis engine, so teams wanting real A/B tests with significance testing must buy and integrate a separate analytics or experimentation product.
- Pricing by flag count punishes exactly the hygiene you want: the Pro tier caps at 100 flags, so teams that do not aggressively retire stale flags are pushed to the 325 dollar Smart tier for housekeeping reasons rather than growth.
- The free tier allows only 2 environments, which does not cover the common development, staging and production split, so almost any real deployment starts on a paid plan.
- It is a smaller vendor than the category incumbents, so enterprise procurement teams will find less depth in compliance attestations, contractual terms and reference architecture than LaunchDarkly offers.
- Flag evaluation relies on SDK-side caching of a CDN-delivered config, which is fast but means propagation of a change is eventually consistent rather than instant, something to understand before relying on it as an emergency kill switch.
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Pricing
What ConfigCat costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Forever Free
Free
- 10 feature flags
- 2 environments and 2 products
- 2 segments
- Unlimited seats, MAUs and flag reads
Pro
$110 /mo
- 100 feature flags
- 3 environments and 3 products
- Unlimited seats and MAUs
- Audit log and targeting rules
Smart
$325 /mo
- Unlimited feature flags
- Unlimited environments, products and segments
- Unlimited seats and MAUs
Enterprise
$900 /mo
- Everything in Smart
- Enterprise support and controls
- Unlimited everything on flag counts
Dedicated
$4,500 /mo
- Dedicated infrastructure
- Highest support tier
- Unlimited flags, environments and users
Capabilities
Features
Feature flags and configuration
Boolean, string, number and JSON settings delivered to SDKs
Percentage rollouts
Gradual release by percentage with sticky user bucketing
Targeting rules and segments
Rules on user attributes and reusable segment definitions
Unlimited seats
Every plan including the free tier allows unlimited team members
Global CDN delivery
Flag configuration served from edge nodes with local SDK caching
Audit log
History of who changed which flag and when
Public API and webhooks
Automate flag changes and react to them in pipelines
SDKs across languages
Server, browser and mobile SDKs with offline caching
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
How is ConfigCat priced?
By feature flag, environment and product count. Seats, monthly active users and flag reads are unlimited on every plan.
Is the free tier usable?
For small projects yes, but at 10 flags and 2 environments it will not cover a dev, staging and production setup.
Can it run A/B tests?
It can split traffic, but there is no statistics engine. You need a separate analytics tool to decide a winner.
How fast does a flag change take effect?
SDKs poll and cache, so changes propagate on the polling interval rather than instantly.
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