Featureflip vs ConfigCat
Flat pricing, project ceilings, network-traffic allowances, and SAML/SCIM on free: a 2026 comparison.
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Featureflip is the cheaper, project-friendlier alternative to ConfigCat for small teams. Both are flat-priced, focused feature-flag tools with no per-seat and no per-MAU fees. On annual billing, Featureflip Team is $39/month for 3 projects and unlimited flags, matching ConfigCat Pro's 3-project ceiling at $110/month for 100 flags. Need more room? Featureflip Pro is $79/month for 10 projects. Pick Featureflip if you run multiple apps or want the cheaper paid tier. Pick ConfigCat if you need Rust, Elixir, Unity, Unreal, or edge-runtime SDKs, or longer audit-log retention.
At a glance
Five-row summary. Detail in the sections below.
| Featureflip | ConfigCat | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | $0/mo Free (up to 3 team members, 10 flags) | $0/mo Forever Free (unlimited seats, 10 flags, 2 products) |
| Paid tier (small team) | $39/mo Team, billed annually ($49 month-to-month), 3 projects, unlimited flags | $110/mo Pro, billed annually ($120 month-to-month), 3 projects, 100 flags |
| Per-seat fees | None | None (unlimited seats) |
| SAML / SCIM | Enterprise only (Google and GitHub sign-in on all tiers, OIDC SSO on Business) | All tiers (including Free) |
| Network-traffic cap | None, unlimited evaluations | 20 GB / 100 GB / 1 TB / 4 TB per tier, with add-on blocks past it |
Pricing comparison
Both tools are flat-priced, so the comparison reduces to plan ceilings (projects, flags, audit retention) and usage add-ons (paid blocks of extra downloads and traffic for ConfigCat, nothing for Featureflip).
Featureflip pricing
As of October 8, 2026.
- Free: $0/mo. 1 project, 10 flags per project, 2 environments, up to 3 team members, 7-day audit log. Free forever.
- Team: $49/mo ($39/mo annual). 3 projects, up to 5 team members, 3 environments, unlimited flags, scheduled changes, 30-day audit log.
- Pro: $99/mo ($79/mo annual). 10 projects, up to 10 team members, 5 environments, unlimited flags, scheduled changes, flag owners, 30-day audit log.
- Business: $249/mo ($199/mo annual). 25 projects, up to 25 team members, unlimited environments, unlimited flags, scheduled changes, flag owners, SSO with your own identity provider (OIDC), 90-day audit log.
- Enterprise: custom (sales@featureflip.io). Adds self-hosted deployment, SAML/SCIM SSO, custom data retention, dedicated SLA.
No per-seat fees. No per-MAU fees. No network-traffic limit. Unlimited evaluations on every plan. Google and GitHub sign-in are included on every plan, including Free. Business adds single sign-on through your own identity provider over OIDC, and Enterprise adds SAML/SCIM. See the full pricing page, or read how flat pricing tiers differ across vendors before you commit.
ConfigCat pricing
As of October 8, 2026, sourced from configcat.com/pricing. We re-verify quarterly.
- Forever Free: $0/mo. 2 products, 10 flags, 2 environments, unlimited seats, 20 GB/mo network traffic, 7-day audit log. SSO, SAML, and SCIM included.
- Pro: $110/mo billed annually ($120 month-to-month). 3 products, 100 flags, 3 environments, unlimited seats, 100 GB/mo network traffic, 35-day audit log.
- Smart: $325/mo billed annually ($360 month-to-month). 10 products, unlimited flags, unlimited environments, 1 TB/mo network traffic, 35-day audit log.
- Enterprise: $900/mo billed annually ($1,000 month-to-month). Unlimited products, 4 TB/mo network traffic, 2-year audit log, 99.99% SLA.
- Dedicated: $4,500/mo, annual billing only. Private cloud, 24 TB/mo network traffic, 2-year audit log.
ConfigCat includes SSO, SAML, and SCIM on every tier, a real advantage for procurement-gated buyers.
Estimate your own ConfigCat bill
Enter your product count, team size, and monthly network traffic to estimate ConfigCat's tiered cost against the cheapest Featureflip plan that fits your team and projects.
ConfigCat Pro
$1,320
per year, estimated (annual billing)
Featureflip Team
$468
per year, flat (annual billing). No usage-based fees on products and monthly network traffic.
At this usage, ConfigCat Pro runs about $1,320/year, roughly $852/year more than Featureflip Team at a flat $468. ConfigCat's bill climbs with your usage. Featureflip's changes only when you move to another plan.
ConfigCat rates sourced from configcat.com/pricing, checked October 8, 2026. Estimate covers Pro/Smart/Enterprise products and monthly network traffic only; it excludes flags/settings and environment ceilings (fixed per tier, not usage-metered), config JSON download caps (5M / 25M / 250M / 1B a month by tier), which can bind before traffic when configs are small, the annual-only Dedicated plan ($4,500 a month, private cloud or on-premise), which can undercut Enterprise plus add-ons at very high traffic, student/teacher and startup program discounts, negotiated Enterprise/Dedicated terms. Past 1,000 products, ConfigCat raises its technical limits on request, so there is no published price to model. Featureflip's side is the cheapest plan whose team-member and project limits fit these numbers.
Prefer a dedicated tool? Use the full ConfigCat cost calculator.
Worked example: small team running 3 apps
A team running 3 separate apps (web product, internal admin, mobile), 5 engineers, 12 flags per app (36 flags total):
- Featureflip Team: $39/mo billed annually = $468/year. 3-project ceiling matches this team exactly, with unlimited flags per project and a 30-day audit log.
- ConfigCat Pro: $110/mo billed annually = $1,320/year. Pro caps at 3 products and 100 flags. That exactly fits this team, but with no headroom. Adding a 4th app forces Smart at $325/mo = $3,900/year.
At this profile Featureflip Team is roughly 2.8× cheaper than ConfigCat Pro. When the 4th app ships, Featureflip moves to Pro at $79/mo annual ($948/year), about 4× under ConfigCat Smart.
Worked example: solo developer or freelancer
- Featureflip Free: $0/mo. 1 project, 10 flags, up to 3 team members.
- ConfigCat Forever Free: $0/mo. 2 products, unlimited seats, 20 GB/mo network traffic.
For freelancers maintaining multiple client projects, ConfigCat's free tier is still more generous on project count. Featureflip Free now covers a small team of up to 3 people rather than a single developer, though it stays capped at 1 project and 10 flags.
Pricing TL;DR
- Multi-project teams that want the cheapest flat paid tier: Featureflip Team ($49/mo, 3 projects), or Pro ($99/mo, 10 projects) for more room.
- Solo / freelancer wanting more than 1 project on free: ConfigCat Forever Free (2 products, unlimited seats).
- Procurement requires SAML/SCIM before purchase: ConfigCat (SAML/SCIM on every tier, including free).
Feature comparison
Verified against the Featureflip codebase and ConfigCat's public documentation as of October 8, 2026.
| Feature | Featureflip | ConfigCat |
|---|---|---|
| Core flags | ||
| Boolean flags | ✅ | ✅ |
| Multivariate flags (string, number, JSON) | ✅ | ⚠️ (string, int, double, no native JSON) |
| Percentage rollouts | ✅ | ✅ |
| Real-time updates | ✅ (SSE streaming) | ⚠️ (polling + webhook cache invalidation) |
| Local evaluation | ✅ (sub-millisecond) | ✅ (cached after first fetch) |
| Kill switches | ✅ | ✅ |
| Targeting | ||
| User targeting | ✅ | ✅ |
| Custom attributes | ✅ | ✅ |
| Segments / cohorts | ✅ | ✅ (2 / 3 / unlimited) |
| AND/OR condition groups | ✅ | ✅ |
| Prerequisite flags | ✅ | ✅ |
| Workflow | ||
| Multi-environment | ✅ (2 / 3 / 5 / unlimited) | ✅ (2 / 3 / unlimited) |
| Audit log | ✅ (7d / 30d / 90d) | ✅ (7d / 35d / 35d / 2y) |
| Stale flag detection | ✅ (auto Stale/Dead from evaluation traffic, plus expiry dates, and cleanup notice emails on Team and above) | ✅ (zombie flags report, last-changed based) |
| Removes the dead code by pull request | ✅ (one PR per flag, 13 languages, archives the flag on merge) | ❌ |
| Code references (scan repo for flag usage) | ✅ (cleanup Action, 13 languages) | ✅ (CLI) |
| Scheduled changes | ✅ (paid plans) | ✅ (via Change Requests) |
| AI agent flag management (MCP server) | ✅ | ✅ |
| OpenFeature provider | ✅ (Node.js, .NET, Python, Go, Java, PHP, Ruby) | ✅ (14 platforms incl. Go, Java, Python, PHP, Ruby, Swift, Rust) |
| Webhooks for change events | ✅ (1 / 3 / unlimited) | ✅ (1 / 3 / unlimited) |
| Experimentation | ||
| A/B variation assignment (multivariate + deterministic hash) | ✅ | ✅ |
| Built-in experiment analysis (significance, lift) | ❌ (use external analytics) | ❌ (use external analytics) |
| Enterprise & security | ||
| SSO with your identity provider | ✅ (OIDC on Business) | ✅ (all tiers including Free) |
| SAML / SCIM | ✅ (Enterprise) | ✅ (all tiers including Free) |
| Custom roles / RBAC | ✅ | ✅ (1 / 2 / unlimited groups) |
| Self-hosted / private cloud | ✅ (Enterprise) | ✅ (Dedicated, $4,500/mo) |
| Pricing model | ||
| Per-seat fees | None | None (unlimited seats) |
| Per-MAU fees | None | None |
| Network-traffic cap | Unlimited | ✅ (20 GB / 100 GB / 1 TB / 4 TB, soft with add-ons) |
| Free tier | ✅ (up to 3 team members, 10 flags) | ✅ (unlimited seats, 10 flags, 2 products) |
SDK and platform support
ConfigCat's SDK breadth is wider. Both tools ship JavaScript, Node.js, Python, .NET, Java, Go, PHP, Ruby, React, Swift/iOS, Android, and Flutter, the major server and client surface. ConfigCat additionally ships Rust, Elixir, Kotlin Multiplatform, Unity, Unreal Engine, Bun, Deno, Cloudflare Workers, and C++. Featureflip's official list covers 13 SDKs. ConfigCat's covers roughly 22. ConfigCat also ships OpenFeature providers for 14 platforms, and Featureflip ships them for Node.js, .NET, Python, Go, Java, PHP and Ruby.
If your stack uses Elixir, Rust, Kotlin Multiplatform, Unity, Unreal, Bun, Deno, or Cloudflare Workers, ConfigCat is the better fit today. Game-development teams in particular should default to ConfigCat for the Unity and Unreal SDK coverage. Featureflip's REST and SSE streaming APIs work from any HTTP-capable runtime, but you write the integration yourself.
See the Featureflip SDK overview for the current supported list.
Where each tool wins
Honest is faster than balanced. Use whichever column matches your situation.
Pick ConfigCat when…
- You need SAML or SCIM on day one without paying Enterprise. ConfigCat ships SAML/SCIM on every tier including the free Forever plan. Featureflip includes Google and GitHub sign-in on every tier and OIDC single sign-on on Business, but reserves SAML/SCIM for Enterprise. For procurement teams that gate vendor approval on SAML/SCIM presence specifically, ConfigCat removes that block at $0/mo.
- Your stack uses Elixir, Rust, Kotlin Multiplatform, Unity, Unreal, Bun, Deno, or Cloudflare Workers. ConfigCat's SDK list is roughly 1.7× wider and covers game development and edge runtimes that Featureflip does not.
- You need long-term audit-log retention. ConfigCat Enterprise retains audit logs for 2 years. Featureflip Business is 90 days.
- You're a freelancer or solo dev with multiple client projects. ConfigCat Forever Free (2 products, unlimited seats) still edges out Featureflip Free (1 project, up to 3 team members) on project count for that profile.
Pick Featureflip when…
- You want the cheaper paid tier at the same feature surface. On annual billing, Featureflip Team is $39/mo for 3 projects and unlimited flags, matching ConfigCat Pro's 3-project ceiling at $110/mo for 100 flags. That makes Featureflip roughly 2.8× cheaper at the same usage profile.
- You run multiple apps or expect to. Featureflip Team covers 3 projects at $39/mo annual, and Pro extends that to 10 projects at $79/mo annual. ConfigCat Pro forces a jump to Smart ($325/mo) the moment you exceed 3 products, a roughly 3× price step against Featureflip's 2×.
- You don't want network-traffic accounting. Featureflip evaluations are unlimited on every tier. ConfigCat meters network traffic, a non-issue for most apps but a hidden cost for chatty client-side apps with high MAU.
- You want real-time SSE streaming, not polling. Featureflip pushes flag changes to SDKs via Server-Sent Events. ConfigCat's default model is polling with webhook-triggered cache invalidation. For kill switches and incident response where seconds matter, SSE is the cleaner model.
- You want finished flags deleted from the code by pull request. Featureflip marks a flag Stale or Dead from evaluation traffic, and the cleanup Action opens one pull request per flag that removes it, across 13 languages including Swift, Kotlin and Dart. The rewrite uses AST transforms with no LLM, so the same repository always gets the same diff. Merge it, and the flag is archived once the change ships.
- You need native JSON flags. Featureflip supports JSON variations as a first-class flag type. ConfigCat supports string, integer, and double. JSON encodes as a string but loses SDK call-site type-safety.
- You want a modern, focused tool surface. No legacy product clutter, no analytics or observability bundled in. The dashboard does one thing.
Migrating from ConfigCat to Featureflip
Most teams choose at adoption time rather than migrating. If you're switching, here's what changes.
Concept mapping
The core data model translates cleanly. Most flag definitions move 1:1.
| ConfigCat | Featureflip | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Product | Project | Same concept, different name. Recreate each ConfigCat product as a Featureflip project. |
| User Object | User / context | Context passed per evaluation in both: string, number, boolean attributes. |
| Segment | Segment | 1:1. Recreate via the Featureflip dashboard. |
| Targeting rule | Targeting rule (condition groups) | Featureflip groups conditions with AND/OR operators between groups. Condition operators move 1:1. |
| Percentage Option | Percentage rollout | Deterministic-hash bucketing on both sides. |
| String / int / double setting | String / number / JSON variation | Int and double both map to Featureflip's number type. ConfigCat JSON-encoded strings move to native JSON variations. |
Things to plan for
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Prerequisite flags.
ConfigCat's parent-child flag dependencies now migrate 1:1. Featureflip ships first-class variation-match prerequisite flags with cycle detection and a dedicated
PrerequisiteFailedevaluation reason. ConfigCat's "does not equal" comparator inverts to an equivalent "equals" prerequisite during migration. - Stale flag detection works differently. ConfigCat's zombie flags report surfaces flags that haven't been changed or toggled within a configured period. Featureflip's stale flag detection instead classifies every flag-environment as Active, Stale (30 days), or Dead (90 days) from real evaluation traffic, with reasons attached, so a flag that's still toggled occasionally but serves one variation to everyone is caught too. ConfigCat's code-references CLI has a counterpart as well. The cleanup Action runs in your CI, finds where a finished flag is read, and opens a pull request that deletes it. A key built from a variable at runtime is the exception, and still needs a code search.
- Audit log retention. Drops from ConfigCat Enterprise's 2 years to Featureflip Business's 90 days. Export ConfigCat logs before migration if you need historical compliance records.
- Webhooks need re-pointing. ConfigCat's webhook payload shape differs from Featureflip's. Create a Featureflip webhook subscription for each endpoint, then update the receiving code to read the new payload and verify its signature.
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SDK initialization changes.
Replace
ConfigCatClient.get(sdkKey)withFeatureflipClient.get(sdkKey)at the application entry point. Flag-key strings carry over as-is for most cases.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Featureflip cheaper than ConfigCat?
- At the paid tier, yes. Featureflip Team is $49 per month flat ($39 per month annual) for 3 projects and unlimited flags. ConfigCat Pro is $120 per month ($110 per month annual) for 3 projects and 100 flags. For multi-project teams Featureflip is roughly 2.4× cheaper month-to-month, or 2.8× on annual billing, at the same usage profile. On the free tier ConfigCat is more generous for freelancers with multiple client projects: 2 products and unlimited seats, against Featureflip Free at 1 project and up to 3 team members.
- Does ConfigCat have a project limit and does Featureflip?
- Yes to both, and the limits differ significantly at the paid tier. ConfigCat Pro is capped at 3 products. Featureflip Team matches that ceiling at 3 projects for $39 per month on annual billing, and Featureflip Pro goes further to 10 projects for $79 per month annual. The 4th product on ConfigCat forces an upgrade to Smart at $325 per month billed annually. Featureflip has no such cliff between Team and Pro.
- Does Featureflip charge per network traffic or evaluation like ConfigCat?
- No. Every Featureflip plan includes unlimited evaluations and has no network-traffic limit. ConfigCat sets a network-traffic allowance per tier (20 GB on Free, 100 GB on Pro, 1 TB on Smart, 4 TB on Enterprise) and sells add-on blocks when you go past it. For most applications the allowance is not binding, but high-MAU client-side apps with chatty SDK polling can hit it.
- Does Featureflip include SSO and SAML like ConfigCat does on free?
- Featureflip includes Google and GitHub sign-in on every plan, including Free, and Business adds single sign-on through your own identity provider over OIDC. What requires Enterprise is SAML/SCIM for enterprise identity providers. ConfigCat ships SAML and SCIM on every tier including their free Forever plan. If your procurement process specifically requires SAML/SCIM before purchase, ConfigCat is the cheaper path until you cross the project or flag ceiling.
- Does Featureflip support multivariate and A/B testing like ConfigCat?
- Yes. Featureflip supports boolean, string, number, and JSON variations with deterministic-hash percentage rollouts. The bucketing is consistent across sessions and devices, which is the property that makes A/B data analyzable. Neither Featureflip nor ConfigCat ships a built-in significance and lift dashboard. Both expect you to instrument variation assignment into your own analytics (Mixpanel, Amplitude, your warehouse) and compute results there. LaunchDarkly is a major vendor that bundles the analysis.
- What SDKs do Featureflip and ConfigCat support?
- Heavy overlap on the major server and client surface. Both ship JavaScript, Node.js, Python, .NET, Java, Go, PHP, Ruby, React, Swift/iOS, Android, and Flutter. ConfigCat additionally ships Rust, Elixir, Kotlin Multiplatform, Unity, Unreal Engine, Bun, Deno, Cloudflare Workers, and C++. Featureflip additionally ships a dedicated Browser SDK with first-class React bindings. If your stack uses Rust, Elixir, Unity, Unreal, or a modern edge runtime, ConfigCat is the better fit today.
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Methodology: All ConfigCat information was sourced from public documentation (pricing, product, SDK reference) as of October 8, 2026. We re-verify pricing and feature claims quarterly. Featureflip is our product. Comparison reflects publicly stated capabilities. Specific entitlements may vary by contract.
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