Unleash cost calculator

Unleash cloud bills $75 per seat per month, so your bill tracks headcount. Enter your team size and monthly API requests to estimate it, then see it against Featureflip's flat price.

Unleash Pay-As-You-Go

$7,200

per year, estimated

Featureflip Pro

$948

per year, flat. No usage-based fees on cloud seats and API requests.

At this usage, Unleash Pay-As-You-Go runs about $7,200/year, roughly $6,252/year more than Featureflip Pro at a flat $948. Unleash's bill climbs with your usage. Featureflip's changes only when you move to another plan.

Unleash rates sourced from getunleash.io/pricing, checked October 8, 2026. Estimate covers Pay-As-You-Go cloud seats and API requests only; it excludes the free self-hosted open-source edition (no license fee but you carry the operational cost), the self-hosted 5-seat minimum (it does not apply to the Cloud plan modeled here), quote-only Enterprise contract terms (a 99.99% uptime commitment, streaming through Enterprise Edge, private instances), self-hosted infrastructure and engineering time. Pay-As-You-Go already includes the full Enterprise feature set, SCIM among it. The quote-only Enterprise contract adds a 99.99% uptime commitment, streaming through Enterprise Edge, and add-ons such as private instances. Featureflip's side is the cheapest plan whose team-member and project limits fit these numbers.

The pricing behind the numbers

Sourced from getunleash.io/pricing, checked October 8, 2026.

  • Open Source — $0 in license fees, self-hosted. Limited to 1 project and 2 environments; no SSO, custom RBAC, or change requests. AGPL-3.0 server repository.
  • Pay-As-You-Go — $75/seat/month, billed by credit card, after a 14-day free trial with no card. Cloud or self-hosted (5-seat minimum applies to self-hosted). Unlimited flags, projects, and environments. Includes SSO, role-based access control, and change requests.
  • Cloud request allowance — 53 million API requests a month included, then $5 per additional million.
  • Custom Enterprise — quote-only annual contract. Adds a 99.99% SLA, SSE streaming through Enterprise Edge (Early Access), and optional add-ons such as private instances, multi-region Edge, access logs, and IP restrictions. SCIM provisioning is already on Pay-As-You-Go, and a dedicated customer success manager comes with Premium support.

This estimate covers the hosted Cloud plan. It excludes the free self-hosted open-source edition (no license fee, but you carry the operational cost), the self-hosted 5-seat minimum, and negotiated Enterprise terms. Unleash publishes no annual-commit discount on Pay-As-You-Go, so there is no annual toggle on its side.

Featureflip is flat, whatever your headcount

The Free plan costs nothing for up to 3 team members, Team is $49 per month ($39 a month, $468 a year, billed annually) for up to 5, Pro is $99 per month ($79 a month, $948 a year, billed annually) for up to 10, and Business is $249 per month ($199 a month, $2,388 a year, billed annually) for up to 25. Nothing is metered: no per-seat or per-request fees on any plan. See the full pricing page, or read the Featureflip vs Unleash comparison for feature parity, open-source trade-offs, and self-hosting notes.

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Frequently asked questions

How much does Unleash cost?
Unleash cloud has a single published plan: Pay-As-You-Go at $75 per seat per month, billed by credit card, after a 14-day free trial with no card required. It includes unlimited flags, projects, and environments, plus 53 million API requests a month on Cloud, with $5 per additional million beyond that. Self-hosted Pay-As-You-Go carries a 5-seat minimum. Custom Enterprise is an annual contract and quote-only. The open-source edition is free to self-host. Rates were checked on October 8, 2026 from getunleash.io/pricing.
Does Unleash have a free tier?
Not on cloud. Unleash cloud gives you a 14-day trial and then moves to Pay-As-You-Go at $75 per seat per month, so there is no free hosted plan to stay on. The only free option is self-hosting the open-source edition, which is limited to 1 project and 2 environments and excludes SSO, custom RBAC, and change requests. Featureflip's Free plan is free forever in the cloud with no card and no trial clock, which is why a zero-seat estimate here shows the Unleash open-source self-host case rather than a free cloud tier.
Why does my Unleash bill grow when my traffic does not?
Because the price is driven by headcount, not usage. Every person who needs an Unleash login costs another $75 a month, so onboarding four engineers adds $3,600 a year even if your flag count and request volume are unchanged. The 53-million-request cloud allowance is generous, and Unleash backend SDKs evaluate locally and poll for updates, so most teams never reach the overage. Seats are the variable that actually moves the bill.
Can I avoid Unleash fees by self-hosting?
Yes. The open-source edition has no license fee, and it is the largest open-source feature flag project on GitHub. The trade-offs are operational ownership (database, upgrades, monitoring, on-call), a 1-project and 2-environment ceiling, an AGPL-3.0 server license that some legal teams treat differently from a permissive one, and no SSO, custom RBAC, or change requests. This calculator estimates the hosted cloud plan only; self-hosting cost is your infrastructure and engineering time, which no calculator can price for you.
How is this estimate calculated?
Seats are multiplied by the published $75 per seat per month, then any API requests above the 53-million monthly cloud allowance are added at $5 per million, and the total is annualized. It models the Cloud plan, so the 5-seat minimum (which applies to self-hosted Pay-As-You-Go) is not imposed on the math. Unleash publishes no annual-commit discount, so there is no billing toggle on the Unleash side. Featureflip picks the cheapest Featureflip plan that fits your seat count, a flat price that does not move with requests. Every rate is sourced and dated on this page.