Launchdarkly vs Split - Compare Feature Flag Alternatives
The best feature management solutions do more than use feature flags to turn features ON and OFF. They connect insightful data to everything you release to eliminate hesitation from the software development process.
Launch Darkly and Split both offer feature flags and experimentation capabilities. However, only Split provides the data privacy, automatic release verification, and full lifecycle automation capabilities that enterprises need to efficiently deliver impactful products.
LaunchDarkly Weaknesses - Addressed by Harness
LaunchDarkly Weaknesses
Complicated pricing model with multiple overlapping axes, lacks cost predictability and disincentivizes adoption.Limited flag monitoring. Not every critical metric or flag type is monitored, including percentage rollouts and experiments. Ingesting event data and creating metrics are manual and tedious, causing friction for adoption.With no client-side decision engine in the SDKs, sensitive data is sent to the cloud for feature evaluation. Release pipelines are limited to the scope of flags only and one flag type (boolean). Not a realistic solution for CD automation. No ability to automate the flag removal process.How Split FME Does It Better
Simple pricing model, full cost transparency and access to all platform capabilities on all tiers. Detects rollout impact across all critical metrics for every flag type, hence every release is protected. Performance data and metrics are captured automatically, making feature-level monitoring immediate. All SDKs have an in-memory decision engine, so sensitive client data is never sent to the cloud. With Harness' pipelines, automation can span multiple tools, all flag types across multiple environments and support complex flag orchestrations. Streamlined flag debt management with automatic flag removal.Split FME vs. Launch Darkly
CAPAbility
Broad SDK support
Secure client and server-side architecture
Customize SDK flag retrieval
Support for custom audience targeting units
Feature flags as code
No-code dynamic configurations
CI/CD/Feature Flags pipeline integration & automation
Smart scheduled rollouts
Migration support with a single flag
Mobile environment attribute auto-capture
Advanced approval flows
Automated flag removal
Experiments
Release verification
Client-side auto-generate performance metrics
Traffic allocation
Out of the box metrics
Custom metric filters
Dimensional analysis
Enforce mandatory guardrail monitoring on all rollouts
Flexible, high-volume event ingest
RBAC and group based permissions
SCIM
Business intelligence dashboards
Rigorous compliance program
What Sets Split Apart As a Leader in Feature Management & Experimentation
Most Trusted by Complex Enterprises
Open Policy Agent enables enterprise–scale governance as- code, reliability, and workflow management to meet the needs of highly regulated orgs.
100% Feature-Level Observability
Direct visibility into the health of every change without manual
report creation or the guesswork of time based correlation.
Native CI/CD Support & Pipeline Extensibility
Get visibility into any change from code to release. Create standardized and automated processes across all stages of
the SDLC.
Unmatched data privacy by default
Unique architecture keeps sensitive customer data safely inside your app, eliminating the risk of human error.
Previously, we’d see a 20%-40% increase in support cases, issues & questions during the first 2 weeks of a code release. With Split, that’s been basically minimized to no incidents. Support costs have been drastically reduced.
Adobe Workfront
We went from slow rollouts, costly failures, and late-night deployments to speed, safety, and peace of mind!
The impact on developer experience was striking!
Geoff Rayback, Director of Engineering
Split Is a Leader in Feature Management and Continuous Delivery
Private Data Stays in Your App
Unlike LaunchDarkly, Split is built from the ground up with privacy in mind. Sensitive user data stays within your app or server and is never sent to Split. LaunchDarkly’s client-side SDK’s have no decision engine and must always send sensitive user data to a cloud service for flagging decisions. With LaunchDarkly, you can mark the data “private,” but it still flows out of your app regardless. Split privacy on the other hand is built stronger for enterprises.
Essential Scheduling
Don’t launch darkly without Essential Scheduling! Essential scheduling provides the capability to launch a feature on a certain date and time. This allows you to make changes to a feature flag and get approvals ahead of the release date which makes release planning and collaboration easier and more flexible while also increasing the likelihood to release on a target date. This is why Split is a leading enterprise platform.
Your Dark Launch Needs a Light
Don’t launch in the dark. Feature flag management is brighter with insightful data connected to everything you release. Split illuminates potential risks, helping teams make faster release decisions. Ship faster, triage instantly, and avoid risks.
Split is the #1 Enterprise Feature Management Platform with feature flags that don’t share PII with the cloud and ensures your CI/CD aspirations see the light of day.
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Customer Testimonials
“Split provides our team with rich data on every feature, allowing us to make accurate changes in our application”
Miller Dugalech, Director of Digital Management at Quility
“The tool itself is amazing in every sense, but what’s even more amazing is the client vendor relationship! We are tightly connected with our points of contact and could not be happier!”
Enterprise financial services firm
“The system is very reliable, it has a good number of integrations already in place and works nicely with CDPs. The support team is amazing and they answer questions in a very timely manner. Also very helpful are the governance tools.”
Shobeir Seddington, GoPuff
Finserv
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