# GrowthBook vs Unleash

**Leader by Vioscale score:** GrowthBook

| Attribute | GrowthBook | Unleash |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 75.6 (74% (medium)) | 66.5 (74% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 701 | 30 |
| adoption.github_stars | 8,159 | 13,762 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | 363,189 | 21,333 |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"air_gapped":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | Enables product teams to run rigorous tests, safely control feature rollouts, and measure impact by querying data directly from their existing data warehouse. | A platform for managing feature flags and releases in production environments. Provides governance, audit trails, and progressive rollout controls for enterprises, with support for both cloud and self-hosted deployment. |
| features.capabilities | `{"hosting":"both","open_source":true,"sdk_breadth":"broad","audit_approvals":true,"edge_evaluation":true,"experimentation":true,"targeting_rules":true,"local_evaluation":true,"percentage_rollout":true}` | `{"hosting":"both","open_source":true,"openfeature":false,"sdk_breadth":"broad","audit_approvals":true,"code_references":true,"edge_evaluation":true,"experimentation":true,"targeting_rules":true,"local_evaluation":true,"percentage_rollout":true}` |
| integrations.count | 6 | 8 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Rollbar"},{"name":"Figma"},{"name":"Snowflake"},{"name":"BigQuery"},{"name":"Databricks"},{"name":"Redshift"}]` | `[{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Zendesk"},{"name":"ServiceNow"},{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"VictoriaMetrics"},{"name":"Grafana"},{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"Google"}]` |
| language.primary | TypeScript | TypeScript |
| license.spdx | MIT | AGPL-3.0 |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"hqCountry":"NO","primaryMarkets":["US","GB","NO"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Starter","summary":"Free","features":["Unlimited feature flags","Unlimited experiments","Unlimited traffic","Bring your own warehouse","Managed warehouse option","Default environments","Community support"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For individuals or small teams to launch features and experiment quickly.","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"users":"3","projects":"1"}},{"free":false,"name":"Pro","summary":"$40/seat/mo","features":["Unlimited feature flags","Unlimited experiments","Unlimited traffic","Visual editor","Multi-arm bandits","Safe rollouts","Customizable dashboards","Advanced permissioning","Power calculator","Premium support","Sticky bucketing","Custom experiment fields & metadata","Sample ratio mismatch detection","Bayesian statistics","Sequential testing","CUPED / Variance reduction","Multiple testing corrections","Experiment templates","Holdouts","Custom pre-launch checklists","Custom experiment dashboards","Insights dashboard","Remote configuration","Percentage rollout","Instant kill switch","Advanced targeting","Prerequisite targeting","Flag lifecycle management","Stale flag management","Flag archiving","Flag change history & audit log","Code references","Feature value simulation","Metric explorer","Fact table explorer","Data source explorer","Custom SQL explorer","AI data analyst (beta)","Custom private dashboards","Proportion metrics"],"components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"seat","amount":40,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For small and mid-sized teams with advanced statistics and analytics.","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"users":"50","projects":"3","cdn_requests":"2M/mo","cdn_bandwidth":"20GB/mo"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing","features":["Unlimited feature flags","Unlimited experiments","Unlimited traffic","Custom environments","Ramp schedules","Approval workflows","Advanced access control","SSO & SCIM provisioning","Exportable audit logs","99.99% uptime SLAs","Optimizations for large datasets","Dedicated support & training","Custom OIDC","Advanced permissioning","Custom roles","No access roles","Team permissioning","SCIM provisioning","Dedicated team support channel","Onboarding & training","Roadmap acceleration","1 hour first response time (outage)","2 hours first response time (degraded)"],"description":"For teams running experimentation and releasing features at scale.","contactSales":true},{"free":true,"name":"Open Source","summary":"Free, open-source","features":["Unlimited feature flags","Unlimited experiments","Unlimited traffic","Bring your own warehouse","Default environments","Community support"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Launch feature flags and experiments easily.","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"projects":"1"}}],"summary":"Free tier available. Pro plan: $40/seat/mo. Enterprise custom pricing.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.growthbook.io","retrievedAt":"2026-08-05T13:26:24.727Z","startingPrice":{"amount":40,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Hosted","summary":"$75/user/month, cancel anytime","commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"seat","amount":75,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false}],"summary":"$75/user/month, 14-day free trial","currency":"USD","freeTier":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.getunleash.io/plans/enterprise-payg","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T12:12:23.756Z","freeTrialDays":14,"startingPrice":{"amount":75,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | no |
| pricing.model | freemium | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | free | high |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | 54 | 6 |
| release.history | 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| 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|
| reliability.sla_pct | 99.99 | 99.99 |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.fedramp | - | yes |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | yes | - |
| security.iso27001 | yes | yes |
| security.scorecard | - | 6.2 |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=npm&package_name=%40growthbook%2Fgrowthbook-react&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | `{"count":3,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=npm&package_name=unleash-server&per_page=100","last_12m":3,"max_severity":"HIGH"}` |

## Capabilities (Feature Flag Software)

| Capability | GrowthBook | Unleash |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | Cloud + self-hosted | Cloud + self-hosted |
| **Rollout** |  |  |
| Percentage rollout | ✓ | ✓ |
| Attribute / segment targeting | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Evaluation** |  |  |
| Local evaluation (no call home) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Edge / CDN evaluation | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Experimentation** |  |  |
| Built-in A/B experimentation | ✓ | ✓ |
| Experiment stats engine | - | - |
| **Standards** |  |  |
| OpenFeature-compliant provider | - | ✗ |
| **Governance** |  |  |
| Audit logs + change approvals | ✓ | ✓ |
| Stale-flag / code reference detection | - | ✓ |
| **Coverage** |  |  |
| SDK breadth | Broad | Broad |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| Self-hostable OSS core | ✓ | ✓ |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T17:22:07.488Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*