Split vs. LaunchDarkly
LaunchDarkly and Split both offer feature flagging capabilities for accelerating development and mitigating release risk. Only Split provides the data privacy, feature-level monitoring, and experimentation best practices enterprises need to securely and effectively deliver impactful products. Compared to LaunchDarkly, Split’s features are unmatched! If you’re looking for a Launchdarkly alternative, check out this side-by-side comparison table and judge for yourself.
Feature Management & Control
Feature Flagging
Feature Flag Essentials
Decouple deploy from release, so you can deploy at any time and release when ready.
ADVANCED FEATURE FLAGGING
Use sophisticated audience targeting and percentage-based rollouts to focus exposure and limit the blast
SCHEDULING
“Set it and forget it” scheduled changes: flag changes happen exactly when planned, without requiring late night logins for submitter or approver.
Approval Flows
Perform optional peer-review approvals or mandatory approvals including designated approvers to support separation of concerns.
Secure Client SDK Architecture
Client SDK makes decisions locally, never sends PII to vendor cloud for evaluation.
STREAMING ARCHITECTURE
Decouple deploy from release, so you can deploy at any time and release when ready.
MULTI-ENVIRONMENT FLAG CONTROL
Maintain separate targeting rules for test, staging, production or any other environment in your SDLC.
TRIGGER FLAG STATE CHANGE FROM EXTERNAL SYSTEM
Allow an external system to change state of flag if issue is detected.
BROAD SDK SUPPORT
Broad SDK Support Native support for most major programming languages + support for alternate usage pattern where no SDK exists.
Feature Management & Control
Remote “Dynamic” Configurations
No-Code Dynamic Configuration
Enable non-technical users to enter dynamic configuration values as name:value pairs, instead of requiring them
Feature Management & Control
Monitoring
Calculate All Metrics for All Rollouts
Avoid blind spots and reduce the risk of local optimizations that hurt organizational goals.
Feature-Level Metrics Alerts
End incidents faster with flag-specific causal analysis that determines which flag is causing issues.
PROGRESSIVE DELIVERY SUPPORT
Address both the control and observability objectives of progressive delivery.
Feature Measurement & Learning
Experimentation
RIGOROUS AND PROVEN STATISTICAL APPROACH
Is there a rigorously developed statistical engine behind the experimentation features?
Add Metrics Without Disruption
Add a metric anytime without being forced to start
Ingest Events Directly From Amazon S3
Bulk import millions of events per minute when needed for metrics calculation. Can be in near real-time or after the fact. Vastly more efficient than inserting via individual API calls.
SUPPORT FOR TRIGGER TESTING
Trigger tests begin when a user reaches a specific part of your page or app. Ensures the experiment focuses on users who actually could be influenced by the feature.
Ready-To-Share Results in Multiple Formats
TRAFFIC ALLOCATION
Team & Organizational Features
Manage Permissions at Group/Team Level
Streamline administration of large groups, eliminating the need to set and maintain each user’s permissions by hand.
SCIM SUPPORT
Map group membership in your IdP to groups in the application, retaining control of provisioning and permissions control within your existing practices.
PRE-ASSIGN USERS TO GROUPS/TEAMS AT INVITE TIME
If not using SCIM, Users added via invite arrive with entitlements and permissions pre-established before
Integrate With Servicenow To Leverage Existing Approval Processes
Ready-To-Share Results in Multiple Formats
KANBAN-STYLE FLAG DASHBOARD
View the status of all flags, grouped by lifecycle stage, in one place, with rich at-a-glance visualizations.
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.
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
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.
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