What is LaunchDarkly?
LaunchDarkly is a comprehensive platform designed for software teams seeking to enhance their product development lifecycle through advanced release automation, robust feature flag management, seamless experimentation, and AI-driven engineering solutions. The platform empowers organizations to quickly and safely deliver new features, monitor and de-risk releases, and make informed, data-driven decisions powered by integrated analytics.
With support for 35+ programming languages and frameworks, LaunchDarkly accommodates teams of all sizes and complexities, from startups to global enterprises. Its capabilities span across experiment management, prompt iteration for AI products, performance monitoring, release health metrics, personalized user targeting, and scalable enterprise collaboration features, enabling teams to innovate with confidence and retain granular control over every deployment.
Features
- Release Automation: Proactively monitor releases and automatically remediate performance issues before they impact customers.
- Feature Flag Management: Enterprise-grade feature management platform enabling targeted rollouts and rapid toggling of features without code redeployment.
- Full-Stack Experimentation: Integrated experimentation tools for A/B and multivariate testing, funnel optimization, mutual exclusion, and real-time results analysis.
- AI Engineering: Accelerate the iteration of AI prompts and model configurations without redeploying, facilitating innovation in AI product development.
- Product Analytics: Built-in analytics to measure the business impact and user engagement of feature releases.
- Multi-Environment Support: Manage and deploy features across multiple projects and environments seamlessly.
- Granular User Targeting: Advanced user and segment targeting based on attributes, behaviors, or external audience data.
- Workflow Automation: Schedule, approve, and automate rollouts and progressive deployments with collaborative workflows.
- Release Health Metrics: Monitor release stability, regression notifications, and auto-remediation capabilities.
- 35+ SDK Integrations: Broad integration support for a wide range of languages and frameworks including mobile, front-end, server, and edge.
Use Cases
- Safely rolling out new features to subsets of users with instant rollback capability.
- Conducting A/B, multivariate, and funnel optimization experiments on live features.
- Managing AI model or prompt iterations in production without redeployment.
- Monitoring software releases for performance, errors, and stability issues.
- Scaling feature management across multiple products, teams, and cloud environments.
- Customizing user experiences based on targeted segments or behavioral data.
- Automating complex release workflows with required approvals and scheduling.
- Accelerating the software release cycle while reducing business and operational risk.
FAQs
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How does LaunchDarkly calculate a month for billing?
LaunchDarkly calculates a month based on your plan's start date. Charges occur monthly or annually depending on your billing cycle, and upgrades are prorated accordingly. -
What are client-side Monthly Active Users (MAU)?
Client-side MAU refers to the number of unique users or devices using your application where LaunchDarkly's client-side SDKs are installed and interacting with feature flags. -
Is there an annual billing option available?
Yes, LaunchDarkly offers annual contracts for the Enterprise plan and annual billing options for the Foundation plan, with automatic discounts applied. -
What is a service connection in LaunchDarkly?
A service connection measures the number of microservices, replicas, and environments connected to LaunchDarkly per month using server-side SDKs. -
Do you provide support for non-profit or academic organizations?
Yes, LaunchDarkly offers discounts for non-profit, academic, or open-source projects. Interested organizations should contact LaunchDarkly for eligibility details.
