Pricing
Roughly 10x cheaper than every major flag platform.
Feature flags are a commodity, like electricity. We price them like one — based on what it costs us to deliver, not what we guess your business is worth. 30 days free.
Commodity pricing
We love feature flags — but they're a commodity, like electricity. Nobody wants to negotiate with an electricity salesman to keep the lights on. We charge based on what it costs us to deliver, not on guessing what an MTU or seat is worth to your business.
Fair
Free seats, forever. SSO without a “call us” enterprise tier. Audit logs, segments, schemas — included at every usage level.
Transparent
Priced at the cost of running it, plus margin. (Just how they tell you not to price. But just how we wanted to buy feature flags.) We publish what each meter costs us and what we charge — both numbers, every quarter.
Or use Quonfig fully free and open source.
Store your flags as JSON files in your own git repo, read them straight from disk with the SDK. No account, no connection, no bill. The pricing above is for the hosted service that adds the UI, change-review, and SSE delivery on top.
Side by side
Cheaper at every scale, with the gap growing as you grow.
Apples-to-apples persona pricing. Run the numbers yourself in the estimator below — same calculator we use internally.
| Profile | Quonfig | LaunchDarkly | Flagsmith | ConfigCat |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobbyist 1 server, 200 MAU, 1 seat | $6 | $14 | $0 | $0 |
Early SaaS 6 servers, 5K MAU, 5 seats | $11 | $122 | $45 | $55 |
Scaled SaaS 40 servers, 50K MAU, 15 seats | $122 | $980 | $675 | $225 |
Mid-market 200 servers, 300K MAU, 40 seats | $686 | $5,400 | $1,800 | $1,693 |
Enterprise 1K servers, 2M MAU, 100 seats | $4,351 | $32,060 | Call sales | Call sales |
All Quonfig prices exclude SSO. Most competitors don't offer SSO without a higher tier — add $250/mo for Quonfig SSO at any scale.
What you don't pay for
The list almost no other vendor can write.
Pricing pages get crowded with what's included. We think the more interesting list is what we refuse to charge for.
We don't charge for
- +Per-seat fees. Add your whole team — engineering, product, ops, support.
- +Per-flag fees. Flags, variants, and environments are free.
- +API calls from our own UI. That is our cost, not yours.
- +Bandwidth surcharges. Bundled in request pricing.
- +Pro-tier feature gating. Audit logs, change history, segments, schemas — all included at every usage level.
- +Sales calls to get a number. Every meter is published. Run the calculator.
Things we do charge for separately
- —SSO ($250/mo flat). WorkOS bills us $125/mo per SAML connection plus audit-log streaming and setup overhead. One flat fee, on or off, available at any usage tier — no Enterprise upgrade required.
- —Heavy telemetry volume. Cardinality and write throughput are real ClickHouse costs. We charge $2 per 1M events from event one — most teams stay under the 5M/mo free threshold.
- —Self-hosted edition. Custom pricing because the cost model is different — no infrastructure for us, but support and engineering scale with deployment count.
Estimator
What will Quonfig cost you?
Drag the sliders. The math is the same calculator we use internally — open-source, no surprise multipliers.
Tell us about your app
Drag the sliders. Your estimate updates as you go.
One long-lived SSE connection per process.
Drives frontend requests, tracked contexts, and telemetry volume.
Browser / mobile SDK calls. Each one is one API request and one telemetry event.
Backend telemetry is automatic. Backend SDKs flush one batched aggregate per minute per process — so we charge per server, not per user. Already factored in above.
$250 / month, flat. Available at any usage tier.
Math: calculator.py
Your monthly bill
$11.98
You save $118 / mo — 11x cheaper.
Full platform for 30 days, no charge. Cancel anytime.
How we derive these numbers
- One server connection per backend process.
- Frontend evaluations = MAU × frontend evals/user. Each one is one API request and one telemetry event.
- Backend telemetry: minutely uploads all month, per server — 1/min × 60 × 24 × 30 = 43,200 events / server / month. Doesn't scale with MAU because each payload is {flag, count, variant_counts} regardless of how many users hit it.
- Tracked contexts default to 1× MAU.
- SSO is a flat $250 / month when enabled.
Every meter
What we charge for, exactly.
Eight line items. Seats are unlimited. The first 30 days are free.
| What we charge for | Price |
|---|---|
Platform UI, git storage, auth, basic support. | $5 / month |
Server connections Long-lived SSE streams from backend SDKs. | $0.50 / connection / mo |
Frontend evaluations HTTP requests against /configs and OFREP endpoints. | $5 / 1M requests |
Tracked contexts Distinct context keys observed in telemetry per month. | $2 / 10K contexts |
Telemetry events Inbound telemetry — frontend evals (1 each) + backend SDKs' batched aggregates (~1/min/process). | $2 / 1M events |
Config updates Commits to your workspace. Abuse rule, not COGS-based. | $0.01 / commit |
SSO SAML or OIDC, on or off. Available at any usage level. | $250 / month flat |
Seats Team members. Engineering, product, ops, support. | $0 — unlimited |
Show our work
Priced at the cost of running it, plus margin.
Just how they tell you not to price. But just how we wanted to buy feature flags. We publish what each meter costs us, and what we charge. Both numbers, every quarter.
See our infrastructure costs and the markup on each meter+
| Meter | Our cost | List price | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Server connection | $0.05 / mo | $0.50 / mo | Fly.io performance-1x at ~1,500 conns/machine + Koyeb secondary |
| Frontend request | $0.50 / 1M | $5 / 1M | Fly.io compute + bandwidth at saturation |
| Tracked context | $0.20 / 10K | $2 / 10K | ClickHouse Cloud storage + compute |
| Telemetry event | $0.20 / 1M | $2 / 1M | ClickHouse Cloud batched-insert rate |
| Config update | ~$0.001 each | $0.01 each | Gitea + Postgres + ClickHouse fan-out (markup is abuse-prevention) |
| SSO | $125 / mo | $250 / mo | WorkOS flat rate + audit log streaming + setup overhead — passed through with margin |
| Platform fee | ~$3–5 / mo | $5 / mo | Fixed-cost allocation across active workspaces |
Updated quarterly. Methodology and calculations are public on GitHub.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What's the trial?+
30 days, full platform, no credit card required. Add a payment method whenever you're ready — billing starts the day you do, not the day you sign up.
Why a $5 platform fee if you're “usage-based”?+
It covers the fixed cost of running the app, your git workspace, and customer auth — costs that don't scale with your usage. The fee stays $5 even if your usage is zero, and it filters out tire-kicker workspaces that we'd otherwise carry indefinitely.
How do you stay so much cheaper than the alternatives?+
Most flag platforms price to extract — what's the most we can charge before this customer leaves? We picked a fixed multiple over our infrastructure cost and stuck with it. The result is the same answer for hobby projects and Series D companies: roughly 10x cheaper than the major alternatives, with the gap growing as you grow because we don't tax MAU or gate features behind a Pro tier.
What stops you from quietly raising prices later?+
Nothing legally. Practically: if we change the published markup we lose the entire transparent-pricing positioning that's our wedge. We review the multiplier annually and announce changes 30 days in advance.
Do you charge per MAU?+
Not directly. We charge for distinct context keys we store in telemetry — that scales with users somewhat, but it's a real cost driver (ClickHouse cardinality), not a markup designed to grow with your business. A customer going from 50K to 500K MAU sees their stored-context bill grow by far less than 10x because most users repeat across months.
Can I see the COGS sources?+
Yes. We publish vendor pricing pages (Fly, ClickHouse, WorkOS, Neon) and the assumptions we use to compute per-unit cost. Updated quarterly.
What about self-hosted?+
We offer a self-hosted edition for organizations with strict data-sovereignty requirements. Pricing is custom because the cost model is different (no infrastructure costs for us). Email hello@quonfig.com.
Free for 30 days. $5/month after that.
Full platform, no credit card required. Add billing whenever you're ready.