Pricing that actually makes sense: Why we don't charge per seat or MAU
Most feature flag platforms have a dirty little secret: their pricing gets expensive fast. They charge per Monthly Active User (MAU), per seat, per project, or all three at once. Scale your app to 100k users? Your bill explodes. Add more developers to your team? More charges. Ship two products from the same workspace? Pay twice.
It's pricing that punishes growth - the exact opposite of what a developer tool should do.
Our philosophy is different: a flat monthly price covers your entire workspace, and you only pay more when your actual usage grows beyond that.
What's wrong with how everyone else prices feature flags
Per-seat pricing turns collaboration into a cost centre. Every developer, every designer, every PM who needs to see which features are live - each one is a line item on your invoice. Teams end up gatekeeping access to their own tooling.
MAU-based pricing punishes your success. LaunchDarkly charges $10 per 1,000 client-side MAUs per month. A 500,000 MAU app pays $5,000/month in MAU charges alone - before any service connection fees, experimentation add-ons, or support costs.
Per-project pricing penalises healthy architecture. Statsig charges $150/month per project. A team running a main product, an admin panel, and a marketing site needs three separate subscriptions just to use the same feature flag platform across their work.
Flag-count pricing is the strangest model of all. ConfigCat's free plan gives you 10 flags - enough for a proof of concept, not a real product. Unlimited flags require their $325/month Smart plan.
None of these models align the cost with the value delivered. They charge for growth signals and team size instead of actual usage.
How Supaship prices
Free forever - for real
Every account starts on our Free Forever plan with no credit card required:
- 1 million events per month - one event = one flag evaluation, nothing more complex than that
- Unlimited feature flags - create as many as your product needs
- Unlimited team members - your whole team, from day one
- All core features - targeting, segments, percentage rollouts, and API access included
The free tier is not a trial. It's not a "limited" version designed to frustrate you into upgrading. A solo developer or an early-stage team with low traffic can use Supaship in production indefinitely for free.
Pro plan - $30/month for your entire workspace
When you outgrow 1M events, the Pro plan is $30/month. That covers everything in your workspace - all projects, all team members, all flags - with 3 million events included:
| Usage | Monthly cost |
|---|---|
| Up to 1M events | $0 (Free plan) |
| Up to 3M events | $30 (Pro plan flat) |
| 5M events | $30 + $60 = $90 |
| 10M events | $30 + $210 = $240 |
After 3M events, it's $0.03 per 1,000 additional events - a simple, predictable rate with no tiers, no step changes, and no surprises.
To put this in context: a competitor charging per MAU would bill $5,000/month for a 500,000 MAU app. The same app on Supaship, evaluating flags a few times per session, typically generates 1–3M events/month - covered entirely by the free or base Pro plan.
Why workspace-level pricing matters
Every other platform on the market either charges per project or per seat. Neither makes sense for growing teams.
With Supaship, one Pro plan covers every project in your workspace: your main product, your admin dashboard, your mobile API, your marketing site. Add a new project tomorrow - it's included. Add five more engineers to the team - still $30/month.
The bill doesn't grow because you're building more things. It grows only because more users are evaluating more flags - which means your product is succeeding.
The real cost comparison
Here's what the same team pays across platforms at different scales:
Small team, 50k MAU, 2 projects:
| Platform | Monthly cost |
|---|---|
| LaunchDarkly | ~$580 (service connections + MAU) |
| Statsig | $300 (2 × $150/project) |
| ConfigCat Smart (unlimited flags) | $325 |
| Unleash Cloud | $375+ (5-seat minimum) |
| Supaship Pro | $30 |
The Supaship bill is the same regardless of how many projects you add or how many team members join. It scales only with the one thing that should drive your cost: actual flag evaluation volume.
No dark patterns, no upgrade pressure
When you approach your monthly limit, we'll notify you with your projected Pro cost based on your actual usage. The upgrade takes seconds and can be reversed anytime. There's no annual commitment.
Ready to see what your feature flag bill should actually look like? Start free on Supaship - 1M events/month, unlimited flags, no credit card required.
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