The seat meter is the whole story
Unleash’s Pay-As-You-Go plan is US$75 per seat per month. Not per developer, per seat. The PM who checks rollout status, the designer who toggles a flag in staging, the support engineer who looks up why a customer sees the old UI: US$75 each, every month. A team of five pays US$375/month; a team of ten pays US$750. The bill is a headcount tax, and it points in exactly one direction as you grow.
RocketFlag charges A$79/month for the whole team. Invite everyone: flags only work as a practice when the entire team can see them, which is precisely why we don’t charge per person.
To their credit, Unleash barely meters requests: 53 million API requests a month are included on cloud, US$5 per million after. Their meter is people, not traffic.
Where Unleash genuinely wins
Unleash is real open source with a large community, and you can run it yourself: cloud, self-hosted or hybrid. If your compliance posture or data-residency rules say “our infrastructure”, Unleash is the better choice and no flat price changes that. The per-seat price also buys enterprise depth RocketFlag doesn’t have: SSO, RBAC, change requests with approvals, a 99.99% SLA, and built-in experimentation with variants.
We’re the opposite trade: managed only, flags only, one price. Evaluations served in milliseconds from regions close to your users, and Caretaker keeping your flag list honest with AI-agent removal prompts.
Run the numbers at your actual headcount
Count everyone who’d ever need to see a flag, not just the engineers writing the code. Multiply by US$75, then look at our pricing page, where the number is A$79 and doesn’t have a multiplication sign in it. If you’d genuinely restrict access to one or two people, or you’re self-hosting, Unleash is good software and the honest pick. If the seat count is what’s driving the bill, that’s the meter we removed.
