Unleash OSS and Unleash Enterprise comparison

Unleash offers both an open-source (OSS) version and an Enterprise version.

Unleash OSS is a great way to explore Unleash and experiment with feature flags. It gives you the core feature set of Unleash, but is designed for small-scale deployments with a limited number of server instances and direct SDK connections.

For production workloads, we recommend Unleash Enterprise. With our Enterprise plans, you have access to the full feature set, including higher resource limits, advanced governance, automation, observability, integrations for identity and compliance, and access to Unleash Edge for scalable SDK traffic.

Unleash Enterprise is suitable regardless of your team size, from small teams just getting started to large organizations running feature flags across thousands of services. It is designed to scale with you so you only pay for what you need, with flexible plan options from monthly pay-as-you-go to annual contracts, and flexible deployment options from self-hosted to hybrid to fully managed cloud.

This page highlights the key differences between Unleash OSS and Unleash Enterprise.

Core feature management

Capability	OSS	Enterprise
Feature flags	✅	✅
Feature flag or variant dependencies	❌	✅
Feature flag naming pattern and link templates	❌	✅
Projects	1	Unlimited
Environments	2	Unlimited
Private or protected projects	❌	✅
SDKs and APIs	✅	✅
Activation strategies and stickiness	✅	✅
Playground	✅	✅
Release templates	❌	✅
Automated release progression with safeguards	❌	✅

Governance and security

Capability	OSS	Enterprise
Role-based access control	Basic roles	Project roles, custom roles, user groups
Change requests (approval workflows)	❌	✅
Service accounts	❌	✅
Single sign-on (SSO)	❌	✅
SCIM and automated provisioning	❌	✅
Login history	❌	✅
Audit log	Basic	Advanced (including IP address data) with up to 2 years retention
Event timeline	❌	✅
Private or protected projects	❌	✅
Signals and actions	❌	✅
Banners	❌	✅

Observability and analytics

Capability	OSS	Enterprise
Analytics	❌	✅
Impression data	✅	✅
Network and data usage	❌	✅
Edge observability	❌	✅
Access logs	❌	Available as an add-on
IP-based restrictions	❌	Available as an add-on

Integrations, automation, and scaling

Capability	OSS	Enterprise
Export / import	✅	✅
Terraform provider	✅	✅
Webhooks and integrations	✅	✅
Multi-region Enterprise Edge	❌	Available as an add-on
Real-time streaming via Edge	❌	✅
Server topology	Suited for 1-4 instances	Designed for large-scale, multi-instance deployments
Connected SDK clients	Limited by direct API and database load	Scales to thousands of connected SDKs with Unleash Edge

Hosting and support

Capability	OSS	Enterprise
Self-hosting	✅	✅
Unleash Cloud (fully managed SaaS solution)	❌	✅
Support and SLAs	Community only	Standard and Premium Support and uptime commitment