LaunchDarkly Reviews & Product Details

Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Oakland, California, LaunchDarkly serves over 5,500 enterprises, including a quarter of the Fortune 500. As the industry’s leading end-to-end feature management platform, LaunchDarkly enables software and AI development teams to de-risk every release, accelerate AI development, remove barriers to experimentation, and increase developer productivity. By separating feature releases from deployments, teams can ship confidently, experiment safely, and continuously optimize software delivery—ensuring governance, control, and velocity at scale. The LaunchDarkly platform is built on four core components that enable teams to release with confidence and drive business impact. Guarded Releases provide real-time monitoring, progressive rollouts, and instant rollbacks, allowing teams to minimize risk and prevent faulty features from impacting users. AI Configurations enable teams to iterate on models and prompts in real time, refining AI behavior without requiring redeployment. Experimentation unifies feature delivery and testing, helping teams analyze feature performance and ship the best-performing variations based on real data. Release Management standardizes best practices at scale, providing automated rollout pipelines, structured governance, and real-time visibility into release health. At its core, LaunchDarkly empowers organizations to move faster while reducing risk. With automated feature rollouts, real-time release insights, and seamless integration with CI/CD workflows and data platforms like Snowflake, development teams can increase productivity, reduce downtime, and bring new innovations to market faster than ever. Organizations that adopt LaunchDarkly gain a competitive edge by accelerating release velocity, minimizing risk, and continuously optimizing customer experiences to maximize business impact.

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Regression detection and automated incident response at the feature level. Connect critical metrics to your release process, so that every change is monitored - even the smallest releases, where issues would previously have been obscured by noise in the wider system metrics.

Track the progression of a feature flag across a series of phases, where each phase consists of one or more environments.

Target groups of contexts individually or by attribute. Contexts are people, services, machines, or other resources that encounter feature flags in your product.

Design experiments that measure business-critical user flows and provide results specific to those product funnels. Measure multi-step user journeys. Determine whether you’re getting the conversions that you want with all your metrics visible in one place.

Feature Flags Explained: Control What Ships | Take Control of Every Release

Guarded Releases Explained | How to Ship Without Fear

AI Configs Explained | Ship AI You Can Trust In Production

With LaunchDarkly Experimentation, you can run A/B tests directly in your release workflow and measure the real impact of every feature you ship. This video demonstrates how to track behavior, conversions, and custom metrics across a range

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Joey T.

Senior Engineering Manager

1/4/2026

"Fast Deployment, Clean UI, But Tricky for Non-Tech Staff"

4.5/5

What do you like best about LaunchDarkly?

I really like that LaunchDarkly is easy to use. I also find its clean UI appealing, although it can sometimes be a bit complicated for non-tech staff. Additionally, I appreciate how it enables fast and easy deployment safely, which is really important for managing feature flags efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about LaunchDarkly?

Sometimes the UI is too complicated for non-tech staff to use. It would be nice if it was easier for sales and support to use to triage and provide custom support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Micaela Durkin of LaunchDarkly

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Thank you for the thoughtful review and for highlighting how LaunchDarkly’s clean UI and fast, safe deployments help your team manage flags efficiently. We appreciate your feedback around making the product more approachable for non-technical teams, and this is an area we continue to focus on. For product managers and other non-engineering roles, we also offer a dedicated course in the LaunchDarkly Academy designed to help them confidently use flags and workflows in their day-to-day work. I've shared the link below.

See how LaunchDarkly improved

DAVID M.

ALM Product Owner

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/6/2026

"Effortless Feature Management with Outstanding Support"

4.5/5

What do you like best about LaunchDarkly?

This tool is very easy to use and, in my opinion, stands out as the best feature flag solution available. The customer support is also excellent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about LaunchDarkly?

The license model could be improved, and I believe it would benefit from a review. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Micaela Durkin of LaunchDarkly

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Thank you for the kind words! We’re happy to hear you find LaunchDarkly easy to use and consider it the best feature flag solution, and it’s great to know our support team has been there when you need them.

Verified User in Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/10/2025

"Safe, Confident Feature Deployment with LaunchDarkly"

4.5/5

What do you like best about LaunchDarkly?

I use LaunchDarkly for launching new features safely, utilizing feature flags and gradual rollout features. The ability to deploy code to production with feature flags turned off, and turning them on gradually increases my confidence in releases by making it easier to rollback in case of any regression. I find percentage rollouts and targeted rollouts, which are enhanced by custom rules and contexts, incredibly useful. These features help in catching bugs and edge cases early before they escalate into incidents. The easy enable and disable functionality of feature flags significantly aids in quickly mitigating issues. Additionally, the initial setup of LaunchDarkly is very easy, contributing to a seamless integration into my workflow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about LaunchDarkly?

There is a bit of a learning curve for the complex features in LaunchDarkly. Understanding rule precedence and creating complex custom rules requires time and practice, which can initially be challenging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Micaela Durkin of LaunchDarkly

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Thank you for sharing your experience! We're happy to hear onboarding and daily use have been smooth and that feature flags help your team manage rollouts and rollbacks effectively.

Tyler M.

Head of Global Support

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/12/2025

"Effortless for Engineering Teams, Clean and Simple Interface"

4.5/5

What do you like best about LaunchDarkly?

Super easy to use for my engineering teams. Clean and simple user face Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about LaunchDarkly?

sometimes i think it could be organized better. We have so many different segments its hard to find without saving the specific link. Could be just an us problem though. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Micaela Durkin of LaunchDarkly

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Thank you for sharing your experience! I’m so glad the platform has been easy for your engineering teams to use, and I appreciate your feedback on segment navigation. We’re here anytime if you’d like to talk through your workflow.

Divya N.

Senior Techanical Specialist

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/18/2025

"Very easy to enable and disable feature flags with access control."

4.5/5

What do you like best about LaunchDarkly?

The ability to enable or disable feature flags at the cluster level.

Fine-grained control to toggle feature flags at the namespace level within a cluster.

Role-based authorization, allowing admins to define who can manage flags in environments like pre-prod and prod.

Support for multiple targeting rules per flag, enabling more complex rollout strategies.

Well-defined default states for flags, ensuring predictable behavior when rules don’t match.

The ability to tag flags by feature or team, making them easier to organize and manage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about LaunchDarkly?

The search experience for feature flags could be improved. Currently, if I need to search for multiple flags, I have to open multiple sessions or tabs. The interface doesn't allow simultaneous searches unless the flags are already tagged or filtered together.

It would be helpful to enable bulk editing or bulk tagging of feature flags across multiple environments.

When a flag has multiple rules, the UI can become cluttered. A more intuitive rule builder or rule grouping would improve usability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is LaunchDarkly solving and how is that benefiting you?

In our project, LaunchDarkly provides critical control over feature enablement across different clusters and namespaces, allowing us to:

Quickly enable or disable features in specific clusters or namespaces without requiring new deployments.

Use RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) to control who can manage feature toggles in environments like dev, pre-prod, and prod, enhancing governance and security.

Integrate with our CI/CD pipelines to automate flag updates as part of the deployment process, reducing manual effort and human error.

Run experiments and A/B tests within targeted namespaces to validate new features before a broader rollout. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Emily Coleman of LaunchDarkly

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Thank you for your thoughtful and detailed feedback, Divya. It sounds like you're making excellent use of role-based access, flag controls, and targeting capabilities. We also appreciate your suggestions on improving the flag search, UI clarity with complex rules, and bulk editing, and we’ve shared your comments with our product team. Keep up your great work, and thanks again for taking the time to leave such a thorough review.

Verified User in Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/5/2026

"Enabling Shipping to Production Much Faster"

5/5

What do you like best about LaunchDarkly?

It is so useful in enabling developers and empowering them to ship faster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about LaunchDarkly?

Once a flag is in, it takes time to clean up and sometimes flags are left in code for ever. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/13/2026

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"Intuitive and User-Friendly with Effortless Flow Chart Design"

4/5

What do you like best about LaunchDarkly?

Its very straightforward, easy to use, and formatted in a way that makes sense. The flow chart style is really easy to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about LaunchDarkly?

Sometimes I feel like the search functionality could be better. I sometimes find that I need to search exactly the write words to get the right flag to come up Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Micaela Durkin of LaunchDarkly

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Thank you for the great review! We’re so glad the UI makes feature control easy to understand and use. We appreciate your feedback on search as well, and flag tags can be a helpful way to surface and manage flags as your list grows. I’ve shared the documentation below.

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Abigail C.

Onsite Implementation Specialist

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/25/2025

"Intuitive and Efficient with Handy Shortcuts"

5/5

What do you like best about LaunchDarkly?

I love the short cuts to copy keys and the ability to cross check which users and orgs we have on each feature. The product is very intuitive to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about LaunchDarkly?

Nothing I can think of! This product is very intuitive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Micaela Durkin of LaunchDarkly

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Thank you so much for the review! I’m glad to hear the shortcuts make your day-to-day work easier, and it’s great that it has been so intuitive. We appreciate you sharing your experience.

Dwight S.

Senior Release Manager

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/5/2025

"LaunchDarkly has greatly increased our ability to deploy and rollback production quickly and easily"

5/5

What do you like best about LaunchDarkly?

LaunchDarkly has allowed us to deploy code into production on a regular basis and then enable release on demand to different segments of our customers (or all of them) on our schedule and not when the code is deployed. If something is wrong, instead of spending costly time rolling things back we can simply turn off the feature flag and hide the error from our customers and then fix it behind the scenes. This allow allows us to test it in production without impacting production. Highly recommend taking the steps needed to enable feature flags in your code and then utlizing LaunchDarkly to quickly manage who can see what in your applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about LaunchDarkly?

The only thing that would be nice to have in LaunchDarkly would be a one click button after something was approved for rollback that would quickly undo what was done. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is LaunchDarkly solving and how is that benefiting you?

LaunchDarkly allows us to go to production quickly, enable a slow rollout to different customer segments, quicker rollbacks than rolling back code, and supportability - if we turn off the feature flag we can enable it for people to then go in and see what the actual problem was and fix any defects in real time without impacting our customers. It is amazing how many things are easier to fix if the problem still exists but it is now hidden vs rolled back and the developer is unable to see the logs / issue in action. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Emily Coleman of LaunchDarkly

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You are truly a LaunchDarkly pro, Dwight. We are glad to hear that LaunchDarkly has helped with your deployment and rollback processes. Thank you for recommending us and for your thoughtful, thorough feedback, as always!

Dylan H.

1/5/2026

"Effortless Beta Testing with LaunchDarkly"

5/5

What do you like best about LaunchDarkly?

I appreciate LaunchDarkly's ease of use, which makes it straightforward to work with. I also find targeting users for betas to be particularly effective, along with the customer support and the ability to flag beta features which enhance user testing, segmentation, and feature releases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about LaunchDarkly?

I wish it was easier to scroll down large lists of users to see submission buttons on large populations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Micaela Durkin of LaunchDarkly

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Thank you for the thoughtful review! We’re love to hear LaunchDarkly’s ease of use and targeting capabilities are helping you run effective beta programs and manage feature releases, and it’s great to know our support team has been part of that experience.