Flagsmith vs Homegrown Feature Flags
In-house feature flags can only take you so far before the risks start to outweigh the benefits. Scale with safety, and keep your builds clean and your teams compliant with Flagsmith.
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If you need to go beyond booleans
Booleans work for simple use cases, but without a UI, they just get lost in your codebase and cause problems down the road
If you’re ready to scale your release management, homegrown flags won’t cut it
“Flagsmith is both very simple and very powerful. It lets us manage our features and capabilities in a seamless and scalable way that lets us focus on what we do best: building security software.” - Dariel Marlow, VP of Cloud Engineering, Delinea
If you want to de-risk releases
Roll out features safely and track impact, so you never lose sight of what’s important
Conduct percentage-based rollouts or only expose features to certain users to test in production before scaling
Easily coordinate across teams with a UI that lets Product and Engineering make changes
If you're scaling
As you scale your operations, a homegrown solution can mean too many engineering hours lost to maintenance
Manually managing dependencies between teams can slow progress and create friction
Having to adjust complex logic for different use cases on an ad-hoc basis opens you up to unnecessary risk
Feature flag management that checks all the boxes
Flexible deployment
Self-host, or deploy to private cloud, for max security and data control.
15+ integrations
Integrate with your analytics, observability, & project mgmt. stack.
SDKs & frameworks
Choose from 15+ popular languages and integrate with any framework.
If compliance is important
Track every change with a comprehensive audit log
Ensure high-stake features can’t be changed without 2 sets of eyes
Determine roles and access based on user profiles
Our data centers
When considering whether to build vs buy your own feature flag solution, you need to weigh up your needs. If you have a cut and dry use case where simple on/off toggles for a few features will do the trick, you likely don’t need a comprehensive feature flagging solution. But if you’re scaling and have heightened security and governance needs, a homegrown solution will quickly end up costing more in terms of risk and maintenance costs. Start by doing an evaluation of your use cases, ensuring you speak to relevant stakeholders and teams.
Teams that are interested in de-risking releases through ring deployments, percentage-based rollouts, and canary releases choose Flagsmith because the complexity of building these capabilities into their own tool far outweighs the benefits.
Flagsmith is a straightforward feature flagging platform built to help engineers continually release without risk. You’re not paying for extra bells and whistles that you don’t need. Many teams choose to build their own tool because they think it will be more cost effective, but in the end, they pay more in maintenance and risk mitigation.
Infrastructure + database support
With custom levels of support—from fully managed to second level—Flagsmith can take care of as much or as little of your hosting infrastructure needs as makes sense for your org.
Flagsmith supports Postgres, MySQL and Oracle database engines; additional database support is also available depending on your requirements.
Kubernetes and OpenShift
Your teams can easily deploy Flagsmith’s containerized platform to Kubernetes via Helm, OpenShift, AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Plus, Flagsmith’s OpenShift Operator makes it easy to deploy into OpenShift infrastructure too.
