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LaunchdarklyPackaging change · Metric change · Feature change · Trial change · Oct 1 → Jan 1, 2025

Launchdarkly Introduces Guardian Tier for Enhanced Release Monitoring and Management at Scale

Verified Jan 12, 2026Software Development & TestingDirection: up
The changeContexts — reworded.
Before · Oct 1contexts
After · Jan 1client-side MAU
reworded
4 changes2 capturesOct 1, 2024 → Jan 1, 2025

What happened

Between the Oct 1, 2024 and Jan 1, 2025 captures of Launchdarkly's pricing page, Pulse recorded 4 changes: Terminology changed from 'contexts' to 'client-side MAU' (Monthly Active Users) throughout pricing page and feature descriptions; Release monitoring renamed to Release Assistant in Enterprise plan; Trial messaging changed from 'Every account gets a 14-day trial' with Monthly/Yearly toggle (Save up to 16%) to 'Simple. Predictable. No hidden fees.' with simplified billing display; Guardian tier introduced - Monitor and guard your releases at scale with Guarded Releases, Application Performance Thresholds, Release Auto-Remediation, and Release Health Metrics. Pulse files it as a packaging change (metric change, feature change, trial change, new plan) with an upward direction. Pulse's latest capture (Aug 10, 2026) lists Foundation at $10.

Launchdarkly's previous recorded change was "Launchdarkly Transitions to Usage-Based Pricing Model, Introducing Free Developer Plan and Discontinuing Seat-Based Plans" (Q3 2024). Launchdarkly has been tracked since 2023-11-14.

In the same window Statsig and Amplitude also changed their Software Development & Testing pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.

  • — · Pricing modelReworded
    contextsclient-side MAU
  • Enterprise · FeatureRenamed
    Release monitoringRelease Assistant
  • — · TrialTrial change

    Trial messaging changed from 'Every account gets a 14-day trial' with Monthly/Yearly toggle (Save up to 16%) to 'Simple. Predictable. No hidden fees.' with simplified billing display

  • Guardian · PlanAdded

    BeforeNot listed

    After- Monitor and guard your releases

Values as written on Launchdarkly's public pricing page in the two captures Pulse compared; where the page states no number, the cells give the wording before and after.

Evidence

The two captures Pulse compared

Full-page captures of Launchdarkly's pricing page (launchdarkly.com) from Oct 1, 2024 and Jan 1, 2025; the change is marked on the page, where "contexts" becomes "client-side MAU".

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Launchdarkly, the last 90 days

Full history
  1. Q3 2025improvedLaunchDarkly bills Foundation on both service connections and client-side MAU, and adds usage-priced observability add-ons
  2. Q2 2025decreaseLaunchDarkly cuts its client-side MAU rate to $10 per 1k and prices it separately from service connections
  3. Q1 2025packagingLaunchdarkly Increases Developer Plan Experimentation Limit by 10x and Lowers Foundation Plan Pricing to $3/mo per 1k MAU
  4. Q4 2024packagingLaunchdarkly Introduces Guardian Tier for Enhanced Release Monitoring and Management at Scale · this change
  5. Q3 2024packagingLaunchdarkly Transitions to Usage-Based Pricing Model, Introducing Free Developer Plan and Discontinuing Seat-Based Plans

Across Software Development & Testing in the same window

All Software Development & Testing changes
  1. StatsigJan 12Statsig Removes Warehouse Native Plan, Streamlining Pricing Tiers and Enhancing Developer Plan Features for Improved Clarity and Value
  2. AmplitudeJan 10Amplitude Introduces AI-Powered Recommendations and Real-Time Streaming to Enhance Enterprise and Growth Plans
  3. StatsigJan 12Statsig Enhances Pro Plan Overage Pricing Presentation for Improved Clarity and Transparency
  4. StatsigJan 12Statsig Doubles Developer Free Tier Event Limit to 2M Monthly Events, Enhancing Access to Product Analytics Data Retention
  5. StatsigJan 12Statsig Enhances Advanced Analytics with Session Analytics and User Profiles, Enabling Deeper Insights into User Behavior

Questions about this change

Did Launchdarkly raise prices in January 2025?

No list-price increase was recorded between Oct 1, 2024 and Jan 1, 2025. The change Pulse detected was a packaging change: metric change, feature change, trial change, new plan.

What changed on Launchdarkly's pricing page between Oct 1, 2024 and Jan 1, 2025?

Pricing model: contexts → client-side MAU, reworded; Enterprise feature: Release monitoring → Release Assistant, renamed; Trial messaging changed from 'Every account gets a 14-day trial' with Monthly/Yearly toggle (Save up to 16%) to 'Simple. Predictable. No hidden fees.' with simplified billing display; Guardian plan: Not listed → - Monitor and guard your releases, added. Pulse compared the captures it took on Oct 1, 2024 and Jan 1, 2025; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.

How often does Launchdarkly change its pricing?

Pulse recorded 1 other pricing-page change for Launchdarkly in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Launchdarkly Transitions to Usage-Based Pricing Model, Introducing Free Developer Plan and Discontinuing Seat-Based Plans" in Q3 2024; Launchdarkly has been tracked since 2023-11-14.