Flagsmith vs. rConfig Comparison Chart

Flagsmith is the bucketing engine for your experiments. Your analytics stack stays where it is. Create a multivariate flag, define variants with percentage weights, and Flagsmith splits traffic deterministically. Bucketing is calculated per identity, so a user gets the same variant on every evaluation until you change the weights. Use segments to restrict a test to the users you want to target: a plan tier, a region, or a beta cohort. And you can use the same mechanism to run beta programmes for early feedback. Flagsmith does not collect events or compute significance. Instead, send the variant name to the analytics platform you already use. Flagsmith has built in integrations for Amplitude, Mixpanel, Segment, Heap and Rudderstack, or push to your own pipeline over webhooks. One source of truth for metrics instead of two. Works the same on our cloud, your private cloud, or on-premise.

Wrap a feature in a flag, ship the code, and decide later who sees it. The same flag can hold a different state in each environment, so nothing has to be redeployed to change behaviour in production. Targeting capabilities include boolean flags, multivariate flags, remote config values, identities with traits, segments built from rules on those traits, and percentage rollouts for canary releases. For evaluation, Flagsmith supports server-side SDKs run in local evaluation mode, resolving flags in-process with no network call per check. The Edge API serves client and mobile SDKs from the nearest geographical region. Offline mode covers environments with no outbound connectivity. 15+ open source SDKs, including TypeScript, Python, Java, C#, Go, Ruby, PHP, Swift, Kotlin and Flutter. Governance features include audit logs, role-based access control, change requests with approvals, scheduled changes, SAML SSO and SCIM provisioning. Automation is possible using the REST API, Terra