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Pricing teardowns

LaunchDarkly Pricing in 2026: The Real 30-Day Bill

LaunchDarkly's 2026 pricing no longer charges per seat. The paid Foundation plan meters two lines: $10 per service connection per month plus $8.33 per 1,000 client-side monthly active users (MAU). The MAU meter bills your highest-volume context kind, so a 500,000-device app pays $4,165 a month on MAU alone even with far fewer logged-in users. A worked mid-size bill lands near $4,565 a month, about 91% driven by the MAU meter. Seats are free; the meter that hurts is client-side MAU.

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Infrastructure economics

Firebase Pricing in 2026: What You Actually Pay

Firebase pricing in 2026 is free to start (Spark plan: 50K Firestore reads, 20K writes, and 20K deletes per day, 1 GiB stored), then pay-as-you-go on Blaze at $0.06 per 100K reads, $0.18 per 100K writes, and $0.02 per 100K deletes. A typical 5,000-DAU app costs about $12/month, but there is no hard spending cap, so one unbounded query or a looping Cloud Function can turn a $12 bill into thousands overnight.

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