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Unleash

155Judge labels
11First choices
16Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
1Category
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
13% in Feature flags for mid-market buyers
Rank 4 of 31 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 8% of its 50 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at mid-market.
In feature flags · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Unleash for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Feature flagsDeveloper platform13%4 of 318%50accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Unleash yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Unleash across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.510102
GPT-5.4 mini11002
Gemini 3.5 Flash03014
Perplexity Sonar02204
Grok 4.1 Fast15006
Mistral Small01214
DeepSeek V4 Flash15006
Llama 4 Maverick00303
Qwen 3.7 Flash13015
Kimi K213206
GLM 4.7 FlashX03115
MiniMax M2.503003

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct24 labels1
Paraphrase22 labels2
Comparative33 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained26 labels7
Scale-constrained21 labels1
Negative29 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative155 labels in all, every segment counted; 11 of the 13 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“For true budget constraints, self-hosting Unleash or using the free tier of Flagsmith are often the most cost-effective choices” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Feature flags · budget prompt · first choice
“Unleash is the industry leader for open-source feature flags... It will be the cheapest long-term solution possible.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Feature flags · budget prompt · first choice
“Start with Unleash self-hosted – it's unlimited, battle-tested, and scales free.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Feature flags · budget prompt · first choice
“Best budget-friendly self-hosted option: Unleash” GPT-5.4 mini · Feature flags · budget prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“its self-hosted version can be complex to set up and maintain ... Some users report scalability and performance issues at high traffic volumes” Mistral Small · Feature flags · negative prompt · hard negative
“OSS Edge deprecation in December 2026 ... Uses polling architecture by default; streaming is still in beta.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Feature flags · negative prompt · hard negative
“Platforms like Unleash and Flagsmith offer free, open-source self-hosted versions... present two major "buyer beware" scenarios” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Feature flags · negative prompt · soft negative
“Why to be cautious: Operational Overhead and Architectural Limits.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Feature flags · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Unleash, over the 155 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Unleash was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
LaunchDarkly145 of 15554Not in the top three
Flagsmith118 of 1559Not in the top three
Statsig94 of 15510Not in the top three
ConfigCat83 of 15531Not in the top three
GrowthBook79 of 1556Not in the top three
Split70 of 1551Not in the top three
PostHog56 of 15510Not in the top three
DevCycle21 of 1552Not in the top three
Optimizely18 of 1550Not in the top three
Harness FME16 of 1550Not in the top three
A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Unleash. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 129 of the 155 answers that named Unleash and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

harness.io82
growthbook.io77
getunleash.io71
amplitude.com55
statsig.com51
launchdarkly.com48
toolradar.com45
guptadeepak.com44
configcat.com43
flagsmith.com36

552 of the 552 domain citations in answers naming Unleash came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Unleash

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Unleash; a claim can dispute any of them.
Unleash (OSS, self‑hosted) 1Unleash (self-hosted) 1
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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Unleash's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Unleash, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at unleash.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.