Flagsmith vs GO Feature Flag

Both are self-hosted software development - feature toggle projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

Flagsmith and GO Feature Flag are closely matched on maintenance health (84 vs 82). Neither is the safer bet on activity alone, so choose on features, licence and the stack you already run.
FlagsmithGO Feature Flag
Health score 84/100 82/100
Commits (11 mo) 1208 1724
Commits (last 3 mo) 427 496
Stars 6.6k 2.1k
Latest release 24 Sept 2026 8 Sept 2026
Licence BSD-3-Clause MIT
Built with Docker, K8S Go
Typical RAM 1 GB 1 GB

Flagsmith

Dashboard, API and SDKs for adding Feature Flags to your applications (alternative to LaunchDarkly).

84/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 33/40
Releases 25/25
Community 14/20
Momentum 12/15

Commit activity more than 82% of tracked projects; popularity more than 72%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 54 commits 2025-11: 65 commits 2025-12: 65 commits 2026-01: 98 commits 2026-02: 96 commits 2026-03: 126 commits 2026-04: 155 commits 2026-05: 122 commits 2026-06: 164 commits 2026-07: 141 commits 2026-08: 122 commits

GO Feature Flag

Simple, complete, and lightweight feature flag solution (alternative to LaunchDarkly).

82/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 35/40
Releases 25/25
Community 10/20
Momentum 12/15

Commit activity more than 88% of tracked projects; popularity more than 50%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 199 commits 2025-11: 156 commits 2025-12: 167 commits 2026-01: 155 commits 2026-02: 137 commits 2026-03: 139 commits 2026-04: 130 commits 2026-05: 145 commits 2026-06: 154 commits 2026-07: 180 commits 2026-08: 162 commits

How to read this

Everything above is measured, not opinion: commit counts and release dates come from the public repositories, and the health score ranks each project against all 1352 projects we track. Read the full method.

What this comparison deliberately does not do is tell you which has the better feature set. Maintenance health tells you which project will still be receiving security fixes in two years. Decide that first, then compare features on the projects that survive the filter.

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