Split Pricing in 2026 - Why It Vanished, What Harness FME Costs, and Cheaper Picks

If you came here looking for Split’s pricing, here’s the news you need first. Standalone Split pricing no longer exists. Split was acquired by Harness, the deal completed on 11 June 2024, and rebranded Feature Management and Experimentation (FME) - a module inside the wider Harness developer platform. The old split.io/pricing page now 301-redirects to harness.io/pricing. So the reason you can’t find a Split price sheet is that there isn’t one to find anymore.

This is a neutral decode of what that actually means for cost, what carried over, and where the cheaper picks are. Every fact here is from our Harness FME review.

Why the pricing vanished

Split was one of only two flag platforms that took experimentation seriously - LaunchDarkly being the other - pairing feature flags with statistically rigorous A/B analysis. Harness, a well-funded software-delivery platform founded in 2017 by Jyoti Bansal, completed its acquisition and folded Split into its suite as FME.

This is a rebrand, not a sunset. The product is actively developed and the engine that made Split notable is intact. Harness raised a $240M Series E in December 2025 led by Goldman Sachs at a $5.5B valuation, so the parent is solidly resourced. What changed is how you buy it - and that’s the whole pricing story.

What FME actually costs

There’s no published per-tier pricing, so I’ll show you exactly what is and isn’t known.

Plan	Price	Notes
FME Free Plan	$0	Required signup step; exact quota and card requirement not published
Enterprise (FME module)	Contact sales	MAU-based, part of the Harness platform bundle

FME is listed as a module under the Harness Enterprise plan on a contact-sales basis, with no per-tier numbers and no published MAU quota. The historical Split model was MAU-based, and that carries into FME. Third-party market data suggests real deals land across a wide five-to-six-figure annual range depending on MAU, flag count and experimentation modules - but that’s rough market intelligence, not a quotable figure, so treat it as directional only.

In short: you can’t estimate an FME bill from a public page. You have to run a sales conversation. That’s the practical reality of the pricing now.

What carried over, and what didn’t

For existing Split customers, the migration itself was handled well. The back-end is unchanged, so no application code, SDK, Proxy, Synchronizer or Evaluator changes were required. Your integration keeps working.

The friction is around the edges, and it’s worth budgeting time for:

• SSO must be reconfigured as a new Harness SSO connection, set up at least a week ahead.
• Five Split admin API endpoints changed, so any automation scripts need updating.
• Legacy Split permissions must be reconciled with Harness RBAC.
• The front-end moved from app.split.io to app.harness.io.

Nothing catastrophic, but it’s real work, and there’s an underlying repricing risk as a standalone deal becomes a platform-bundle deal at renewal.

The real gotcha: it’s a platform commitment now

The risk here isn’t technical, it’s structural. Split has been absorbed into a larger DevOps suite, and you can no longer buy it on its own. For a small team that just wanted Split’s flags and experiments as a standalone product, that path is closed. You’re now buying into, or migrating into, the Harness platform - and pricing it as a platform commitment, not a point tool.

The experimentation capability is genuinely strong. Split built statistically rigorous experiment analysis and metric-impact measurement driven by feature flags, comparable in ambition to GrowthBook, and it carries into FME with Harness enterprise controls. If you want that inside a managed enterprise platform, it’s a real contender. If you wanted a lightweight standalone flag tool, keep reading.

Cheaper alternatives, and when they win

If FME’s contact-sales, platform-bundle model isn’t the shape you want, two tools give you serious flag capability with more pricing clarity:

• Statsig - if you want experimentation-grade flags without an enterprise suite. Its billing is the inverse of an MAU model: flag and config checks are unlimited and free on every tier, and you pay on analytics events instead. Pro is a flat $150/mo, the free Developer tier gives 2M events with no credit card, and the experimentation engine (built by ex-Facebook engineers) rivals Split’s ambition. The one asterisk is ownership - OpenAI acquired Statsig in September 2025, so factor roadmap uncertainty into a multi-year bet.
• LaunchDarkly - the other deep option, if you accept MAU billing. It’s the deepest pure-flag platform with guarded releases and around 38 SDKs, and like Split it bills on MAU - specifically client-side MAU on your highest-volume context kind, with Vendr’s contract data putting the median around $72,000 a year, ranging $19,500 to $165,700. No self-host, and add-ons stack. You’d pick it for flag depth, knowing the bill mechanics up front.

What neither fully replaces is FME inside a unified Harness DevOps platform, if that integration is what you’re buying. But if you just wanted Split’s flags and experiments, both of these tell you more about their pricing than FME’s contact-sales model does.

The bottom line on Split pricing: the engine that made Split worth using is intact and the migration didn’t break anyone’s code. But Split as a standalone buy no longer exists - it’s a Harness module now, priced and packaged as part of a larger platform. Evaluate it as a Harness commitment, because that’s what it has become.

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Pricing verified against harness.io on 26 July 2026. Feature-flag pricing changes often - we re-verify regularly. FME pricing is contact-sales; the five-to-six-figure range and LaunchDarkly’s $72,000 median are third-party market intelligence and attributed as such.