A closer look at the 2026 Forrester Total Economic Impact™ of LaunchDarkly

LaunchDarkly's commissioning of a Total Economic Impact™ study from Forrester Consulting revealed a 379% return on investment for teams using the platform, primarily due to top-line growth, cost reduction, and risk mitigation. As software teams face increasing pressure to deliver code swiftly and efficiently, traditional testing and release methods are proving inadequate, a gap that LaunchDarkly aims to fill by providing runtime control over software features. By decoupling deployments from releases, LaunchDarkly enables teams to manage feature visibility, progressively roll out code, and instantly disable functionality if necessary, thus allowing for rapid and reliable software delivery without relying on rollbacks or emergency redeployments. The study, based on interviews with six decision-makers, highlighted significant benefits, including a 20% increase in developer testing efficiency and a dramatic reduction in deployment issues from 50% to 3%, alongside a decrease in remediation costs and a 15% improvement in employee effectiveness. The findings underscore LaunchDarkly's potential to transform software development workflows by facilitating smaller, more frequent releases, boosting productivity, and enhancing confidence in production environments, especially as AI-generated code becomes more prevalent.