Chef vs LaunchDarkly comparison

The compared Progress Software and LaunchDarkly solutions aren't in the same category. Progress Software is ranked #12 in CM , with an average rating of 8.3, and holds a 3.3% mindshare in the category. LaunchDarkly is ranked #3 in FM , with an average rating of 8.0, and holds a 18.8% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Progress Software users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of LaunchDarkly users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 5, 2025

Chef and LaunchDarkly compete in the software development and deployment category. Chef tends to have the upper hand due to its cost-effective solutions and robust support, whereas LaunchDarkly excels in delivering advanced features.

Features: Chef offers automation, infrastructure management, and cloud integration with extensive configuration capabilities. LaunchDarkly provides feature flagging, real-time updates, and experimentation options for seamless deployment without service interruption.

Room for Improvement: Chef's complexity in initial setup could be simplified, especially for less experienced users. Enhancing the rollback process would also be beneficial. LaunchDarkly might improve by offering more flexible pricing and enhancing its integration capabilities with third-party tools. Improvements in offline support could further enhance user experience for both products.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Chef’s script-based deployment requires experienced personnel and offers comprehensive support. LaunchDarkly’s cloud-focused deployment is easier and faster, with streamlined service and proactive online resources, facilitating efficient management for teams.

Pricing and ROI: Chef provides a competitive, transparent pricing model appealing to budget-conscious businesses. Its strong support network contributes to ROI through reduced downtime. LaunchDarkly’s advanced features justify its potential higher setup costs, offering substantial ROI gains by improving delivery speed and feature management efficiencies.

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Chef vs. LaunchDarkly

November 2025

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Mindshare comparison

Configuration Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Chef	3.3%
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform	12.2%
Microsoft Configuration Manager	9.5%
Other	75.0%

Configuration Management

Feature Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
LaunchDarkly	18.8%
Harness	23.7%
Optimizely	16.5%
Other	41.0%

Feature Management

Featured Reviews

AkashKamble

Sr MacOS specialist engineer at Cyber24

Enables management of multiple operating systems with a single license

The best feature is that it's a Microsoft product, so if anything goes wrong, we get quick support for anything required. Remote system functionality allows us to sit anywhere and take control of any device via remote management. We can enhance security for clients' laptops with built-in Microsoft Defender, which is available with the Microsoft Intune license. We use it for reporting purposes through endpoint analytics. When pushing scripting, there are two types available: remediation script and reservation script. Through endpoint analytics, you can push defender policies to clients. It helps with reporting, inventory updates, and monitoring tenant status health.

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Walter Ochieng Odhiambo

Software Engineer and Tester at Safaricom

Automation has transformed daily infrastructure work and now frees teams to focus on new challenges

One thing that Chef needs to improve on is making it available in as many languages as possible. There should be a focus on how to make it understandable, not just to infrastructure people, but also to those working in monitoring. How can we ensure that it is part of their daily input? That is something that still has a small missing link. We are almost there, but it can help us achieve outcomes in the future in terms of objectives, not just workflows and visibility. How can we make real-time interactive dashboards more available? Look at what kind of tools can be integrated with them, not just working with the ones like Chef Kitchen and Habitat, but trying to make it even more flexible than what we have right now. On support, I think there should be more focus on how we can achieve AI automations in answering questions for beginners and addressing deep concerns without general manual management.

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reviewer2769948

Staff Software Engineer at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees

Has increased developer confidence by enabling safe production releases using targeted feature toggles

I wish we were using more targeting in our feature toggles and I wish we were using more feature toggles as well as feature toggle dependencies. Making one feature toggle or one set of feature toggles dependent on another one would allow us to turn them all on or turn them all off at one time. For improvements in LaunchDarkly, managing team members and access to those team members was challenging. We could add team members through Terraform and do it programmatically, and then modify it through the user interface. However, once we started modifying things through the interface, we weren't able to go back to using any configuration programmatically for the team members. It made it challenging to orchestrate team member management. The other aspect I wasn't particularly fond of was when they started adding AI to the interface and deployment interface. It reminded me of old school wizards when installing software and simplified the interface too much, removing some of the engineering control I preferred.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Fortunately, now everything is streamlined into a single, unified platform."

"With these improvements, I estimate we've reduced our patching costs by over $100,000 a month, as the MSP previously had to troubleshoot various issues manually."

"Conditional access helps me control uncontrolled access."

"Since implementing this solution, our company has grown substantially, and our talent pool has significantly expanded."

"Previously, SCCM was used as an on-premise solution for clients, but now they are moving to Microsoft Intune as a cloud solution with better security and functions."

"Application deployment and keeping the devices secure no matter where they are, by having this cloud solution — that has been great."

"We use a local Active Directory, but we weren't able to manage all our on-site systems without a solution like Intune, and we needed to deploy software like VPNs and other things. It's seamless now to to this through Intune."

"This product offers an alternative solution to other UEM (Unified Endpoint Management) solutions."

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"The most important thing is it can handle a 100,000 servers at the same time easily with no time constraints."

"The most valuable feature is automation."

"Chef benefited my organization by definitely reducing time because we were provisioning tens of thousands of servers."

"Chef is a great tool for an automation person who wants to do configuration management with infrastructure as a code."

"Chef recipes are easy to write and move across different servers and environments."

"One thing that we've been able to do is a tiered permission model, allowing developers and their managers to perform their own operations in lower environments. This means a manager can go in and make changes to a whole environment, whereas a developer with less access may only be able to change individual components or be able to upgrade the version for software that they have control over."

"Stable and scalable configuration management and automation tool. Installing it is easy. Its most valuable feature is its compliance, e.g. it's very good."

"We have had less production issues since using Chef to automate our provisioning."

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"These features in my current project have helped my team because they allow us to specifically target users to start turning on functionality, we can monitor the behavior and make sure that it's behaving as expected when the feature toggle is turned on, and then we can increase the usage."

"The initial setup is very easy."

"The ability to turn off a flag is crucial when a task is not complete, especially if there is an error in a commit."

"It has really helped during the series of product lines and faster deployment and faster development."

"I appreciate that we can release any feature in production and maintain control over it."

"I like that it offers the ability to control the flags."

"From the development side, it allows us to manage multiple things."

"The setup is easy."

Cons

"Microsoft Intune has potential for improvement; I would like to see a lot more customization in the reporting tools."

"The reporting is subpar. That's the only issue we have with Intune. We use another solution for that purpose."

"The mobile management is good for iPhone and iPad, but the Apple Mac management needs improvement. That is probably because Microsoft does not have low-level access to Apple Mac hardware. If you are doing basic things, it is okay, but if you want to image Apple Macs and do things like that, then Jamf is much better."

"Intune doesn't provide much control over Windows servers. It's something we struggle with."

"We haven't really gone through all the features of Intune. We are just discovering them. Every day, we see a new feature that we want to apply, but what will be great for Intune is to be able to deploy apps in a simple fashion. We should be able to easily install various apps on the Windows platform, iOS, and Android. Currently, we have to write some scripts. It's not as straightforward as we would like it to be. It should be simplified so that we can do it just with three clicks—next, next, finish—without needing to write a script."

"Lacking in features such as Wi-Fi and network security."

"Intune could be improved by organizing different solutions, like Defender and Sentinel, into a single package. This would allow us to focus on security while Microsoft manages other areas. Having a unified solution would drive better management of various sectors. Although the Intune user experience is good, we should continue enhancing it."

"I wanted to check if there is any provision at the Intune level to restrict certain things, such as a website, but unfortunately, that feature is available only in Microsoft Defender. Intune has web filtering capabilities, but they are only useful for protection from malicious websites, whereas we would like to be able to restrict a website. For example, YouTube is a clean website. No one would identify it as a malicious website, but if we want to stop the end-users from going to that website, we have to go for another product, such as Microsoft Defender or another third-party proxy solution. It would be great if this capability is included in Intune."

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"I would like them to add database specific items, configuration items, and migration tools. Not necessarily on the builder side or the actual setup of the system, but more of a migration package for your different database sets, such as MongoDB, your extenders, etc. I want to see how that would function with a transition out to AWS for Aurora services and any of the RDBMS packages."

"Chef has a very steep learning curve, especially for beginners."

"They could provide more features, so the recipes could be developed in a simpler and faster way. There is still a lot of room for improvement, providing better functionalities when creating recipes."

"It is an old technology."

"Third-party innovations need improvement, and I would like to see more integration with other platforms."

"If only Chef were easier to use and code, it would be used much more widely by the community."

"The solution could improve in managing role-based access. This would be helpful."

"In the future, Chef could develop a docker container or docker images."

More Chef cons

"When the system has an excessive number of feature flags, managing them can become cumbersome."

"I have used LaunchDarkly for around two and a half years and I haven't faced any issues with it."

"I strongly believe they need to develop a strategy for handling situations where LaunchDarkly goes down."

"Managing team members and access to those team members was challenging. We could add team members through Terraform and do it programmatically, and then modify it through the user interface. However, once we started modifying things through the interface, we weren't able to go back to using any configuration programmatically for the team members."

"Fetching information about multiple flags in a single action would be beneficial."

"We need experience to use it, and the initial setup can be difficult. Also, sometimes it has breakdowns."

"The feature where one feature flag is dependent on another could be explored more for our usage."

"Right now, no improvements are needed."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Existing E5 license holders for M365, Intune, and Azure, receive a free license."

"The cost is handled through our Office 365 license, so I have yet to be able to compare it directly with other tools in its class."

"Its price is quite okay. I wish they provide certain additional features with the same license."

"Cost is not my department, but the product is included in the E5 license that we already pay for every user, so no additional cost is incurred."

"It's a bit expensive from a licensing perspective, especially as we look to have organizations with tenants across the globe."

"There is a cost benefit of using Microsoft Intune because of the packaging with other Microsoft products."

"In terms of the product price and licensing costs, my company finds the product to be reasonably priced."

"While I don't have access to high-level financial information, I believe we have achieved lower costs with this implementation."

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"Pricing for Chef is high."

"The price is always a problem. It is high. There is room for improvement. I do like purchasing on the AWS Marketplace, but I would like the ability to negotiate and have some flexibility in the pricing on it."

"The price per node is a little weird. It doesn't scale along with your organization. If you're truly utilizing Chef to its fullest, then the number of nodes which are being utilized in any particular day might scale or change based on your Auto Scaling groups. How do you keep track of that or audit it? Then, how do you appropriately license it? It's difficult."

"Purchasing the solution from AWS Marketplace was a good experience. AWS's pricing is pretty in line with the product's regular pricing. Though instance-wise, AWS is not the cheapest in the market."

"Chef is priced based on the number of nodes."

"I wasn't involved in the purchasing, but I am pretty sure that we are happy with the current pricing and licensing since it never comes up."

"When we're rolling out a new server, we're not using the AWS Marketplace AMI, we're using our own AMI, but we are paying them a licensing fee."

"We are able to save in development time, deployment time, and it makes it easier to manage the environments."

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Computer Software Company

10%

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10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

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Financial Services Firm

11%

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11%

Comms Service Provider

11%

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University

17%

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11%

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11%

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Small Business	121
Midsize Enterprise	47
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Also Known As

Intune, MS Intune, Microsoft Endpoint Manager

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Overview

Microsoft Intune provides centralized management of mobile devices and applications, ensuring security, compliance, and productivity through integration with Microsoft services like Microsoft 365 and Azure Active Directory.

Organizations use Intune for managing mobile devices and applications, enhancing security and compliance across platforms. With features like single sign-on, conditional access, and zero-touch deployment via Autopilot, it facilitates efficient operations. Intune's scalability, easy enrollment, and capabilities such as remote wipe support diverse device management, offering robust data protection and efficient operation. Despite its features, improvement areas include reporting, compatibility with non-Microsoft devices, and better support for macOS and Linux devices.

What are the key features of Microsoft Intune?

Seamless Integration: Works with Microsoft 365, Azure Active Directory, and System Center for streamlined management.
Conditional Access: Enhances security with policies that restrict access based on conditions.
Autopilot: Provides zero-touch deployment for setting up new devices efficiently.
Mobile Device Management: Enables control over both personal and corporate devices.
Application Deployment: Facilitates app delivery across a range of devices.

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

Centralized Management: Reduces complexity by managing devices and applications in one place.
Security Enhancement: Protects data with features like remote wipe and compliance monitoring.
Improved Productivity: Enhances efficiency with seamless integration and automation features.
Device Scalability: Supports diverse device management for growing business needs.

In industries such as finance, healthcare, and education, Microsoft Intune is implemented to ensure secure and compliant device management. Companies leverage its capabilities to deploy security policies and manage both corporate-owned and BYOD environments, facilitating a unified approach to data protection and compliance.

Microsoft

Chef, is the leader in DevOps, driving collaboration through code to automate infrastructure, security, compliance and applications. Chef provides a single path to production making it faster and safer to add value to applications and meet the demands of the customer. Deployed broadly in production by the Global 5000 and used by more than half of the Fortune 500, Chef develops 100 percent of its software as open source under the Apache 2.0 license with no restrictions on its use. Chef Enterprise Automation Stack™, a commercial distribution, is developed solely from that open source code and unifies security, compliance, infrastructure and application automation with observability. Chef provides an unequaled developer experience for the Coded Enterprise by enabling users to express infrastructure, security policies and the application lifecycle as code, modernizing development, packaging and delivery of any application to any platform. For more information, visit http://chef.io and follow @chef.

Progress Software

LaunchDarkly is acclaimed for its feature flag management, enabling safer, high-velocity code deployment and precise control over rollouts. Organizations use it to test, deploy, and manage features across user segments, performing canary releases and quick rollbacks without new code deployment. Users praise its robust flag system, real-time updates, detailed targeting, comprehensive analytics, and strong integration capabilities, significantly enhancing development efficiency and productivity.

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Sample Customers

Mitchells and Buzzers, Callaway

Facebook, Standard Bank, GE Capital, Nordstrom, Optum, Barclays, IGN, General Motors, Scholastic, Riot Games, NCR, Gap

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