Appwrite vs Statsig
Open-source BaaS for building full-stack apps
vs. Feature management + experimentation + analytics — ex-Facebook team
Pricing tiers
Appwrite
Self-Hosted
Run Appwrite on your own infrastructure. MIT licensed — no usage limits.
$0 base (usage-based)
Cloud Free
Managed cloud. Hard caps: 1 team member, 1 database per project.
Free
Cloud Pro
From $15/member/month. 2 TB bandwidth, 150 GB storage, 200k MAU, 3.5M executions, unlimited databases + team members.
$15/mo
Cloud Scale
$599/month flat for the org. Higher included usage + advanced security. Deprecated in some regions — check.
$599/mo
Enterprise
Custom pricing. SOC 2, HIPAA (on request), dedicated infra, SLAs.
Custom
Statsig
Developer (Free)
2M events/mo. Unlimited flag checks + configs. 50K session replays. 1-year retention. Unlimited seats.
Free
Pro
$150/month. 5M events included ($0.05 per 1K additional). Advanced experimentation + analytics. Unlimited retention.
$150/mo
Enterprise
Custom. Warehouse Native deploy. Outgoing data integrations. SSO, RBAC, HIPAA. Priority support.
Custom
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing free on Appwrite vs developer on Statsig.
| Metric | Appwrite | Statsig |
|---|---|---|
| bandwidth gb month | 5 GB/month | — |
| databases per project | 1 databases | — |
| function duration s | 30 seconds | — |
| function executions | 750000 exec/month | — |
| mau | 75000 users/month | — |
| storage gb | 2 GB | — |
| team members | 1 members | — |
Features
Appwrite · 13 features
- Account (Auth) — User authentication: email/password, magic URLs, phone OTP, anonymous, 30+ OAuth…
- Avatars — Generated avatars, country flags, credit-card icons, QR codes, favicons.
- Databases — NoSQL collections with attribute types, indexes, permissions per document/collec…
- Events System — Unified event bus: subscribe in Functions, Webhooks, Realtime using event string…
- Functions — Serverless functions in 13+ runtimes (Node, Python, Go, Ruby, PHP, Dart, Deno, S…
- Messaging — Multi-channel messaging: Push (FCM/APNs), SMS (Twilio/Vonage/Msg91), Email (Mail…
- Migrations — Import from Firebase, Supabase, NHost, or another Appwrite project.
- Permissions (ACLs) — Per-document / per-collection ACLs: Role.user(), Role.team(), Role.any(), Role.g…
- Realtime — WebSocket subscriptions to events: database changes, auth, storage, function exe…
- Sites — Deploy static and SSR frameworks (Next, Nuxt, SvelteKit, Astro, Remix) direct fr…
- Storage — File buckets with access control, auto-transforms (image preview), antivirus, en…
- Teams — Group users with shared access + roles. Used for row-level permissions on resour…
- Webhooks — HTTP callbacks on any Appwrite event. Signed with x-appwrite-webhook-signature.
Statsig · 14 features
- Alerts — Metric threshold + anomaly alerts to Slack/PagerDuty.
- Autocapture — Zero-config click + pageview tracking.
- Dynamic Configs — JSON config with targeting — remote config.
- Experiments (A/B/n) — Full-factorial + sequential + holdouts. Bayesian + frequentist stats.
- Feature Gates — Boolean flags with targeting rules, gradual rollout, custom attributes.
- Layers — Mutually-exclusive experiment containers for traffic budget management.
- Metrics Catalog — Define reusable metrics with guardrails.
- Outgoing Data Sync — Sync events to warehouses. Enterprise.
- Product Analytics — Funnels, retention, segments, dashboards — integrated with flags.
- RBAC + SSO — Role-based access, SAML SSO. Enterprise.
- Segments / Audiences — Reusable targeting groups.
- Session Replay — DOM + network replays, 50K/mo free.
- Warehouse Native — Enterprise: run Statsig in your data warehouse (Snowflake/BQ/Databricks/Redshift…
- Web Analytics — Pageviews, sources, devices, Core Web Vitals.
Developer interfaces
| Kind | Appwrite | Statsig |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | Appwrite CLI | — |
| SDK | Android SDK (Kotlin), Apple SDK (Swift), Dart Server SDK, Deno SDK, Flutter SDK, Kotlin Server SDK, .NET Server SDK, Node.js Server SDK, PHP Server SDK, Python Server SDK, React Native SDK, Ruby Server SDK, Swift Server SDK, Web SDK (browser) | go-sdk, statsig-android, statsig-erlang, statsig-ios-client-sdk, statsig-java-server-sdk, statsig-js (browser), statsig-node-server-sdk, statsig-python-core |
| REST | REST API | Events Ingest API, Statsig Console API |
| GRAPHQL | GraphQL API | — |
| MCP | Appwrite MCP Server | — |
| OTHER | Realtime WebSocket | Webhooks |
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