GrowthBook vs Convex

GrowthBook

Convex

GrowthBook · 15 features

• Approval Flows — Require reviewer approval on flag changes. Enterprise.
• Audit Logs — Full change history. Exportable on Enterprise.
• Dimensions & Slicing — Break down experiment results by user dimensions.
• Edge SDK Support — Cloudflare Workers, Lambda@Edge, Fastly, Akamai EdgeWorkers, Netlify Edge.
• Experiments — A/B/n with CUPED variance reduction + sequential testing.
• Feature Flags — Boolean + string + number + JSON flags with targeting.
• Feature Reviews (PR-style) — Draft → review → approve flag changes.
• Guardrail Metrics — Auto-monitor key metrics during experiments.
• Metric Catalog — Define + reuse metrics across experiments.
• Multi-Armed Bandits — Adaptive traffic allocation. Pro+.
• Safe Rollouts — Guarded gradual rollouts with automatic rollback.
• SSO / SAML — Enterprise SSO for cloud + self-host EE.
• Sticky Bucketing — User stays in variant even after eligibility changes.
• Visual A/B Test Editor — No-code DOM editor for web experiments. Pro+.
• Warehouse Native — Connect your warehouse + run experiments against your events data.

Convex · 18 features

• Actions — Non-deterministic functions for external I/O (fetch, AI APIs, email). Cannot rea…
• Authentication — Convex Auth (built-in) or BYO provider (Clerk, Auth0, Kinde, WorkOS). ID tokens …
• Convex Agents — AI agent framework with durable memory, threads, tool use. Works with OpenAI / A…
• Convex Auth — First-party auth library: passwords, magic links, OAuth, phone — stored in your …
• Convex Components — Reusable backend modules (rate limiter, workflow, aggregate, action-retrier, etc…
• Cron Jobs — Recurring schedules defined in convex/crons.ts. UTC, cron-style patterns.
• Durable Workflows — Long-running multi-step workflows with retries and at-least-once guarantees.
• Exception Reporting — Auto-capture errors to Sentry, Axiom, Datadog.
• File Storage — Upload/download via storage API. Returns storage IDs referenced in documents.
• Full-Text Search — BM25 search index on table fields. withSearchIndex query helper.
• HTTP Actions — Expose public HTTP endpoints for webhooks, OAuth callbacks, third-party integrat…
• Log Streams — Stream function logs to Axiom, Datadog, Sentry. Pro+.
• Mutations — Transactional write functions. All reads + writes in one mutation are ACID; conf…
• Preview Deployments — Every Git branch gets its own isolated deployment. Integrates with Vercel/Netlif…
• Queries — Deterministic read-only TS functions. Automatically cached and re-run when under…
• Real-Time Subscriptions — useQuery auto-subscribes; server invalidates when data a query read changes. No …
• Scheduler — schedule.after / schedule.at — enqueue functions to run later. Durable, survives…
• Vector Search — Native vector index on tables. withIndex + filter fields. Up to 4096 dims.