Harness

harness.io
DevOps
Weekend Project

AI for DevOps, Testing, AppSec, and Cost Optimization

How to Replace Harness

Overview

Harness delivers intelligent AI automation for software delivery, enabling teams to ship code faster, safer, and smarter. The platform combines CI/CD, testing, security, and cost optimization capabilities with AI-powered automation and developer self-service.

Features

34 features across 21 categories

Administration(2)

Custom Roles

Define and configure roles with tailored permissions to match your organization's unique workflows and security requirements

Organizations

Create and manage multiple organizational units within your account to segment teams, projects, and resources

Also in: Notion, Airtable, Smartsheet

Analytics & Insights(2)

Custom Dashboards

Create personalized dashboards to visualize key metrics, monitor performance, and track progress in real-time

Software Engineering Insights

Discover and fix bottlenecks across people, process, and tooling by leveraging frameworks like DORA and SPACE

Artifact Management(1)

Artifact Registry

Centralize, secure and streamline your artifact management for faster, safer delivery

Build Automation(1)

Continuous Integration

Build 8x faster with any source code, in any language, and on any operating system with world's fastest CI platform

Cost Optimization(1)

Cloud Cost ManagementAI

Continuously optimize cloud spend by enforcing cloud cost policies and compliance at scale with AI-powered recommendations

Also in: OpenAI API, Neon, Melio

Database Management(1)

Database DevOps

Integrate database changes into your deployment pipeline and gain database transparency across environments

Deployment Automation(2)

Continuous Delivery & GitOpsAI

Fully automate pipelines for multi-cloud, multi-region, and multi-service software deployments with GitOps or push-based deployments

GitOps

Automate and manage deployments using Git as the single source of truth for consistency and traceability

Deployment Options(1)

Self Managed PlatformPremium

Deploy and manage the Harness platform within your own infrastructure for full control over data, configurations, and updates

Also in: Amazon RDS

Developer Experience(2)

Cloud Development Environments

Dedicated, pre-configured, hosted development environments (Gitspaces) connected to your favorite IDE

Internal Developer Portal

Accelerate developer onboarding from months to hours with a low effort enterprise-grade IDP built on top of Backstage

Governance(1)

Policy as Code

Automate and enforce governance by defining policies in code to ensure compliance, security, and consistency across deployments

Incident Management(1)

AI SREAI

Resolve incidents faster with AI-driven triage, contextual insights, and streamlined collaboration for improved reliability and reduced downtime

Infrastructure Management(2)

Infrastructure as Code Management

Simplify infrastructure as code with automation, faster collaboration, error reduction, and cost control

Self Hosted Runners

Run CI/CD workloads in your own infrastructure for greater control, data privacy, and compliance

Integration(2)

Code Repository Integration

Integrate with leading code repositories like GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket for seamless source control

Native Deployment Integration

Seamlessly integrate with popular deployment tools like Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, and more

Monitoring & Analytics(1)

Pipeline Execution History

View and analyze historical pipeline runs, including logs, statuses, and execution details

Performance(1)

Concurrent Pipeline Executions

Run multiple pipelines simultaneously to accelerate delivery workflows and optimize resource utilization

Release Management(2)

Deployment Freeze Windows

Define time-based rules to temporarily block deployments in specific environments during critical periods

Feature Management & Experimentation

Release software confidently with feature flags connected to critical impact data, and run experiments at scale

Reliability(1)

Service Reliability Management

Provide automated SLO management, Change Impact Analysis and Automated Governance for Developer & SRE teams

Security(4)

Application Security Testing

Identifies and remediates vulnerabilities from code to runtime by integrating security testing for APIs and AI Apps in your SDLC

Security Testing Orchestration

Shift-left security by seamlessly integrating security scanners and orchestrating tests across build pipelines with intelligent prioritization and deduplication

Software Security Supply Chain

Monitor and control open source components, generate comprehensive Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs), and guarantee software integrity in accordance with SLSA

Web Application & API Protection

Continuously monitor and evaluate your API footprint, identify sensitive data exposure, and protect against runtime risks in applications and AI systems

Testing(2)

AI Test AutomationAI

Modernize end-to-end tests with AI test authoring and self-healing, with code suggestions and explanations

Resilience Testing

Discover how your applications stand up to real-world failure scenarios with over 225 out-of-the-box or bring-your-own experiments embedded in pipelines

Testing & Resilience(1)

Chaos Engineering

Powered by CNCF Litmus project - increase system resilience, optimize costs, improve customer experience with industry's widest coverage on Chaos Faults

Workflow Automation(3)

Deployment Templates

Leverage pre-configured deployment templates for consistent, repeatable, and efficient pipeline setups

Pipeline Chaining

Link pipelines together to create complex workflows with automatic triggering based on success or failure

Templates

Streamline workflows by reusing pre-configured pipeline, deployment, and governance templates

Pricing

Free Plan

Free
  • Starter platform to manage software delivery lifecycle
  • Access to Harness Open Source and Litmus Chaos

Essentials

Contact Sales
  • Continuous Delivery & GitOps
  • Continuous Integration
  • Infrastructure as Code Management
  • Security Testing Orchestration
  • Pipeline Execution History (6 months)
  • Up to 1 Organization
  • Up to 500 Users
  • Up to 5 Custom Dashboards
  • Unlimited Templates
  • Up to 5 Custom Roles
  • Native Deployment Integration
  • Up to 60 Concurrent Pipeline Executions
  • GitOps
  • Up to 5 Deployment Templates
  • Deployment Freeze Windows
  • Pipeline Chaining (Unlimited)
  • 250GB Storage (Code Repository)
  • Up to 60 Concurrent Pipeline Executions (CI)
  • Up to 60 Self Hosted Runners
  • Artifact Registry
  • Feature Management & Experimentation
  • Chaos Engineering
  • Service Reliability Management
  • Database DevOps
  • Software Engineering Insights
  • Internal Developer Portal
  • Cloud Development Environments
  • Security Testing Orchestration
  • Software Security Supply Chain
  • Cloud Cost Management
  • Standard Support

Enterprise

Popular
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  • All Essentials features plus:
  • Pipeline Execution History (25 months as add-on)
  • Unlimited Organizations
  • Unlimited Users
  • Unlimited Custom Dashboards
  • Unlimited Templates
  • Unlimited Custom Roles
  • Self Managed Platform
  • Unlimited Concurrent Pipeline Executions
  • Unlimited Self Hosted Runners
  • 250GB Storage (Code Repository)
  • Unlimited Concurrent Pipeline Executions (CI)
  • Advanced Features
  • Premium Support
  • Dedicated Account Manager
  • Professional Services available as add-on
  • Premiere Support available for purchase

Cost Calculator

Pricing data not available for Harness. Check their website for current pricing.

Build vs Buy

Should you build a Harness alternative or buy the subscription? Estimate based on 34 features.

Buy Harness

Better Value
Monthly costContact Sales
3-year totalVaries
Time to deployDays

Build Your Own

Development cost$24,000
Maintenance$360/mo
3-year total$36,960
Dev time~2 months

Buying Harness saves ~$36,960 over 3 years vs building.

Estimates based on 34 features and a BuildScore of 5/5. Actual costs vary.

Integrations

18 known integrations