Harness
harness.ioBuild Difficulty: 5/5
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AI for DevOps, Testing, AppSec, and Cost Optimization
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Features
34 features across 21 categories
Administration(2)
Define and configure roles with tailored permissions to match your organization's unique workflows and security requirements
Create and manage multiple organizational units within your account to segment teams, projects, and resources
Analytics & Insights(2)
Create personalized dashboards to visualize key metrics, monitor performance, and track progress in real-time
Discover and fix bottlenecks across people, process, and tooling by leveraging frameworks like DORA and SPACE
Artifact Management(1)
Centralize, secure and streamline your artifact management for faster, safer delivery
Build Automation(1)
Build 8x faster with any source code, in any language, and on any operating system with world's fastest CI platform
Cost Optimization(1)
Continuously optimize cloud spend by enforcing cloud cost policies and compliance at scale with AI-powered recommendations
Database Management(1)
Integrate database changes into your deployment pipeline and gain database transparency across environments
Deployment Automation(2)
Fully automate pipelines for multi-cloud, multi-region, and multi-service software deployments with GitOps or push-based deployments
Automate and manage deployments using Git as the single source of truth for consistency and traceability
Deployment Options(1)
Deploy and manage the Harness platform within your own infrastructure for full control over data, configurations, and updates
Developer Experience(2)
Dedicated, pre-configured, hosted development environments (Gitspaces) connected to your favorite IDE
Accelerate developer onboarding from months to hours with a low effort enterprise-grade IDP built on top of Backstage
Governance(1)
Automate and enforce governance by defining policies in code to ensure compliance, security, and consistency across deployments
Incident Management(1)
Resolve incidents faster with AI-driven triage, contextual insights, and streamlined collaboration for improved reliability and reduced downtime
Infrastructure Management(2)
Simplify infrastructure as code with automation, faster collaboration, error reduction, and cost control
Run CI/CD workloads in your own infrastructure for greater control, data privacy, and compliance
Integration(2)
Integrate with leading code repositories like GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket for seamless source control
Seamlessly integrate with popular deployment tools like Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, and more
Monitoring & Analytics(1)
View and analyze historical pipeline runs, including logs, statuses, and execution details
Performance(1)
Run multiple pipelines simultaneously to accelerate delivery workflows and optimize resource utilization
Release Management(2)
Define time-based rules to temporarily block deployments in specific environments during critical periods
Release software confidently with feature flags connected to critical impact data, and run experiments at scale
Reliability(1)
Provide automated SLO management, Change Impact Analysis and Automated Governance for Developer & SRE teams
Security(4)
Identifies and remediates vulnerabilities from code to runtime by integrating security testing for APIs and AI Apps in your SDLC
Shift-left security by seamlessly integrating security scanners and orchestrating tests across build pipelines with intelligent prioritization and deduplication
Monitor and control open source components, generate comprehensive Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs), and guarantee software integrity in accordance with SLSA
Continuously monitor and evaluate your API footprint, identify sensitive data exposure, and protect against runtime risks in applications and AI systems
Testing(2)
Modernize end-to-end tests with AI test authoring and self-healing, with code suggestions and explanations
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)
Powered by CNCF Litmus project - increase system resilience, optimize costs, improve customer experience with industry's widest coverage on Chaos Faults
Workflow Automation(3)
Leverage pre-configured deployment templates for consistent, repeatable, and efficient pipeline setups
Link pipelines together to create complex workflows with automatic triggering based on success or failure
Streamline workflows by reusing pre-configured pipeline, deployment, and governance templates
Pricing
Free Plan
- ✓Starter platform to manage software delivery lifecycle
- ✓Access to Harness Open Source and Litmus Chaos
Essentials
- ✓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- ✓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
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Build vs Buy
Should you build a Harness alternative or buy the subscription? Estimate based on 34 features.
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Better ValueBuild Your Own
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