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Harness

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4.5
2026
Market Presence: DevOps Platforms (Transitioning to DevSecOps Platforms), AI Code Assistants (Transitioning to AI Coding Agents)

Overview

Product Information on Harness

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Harness?

Harness is a software platform designed to automate and streamline the delivery of applications by providing continuous integration, continuous delivery, feature flag management, cloud cost management, and chaos engineering capabilities. The software enables organizations to build, test, deploy, and monitor code in various environments while integrating security and compliance checks into workflows. Harness centralizes visibility over deployment pipelines, allows for customizable governance and audit trails, and supports rollback and remediation functionalities. The platform addresses business challenges related to deployment speed, reliability, and process efficiency by reducing manual intervention and providing analytics for optimization of software delivery.

Harness Pricing

Harness software uses a subscription-based pricing model that offers various plans depending on user needs such as cloud cost management, continuous integration, and deployment. Pricing may vary by team size, number of users, and specific modules or features selected, often based on either usage or number of resources managed within the software.

Overall experience with Harness

Director of Engineering
250M - 500M USD, Software
FAVORABLE

“Developer Experience Improves With Harness IDP and Self Service Workflows ”

5.0
Dec 17, 2025
Our overall experience with Harness has been great -we were their 4th customer and the platform has become a key part of our DevOps and delivery strategy, providing both technical capabilities and clear business value. We make extensive use of the Harness IDP which has significantly improved the developer experience through well-designed self-service workflows and better standardisation across teams. The ability to abstract complexity while still enabling flexibility has been a major win for us. Harness CI and CD have proven to be robust, scalable and easy to adopt, helping us accelerate delivery while maintaining strong governance and visibility. We have seen strong results from Harness STO and SCS which have helped us embed security earlier in the pipeline and improve overall security posture without slowing delivery down. These capabilities align well with our shift-left security goals. Historically we have seen great success with CCM which delivers clear cost visibility, optimisation and better cloud cost control spend. Overall, Harness continues to demonstrate strong innovation and a clear understanding of modern engineering needs.
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
<50M USD, IT Services
CRITICAL

“Broad Language Support and Bug Detection Enhance Development Efficiency”

3.0
May 22, 2025
has proven to be powerful assistant for our development team. It accelerates codign tasks, help catch bugs early, and supports a wide range of programming languages

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2026
For Market:
DevOps Platforms (Transitioning to DevSecOps Platforms)

About Company

Company Description

Updated 16th January 2024

Harness is a startup focused on the software delivery market with the goal of revolutionizing the industry. Its primary offering is an intelligent software delivery platform which enhances the efficiency of engineers by offering improved delivery speed and quality. The core components of the Harness Software Delivery Platform encompass Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Feature Flags, Cloud Cost Management, Service Reliability Management, Security Testing Orchestration, and Chaos Engineering. This platform is constructed to expedite business's cloud campaigns and the incorporation of containers and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes and Amazon ECS.

Company Details

Updated 26th February 2025
Company type
Private
Year Founded
2017
Head office location
San Francisco, United States
Number of employees
501 - 1000
Website
http://www.harness.io

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Harness Likes & Dislikes

Like

IDP workflows provide an excellent full self-service gateway and are a strong enabler for teams. SCS is convenient to have natively within the platform rather than rely on 3rd party tools. Unified platform approach simplifies CI/CD security and governance across the SDLC.

Like

the context-aware code suggestions and debugging support are good. it integrates well into our IDE pipeline, helping junior dev ramp up

Like

1. Simplified pipeline creation with visual interface - user friendly drag and drop interface for pipeline creation. Abstracts away the complexities of building pipelines. 2. AIDA and AI related features - an interactive DevOps assistant to help troubleshoot failures and create pipelines from scratch. 3. Automated rollbacks - harness can automatically revert to previous stable version without manual intervention

Dislike

Product maturity and performance - some newer modules feel GA before being fully enterprise ready, leading to rework(IDP v1 to v2, FF migrations, 1st Gen to Next Gen)

Dislike

occasionalu provides inaccurate or outdated code, especially for less common frameworks. it also struggles with highly specific business logic

Dislike

1. Complex Pricing Model - since all modules are priced individually, sometimes it can get challenging to understand the pricing structure. The cost is typically tied to usage and can quickly scale up. 2. Learning curve - for teams with less experience in cicd it can be difficult to manage or fully grasp how to leverage harness's advanced features 3. Limited on prem support - harness excels in cloud native environments and has limited support for on-prem infra.

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Harness Reviews and Ratings

4.5

(153 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
56%
4 Star
36%
3 Star
8%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
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Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.4

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4.4

Service & Support

4.5

Product Capabilities

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  • Director of Engineering
    50M-1B USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Developer Experience Improves With Harness IDP and Self Service Workflows

    5.0
    Dec 17, 2025
    Our overall experience with Harness has been great -we were their 4th customer and the platform has become a key part of our DevOps and delivery strategy, providing both technical capabilities and clear business value. We make extensive use of the Harness IDP which has significantly improved the developer experience through well-designed self-service workflows and better standardisation across teams. The ability to abstract complexity while still enabling flexibility has been a major win for us. Harness CI and CD have proven to be robust, scalable and easy to adopt, helping us accelerate delivery while maintaining strong governance and visibility. We have seen strong results from Harness STO and SCS which have helped us embed security earlier in the pipeline and improve overall security posture without slowing delivery down. These capabilities align well with our shift-left security goals. Historically we have seen great success with CCM which delivers clear cost visibility, optimisation and better cloud cost control spend. Overall, Harness continues to demonstrate strong innovation and a clear understanding of modern engineering needs.
  • Director of Finance
    10B+ USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Harness CICD: Powerful automation & AI Driven Features for Enterprise-scale DevOps

    5.0
    Dec 18, 2025
    Harness is a powerful and reliable CI/CD tool for medium to large organizations looking for an end-to-end solution for their software delivery lifecycle. Its focus on automation and reducing the manual effort involved in deployments can significantly improve developer productivity. It is easy to use with a modern intuitive web interface, highly scalable being a saas platform, provides templates to standardize best practices with lot of AI capabilities. It can integrate well with all existing DevOps tools and cloud platforms.
  • IT Manager
    1B-10B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Fast Onboarding with Harness. Provides Opportunity for Major Improvements.

    5.0
    Dec 1, 2025
    Harness has been a good vendor so far, providing an easy to use product right off the bat. Setting up the self-managed infrastructure has been a breeze, which allowed us to start using the tool very quickly. Harness customer success and support staff is very responsive and is available to ensure we are seeing return on our investment.
  • Lead Engineer
    50M-1B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Detailed Release Metrics Provide Insight While UI May Overwhelm Smaller Teams

    4.0
    Dec 23, 2025
    Harness is a modern software delivery and DevOps platform that focuess on improving deployment, reliability, speed and visibilu across CI/CD pipelines. Its key differentiator is the use of AI-driven deployment verification, which helps teams detect anamolies, recude failed release and automate deployments at scale.
  • Engineering Manager
    10B+ USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Transition to SEI 2.0 Improves Usability and Intuitive Configuration Experience

    5.0
    Dec 17, 2025
    The Harness team has been a pleasure to work with. They are always available to help when asked. The Software Engineering Insights product provides clear and indepth insights to DORA metrics which is the industry standard. The SEI product also provides a wide range Efficency and Pruductivity metrics as well.
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