Harness

What is Harness?

Harness is a software delivery platform that bundles continuous integration, continuous delivery, GitOps, infrastructure as code management and security testing orchestration. Teams pick modules across DevOps, testing, security and operations, such as feature management, an artifact registry, resilience testing, AI security, AI SRE and an internal developer portal. Harness offers a Free plan that includes Harness Open Source and Litmus Chaos with community support, an Essentials plan sold as an all-in-one DevOps bundle, and a fully modular Enterprise plan with premier support. Essentials and Enterprise are priced by quotation through sales. A newer unit-based Flex Pricing model, in limited availability, charges per Harness Subscription Unit: $0.75 on Essentials and $1.25 on Enterprise, and every Free account gets 1,000 free units a month. The platform connects to tools like GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Kubernetes and the major clouds, which makes Harness a fit for platform and DevOps teams that want one place for pipelines.

Use cases

• Build and run CI pipelines
• Deploy with CD and GitOps
• Orchestrate security scans
• Manage infrastructure as code
• Roll out features with flags
• Track and cut cloud spend

Who it's for

• DevOps engineers
• Platform teams
• Engineering organizations
• Security engineers

Why use Harness

• One vendor covers build, deploy, security testing and cost control, so teams avoid stitching separate tools together.
• A free tier with open source components lets individuals and small teams try the platform before talking to sales.
• Modular Enterprise buying means you pay only for the modules you need now and add others later.
• Deployments work across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, on-premises and private clouds on every plan.
• Usage-based units give finance teams a single pool to budget against instead of per-module licences.

Harness features

• Continuous integration with self-hosted runners
• Continuous delivery and GitOps
• Infrastructure as Code Management
• Security Testing Orchestration
• Feature Management and Experimentation
• Artifact Registry and Database DevOps
• Resilience testing through Litmus Chaos
• Cloud AI cost management and AI SRE
• Policy as Code and custom roles
• Internal Developer Portal

Harness integrations

• GitHub
• GitLab
• Bitbucket
• Jenkins
• Kubernetes
• AWS
• Azure
• Google Cloud
• Datadog
• New Relic
• Jira
• ServiceNow
• Slack
• Microsoft Teams

How to get started with Harness

1. Start on the Free plan or contact sales to discuss the Essentials or Enterprise plan.
2. Connect your code repositories, artifact registries and cloud accounts through the built-in integrations.
3. Build CI and CD pipelines, then add modules such as security testing orchestration or infrastructure as code.
4. Apply policy as code and role controls, then follow executions, usage and spend from the platform dashboards.

Harness limitations

• Essentials and Enterprise prices are not published; both go through sales
• DevOps Essentials has no on-premises option and cannot take Enterprise modules as add-ons
• Essentials caps users at 500 and keeps pipeline history for 6 months
• Flex Pricing is in limited availability and needs an account executive

Harness pricing

Yes, Harness has a free plan.

Harness plans

• Free Plan

  Free

  • Harness Open Source included
  • Litmus Chaos included
  • Community support

• Essentials Plan

  Custom

  Contact sales for a quotation

  • All-in-one DevOps bundle
  • CI, CD, IaC and security in one plan
  • Standard support included

• Enterprise Plan

  Custom

  Contact sales for a quotation

  • Choose any modules
  • Enterprise-grade features in every module
  • Premier support and a dedicated account manager

Plans as listed on the official pricing page on 24 Oct 2026. Prices can change and may vary by country or exclude tax. Check the official pricing page.

Harness alternatives

The main Harness alternatives listed on Debuly are Cognee, Metaflow, Agent Development Kit (ADK), DeployRamp, LiveKit and OpenLIT. The table compares pricing and platforms; order is A–Z.

1. 

   Agent Development Kit (ADK)

   Google's open-source, code-first Python framework for building, testing and deploying AI agents and multi-agent workflows.

   Developer platformsAutomation and agentsCoding
   Open sourceVisit Agent Development Kit (ADK) (official site)
2. 

   Cognee

   Open-source memory engine for AI agents that combines vector search, knowledge graphs and relational storage, with a hosted cloud.

   Developer platformsAutomation and agentsResearch and search
   FreemiumVisit Cognee (official site)
3. 

   DeployRamp

   AI-native feature flag platform that wraps risky pull requests in flags, ramps rollouts on error signals and opens cleanup PRs.

   Developer platformsCodingAutomation and agents
   FreemiumVisit DeployRamp (official site)
4. 

   LiveKit

   Open-source framework and cloud platform for building, deploying and monitoring realtime voice, video and AI agents.

   Developer platformsAudio and voiceAutomation and agents
   FreemiumVisit LiveKit (official site)
5. 

   Metaflow

   Open-source Python library for building ML, AI and data science workflows locally and running them at scale in your cloud.

   Developer platformsAutomation and agentsCoding
   Open sourceVisit Metaflow (official site)
6. 

   OpenLIT

   Open-source, OpenTelemetry-native platform for tracing, evaluating and guarding AI agents, with cost and GPU monitoring

   Developer platformsCodingAutomation and agents
   Open sourceVisit OpenLIT (official site)

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