What is Harness?
Harness sells its software delivery platform as separate modules - Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery/GitOps, Feature Flags, Cloud Cost Management, Security Testing Orchestration, Chaos Engineering, an Internal Developer Portal, and Software Engineering Insights - under one account and UI, with an AI assistant (AIDA) integrated across them. Customers can buy one module or several.
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Sources checked 27 September 2026: official website, documentation, pricing.
Key capabilities
- Modules: CI, CD/GitOps, Feature Flags, Cloud Cost Management, Security Testing Orchestration, Chaos Engineering and more, licensed independently.
- Free tier: A Harness Open Source/community plan for individuals and small teams on select modules.
- AIDA: An AI assistant embedded across modules for troubleshooting and automation.
CI/CD pipeline orchestration and adjacent delivery tooling (feature flags, cost management, security scanning) sold as a modular platform.
Shortlist Harness when you want to consolidate CI, CD, feature flags, cost visibility and security scanning under one vendor rather than integrating separate point tools. Weigh module-by-module pricing and lock-in against a best-of-breed stack.
Pricing for paid tiers (Essentials, Enterprise) is quote-based rather than published, so a useful evaluation runs one real pipeline through Harness CD with your actual deployment targets before comparing total module cost to your current toolchain.
Technical details
- Access
- Self-hosted
- Source model
- Other license
- Founded
- 2017
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, USA
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- API
- Available
- Website
- www.harness.io ↗
Official resources
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