Harness is an AI-native software delivery platform that provides a suite of tools covering CI/CD pipelines, feature flag management, cloud cost optimization, and security testing. It is designed to help engineering teams automate and accelerate the full software delivery lifecycle, from code commit to production deployment. AI is embedded across the platform to assist with pipeline configuration, failure analysis, and cost recommendations, rather than being a standalone add-on. Harness serves a wide range of company sizes and supports flexible deployment options including cloud, on-premise, and self-hosted, with FedRAMP authorization making it suitable for government and regulated industries. Notable customers include AppDynamics, Mercedes-Benz, and Citi.
Harness
AI-native software delivery for faster, safer shipping.
Compliance
FedRAMP GDPR ISO 27001 SOC 2
Key Features
- CI/CD automation: Provides a full continuous integration and delivery pipeline platform with AI-assisted configuration and failure diagnosis, reducing the manual work of building and maintaining delivery pipelines.
- Feature flag management: Enables teams to safely release features to subsets of users, roll back instantly if issues arise, and run experiments — all managed within the same platform as their delivery pipelines.
- Cloud cost management: Monitors and optimizes cloud infrastructure spend, providing recommendations and automated actions to reduce waste across cloud environments.
- Security testing integration: Embeds security scanning into the delivery pipeline so vulnerabilities are caught before code reaches production, without requiring a separate toolchain.
- AI-assisted operations: Uses AI to surface insights, suggest pipeline fixes, and flag anomalies across the delivery workflow, reducing the cognitive load on engineering and DevOps teams.
- Flexible deployment: Available as cloud SaaS, on-premise, or self-hosted, with FedRAMP authorization for public sector and highly regulated enterprise use cases.
Use Cases
- For DevOps teams standardizing software delivery: A DevOps team at a mid-sized company consolidates their fragmented CI/CD, feature flagging, and cost tooling onto Harness to reduce platform sprawl and give engineers a unified delivery experience.
- For enterprises in regulated industries: A financial services or government organization needs a software delivery platform that meets FedRAMP or ISO 27001 requirements — Harness’s compliance certifications and on-premise deployment option make it a viable choice.
- For teams managing cloud cost alongside delivery: An engineering team whose cloud spend has grown alongside their product uses Harness’s cost management module to identify and reduce waste without switching to a separate FinOps tool.
Pricing MODELS
Freemium
Pricing Summary
Harness offers a free tier, a Team plan at $20 per developer per month, and custom enterprise pricing. Pricing is publicly listed on their website and varies by module.
Company Size Fit
Enterprise Mid-market SMB
Technical Snapshot
API Available
Yes
LLM Provider
Multi-model
Open Source
Partial
Deployment Options
Cloud Saas, On-premise, Self-hosted
Notable Customers
AppDynamics, Mercedez-Benz, Citi