How much does Harness cost?

Harness publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Free up to On request for Enterprise. The entry tier costs nothing.

What is the difference between Free and Essentials on Harness?

Essentials costs On request against Free, and adds growing organizations with small to mid-size teams, packaged devops essentials bundle, continuous software delivery capabilities, standard support.

Which developer tools tools can I use without paying?

8 of the 8 developer tools tools listed alongside Harness have a free tier: Deep Code, Jitsu, Tilt, Hookdeck, Ona (formerly Gitpod).

What am I actually paying for with Harness?

The record we hold does not itemise what each tier includes beyond the plan names and prices. The Harness review carries whatever feature detail is available.

Does Harness charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.

Are these Harness prices current?

They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.

What should I compare Harness against before paying?

The closest developer tools tools in this directory are Deep Code, Jitsu, Tilt, Hookdeck. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Harness covering price, platforms and features.

Developer Tools · pricing

Harness pricing

Harness publishes 3 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

As of 29 August 2026, Harness pricing is free across 3 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.

Entry price: Free
Model: Freemium
Tiers: 3
Free tier: Yes

Harness plans, side by side

Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.

Harness pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Free	Free	2	Entry tier
Essentials	On request	6	Priced on request
Enterprise	On request	8	Priced on request

What each tier adds

The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.

Free

The entry tier. It covers starter platform for software delivery lifecycle, open source options available (harness open source, litmus chaos).

Essentials

On request

Over Free, this tier adds:

Growing organizations with small to mid-size teams
Packaged DevOps Essentials bundle
Continuous software delivery capabilities
Standard support
Modules: CI, CD, Code Repository, Security Test Orchestration, Infrastructure as Code Management
Custom pricing contact required

Enterprise

On request

Over Essentials, this tier adds:

Large-scale organizations
Pick any modules based on needs
Advanced features
Premium support with dedicated account manager
Self-managed platform deployment
Unlimited concurrent pipeline executions (up to 500)
Unlimited custom dashboards, users, and organizations

Where Harness stops being free

Free, Free

Starter platform for software delivery lifecycle
Open source options available (Harness Open Source, Litmus Chaos)

No paid tier on record

Harness lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.

How that compares in Developer Tools

Too few developer tools tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.

Harness entry price against other Developer Tools tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Harness (this page)	Free	freemium	-
Deep Code	Free, then $5/month	freemium	-	vs Harness
Jitsu	Free, then $99/month	Per month by event volume	-	vs Harness
Tilt	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Harness
Hookdeck	Free, then $39/month	Per month by delivered event count	-	vs Harness
Ona (formerly Gitpod)	Free, then $20/month	Per month by compute unit	-	vs Harness
Cloud Native Buildpacks	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Harness

Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Harness badges page.

Before you pay for Harness

Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.

What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 3 tiers between Free and On request, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.

Harness runs on not recorded. The full record is on the Harness review, and the rest of the category is under best developer tools tools.

Harness pricing on the vendor's own site

Harness pricing questions

How much does Harness cost?: Harness publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Free up to On request for Enterprise. The entry tier costs nothing.
Does Harness have a free plan?: Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers starter platform for software delivery lifecycle, open source options available (harness open source, litmus chaos).
What is the difference between Free and Essentials on Harness?: Essentials costs On request against Free, and adds growing organizations with small to mid-size teams, packaged devops essentials bundle, continuous software delivery capabilities, standard support.
Which developer tools tools can I use without paying?: 8 of the 8 developer tools tools listed alongside Harness have a free tier: Deep Code, Jitsu, Tilt, Hookdeck, Ona (formerly Gitpod).
What am I actually paying for with Harness?: The record we hold does not itemise what each tier includes beyond the plan names and prices. The Harness review carries whatever feature detail is available.
Does Harness charge per user?: The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
Are these Harness prices current?: They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
What should I compare Harness against before paying?: The closest developer tools tools in this directory are Deep Code, Jitsu, Tilt, Hookdeck. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Harness covering price, platforms and features.