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Cloudability vs Harness comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 2, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
6.5
Cloudability boosts financial efficiency, saving users up to $400,000 annually through cost reduction, ROI, and budgeting optimization features.
Sentiment score
8.6
Harness improves efficiency, reduces deployment and development time, increases success rates, and offers positive ROI with low maintenance costs.
It'd be very easy to save at least 10 to 20% costs from cloud spend just by utilizing the features of right-sizing or commitments management that Cloudability offers.
Enterprise Cloud Operations Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
We save time by making the reporting easier.
Digital Marketing, Marketing Technology & Analytics Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
By adopting templates and various different pipelines across our own IDP platform, we have saved upwards of 30 to 40% of development time.
Technical Associate at ZS
I believe the efficiency improvement is more than a twenty to thirty percent increase compared to Jenkins.
Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
With Harness, the release process decreased from three or four hours to one or two hours, making deployments much quicker.
Software Engineer at Citi
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
5.2
Enterprise customers receive strategic support from account managers, though response consistency and communication options are limited.
Sentiment score
8.1
Harness offers efficient and proactive support with quick resolution and communication, often allowing internal teams to manage incidents.
The customer support from Cloudability is great.
Enterprise Cloud Operations Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Cloudability's customer support is adequate, and I would rate it an 8 on a scale of 1 to 10.
Digital Marketing, Marketing Technology & Analytics Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
We have not faced any customer support issues, with tickets resolved in less than a four-day SLA.
Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
We have rarely faced issues with Harness tech support.
Senior AWS Consultant at Quantum Integrators
We have been receiving incident reports whenever an incident occurs on Harness, and they are usually quick to respond.
Technical Associate at ZS
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.1
Cloudability offers adaptable scalability, supporting large datasets but some users desire enhanced feature support and additional capabilities.
Sentiment score
7.8
Harness provides highly scalable SaaS for teams, efficiently managing applications with minimal performance issues, ideal for enterprise growth.
Cloudability's scalability is excellent because it can link with as few as one cloud account to thousands of cloud accounts, so there are no issues there.
Enterprise Cloud Operations Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
It is able to work on our infrastructure side, which is EKS, and we are able to handle our organization growth effectively for an enterprise use case.
Technical Associate at ZS
Our entire organization uses it with hundreds of applications, and it supports this scale effectively.
Senior Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Currently, out of twenty teams that are supposed to adopt it, five or six have adopted Harness, and we have not seen any kind of scalability issues, such as slowness in performance or build time reduction.
Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.3
Cloudability is seen as mature and stable, especially beneficial for multi-cloud cost management, with minimal impact during outages.
Sentiment score
7.5
Harness is stable with smooth production performance, though issues arise with over twenty applications and rare downtime reports.
Harness is completely stable, and we are using it in production without facing any stability issues at all.
Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
We have rarely faced issues with Harness tech support.
Senior AWS Consultant at Quantum Integrators
Harness is decently stable.
Technical Associate at ZS
 

Room For Improvement

Cloudability requires interface simplification, improved rightsizing, automation, data integration, and enhanced cost allocation and sustainability features.
Harness needs improvements in clarity, setup simplification, security, automation, stability, UI, pipeline support, onboarding, and flexible pricing.
I've found that Groups is basically unusable because if it can't be used everywhere, you would have to run both group-based access control and direct user-based access control at the same time, which doesn't make any sense.
Enterprise Cloud Operations Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
It would be beneficial if we could use resource tags to provide more fine-grained visibility.
Digital Marketing, Marketing Technology & Analytics Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
I believe that automating all manual processes in Cloudability would be beneficial, providing a proactive prescriptive analysis on what needs to be done to lower costs.
Enterprise Data Architect at LTIMindtree
There is no way to execute nested pipelines, which means that we cannot execute child pipelines within child pipelines and child pipelines even within those child pipelines.
Technical Associate at ZS
Harness can be improved by providing more clarity on the credits it issues for Harness Cloud, as it has a tiered pricing structure involving license and credit costs, which can get confusing.
Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
When deploying multiple components to multiple environments, like production and BCP, failures sometimes occur.
Senior Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
 

Setup Cost

Cloudability offers intuitive features valued by enterprise users; however, pricing challenges exist, especially for smaller companies.
You also get value for money because of the breadth and depth of the features.
Enterprise Cloud Operations Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
From what I understand with respect to Harness, licensing and setup costs were relatively low for an enterprise, and the pricing was more catered toward enterprises who would invest in the technology.
Technical Associate at ZS
 

Valuable Features

Cloudability enhances cost management with features like dashboards, reporting, forecasting, and AWS integration for improved transparency and usability.
Harness accelerates deployment with intelligent caching, AI error detection, enhanced safety, and improved team coordination and compliance visibility.
The Views feature is also beneficial because lots of teams may use Cloudability within an organization, allowing users to segregate data to particular Views so they are only looking at what's relevant to them.
Enterprise Cloud Operations Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The forecasting feature has helped me understand how the resources are utilized and how the cost is burned, and then I use it to make changes to keep the cost in control.
Digital Marketing, Marketing Technology & Analytics Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
I find the reports to be extensive and elaborate, and I get whatever information I require.
Enterprise Data Architect at LTIMindtree
Harness uses AI to suggest errors in case of deployment failures.
Senior Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Harness offers several best features that I have worked with, including an intelligent caching system for dependencies and artifact building that allows for extremely short build times without extra bash scripting.
Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The best features in Harness are its user-friendliness and setup configuration.
Senior AWS Consultant at Quantum Integrators
 

Categories and Ranking

Cloudability
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
3rd
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Harness
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
7th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
Build Automation (6th), Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (16th), Feature Management (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Cloud Cost Management category, the mindshare of Cloudability is 6.7%, down from 12.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Harness is 2.0%, up from 1.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Cost Management Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Cloudability6.7%
Harness2.0%
Other91.3%
Cloud Cost Management
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2795433 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Cloud Operations Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Gained multi-cloud cost visibility and have optimized spend with detailed reports and rightsizing
The IAM feature is something that we struggle with using. IBM, the company that runs Cloudability, released the Groups feature back in the summer of 2025. While Groups can be used in some parts of the tool, it can't be used across the entire tool. I've found that Groups is basically unusable because if it can't be used everywhere, you would have to run both group-based access control and direct user-based access control at the same time, which doesn't make any sense. The Groups feature has improved over time, but it's still not something we feel we can use on an everyday basis, so the IAM section remains an issue right now. Most of the tool is very well-functioning and developed, and that's the only real improvement area that we've seen.
MK
Technical Associate at ZS
Templatized pipelines have improved efficiency while limitations in code-based development remain
Harness UI can do a lot of good things. Harness's UI should not feel very complicated. At the current stage, it feels very commercialized and compared to other platforms such as Argo CD or Jenkins, which feel much more lively and much more simple. Infrastructure as code or pipeline as code is something that Harness severely lacks. There is not a lot of good support for pipeline as code, and I often find myself not using pipeline as code the way other platforms such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins integrate pipeline as code. Pipeline as code is definitely one of the disadvantages when it comes to Harness. Additionally, the entire platform feels very commercialized, which is something that a lot of developers, especially open-source enthusiasts, might not appreciate even within the organization. One of the very important key factors I observed was that there is no way to execute nested pipelines, which means that we cannot execute child pipelines within child pipelines and child pipelines even within those child pipelines. There is no way to execute nested pipeline execution, which may or may not be required based on the use case, but it is definitely one of those features that I wish the platform had.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
24%
Computer Software Company
7%
Retailer
7%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
29%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Retailer
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise13
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Large Enterprise9
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Cloudability?
The most crucial feature in reducing my cloud costs has been the rightsizing recommendations, along with the dashboards that track reserved instance spending coverage and utilization. As for Clouda...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cloudability?
Pricing and setup cost for Cloudability are good. Compared to the rest of the industry, they may be a little more expensive than some other FinOps tools, but that's to be expected because they have...
What needs improvement with Cloudability?
The IAM feature is something that we struggle with using. IBM, the company that runs Cloudability, released the Groups feature back in the summer of 2025. While Groups can be used in some parts of ...
What do you like most about Harness?
It's a highly customizable DevOps tool.
What needs improvement with Harness?
The first point for improvement is the steep learning curve, where concepts such as services, environment, pipelines, and templates take time to understand. New users often need training before bec...
What is your primary use case for Harness?
My main use case for Harness is continuous deployment (CD), specifically for safe, automated deployment to production, especially in Kubernetes and cloud environments. For continuous deployment in ...
 

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Sample Customers

Adobe, Uber, Pega, imgur, Pixable, Blackboard, Keboola, Avalara
Linedata, Openbank, Home Depot, Advanced
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