Harness Editions
Harness is available in four versions, to meet different users' needs:
- Harness Professional – This is our enterprise version, licensed by annual subscription based on your usage needs. It supports flexible scaling, custom integrations, and extended data analysis. It includes 24/7 support.
- Harness Essentials – Designed for growing teams, this version provides most Harness Professional features at lower per-usage pricing. It limits or excludes some integrations and enterprise security features, and limits real-time support to standard business hours.
- Harness Trial – This is a free 15-day trial of almost all Harness Professional features (excluding unlimited Services, license-based Service Instances scaling, and the on-premises setup option).
- Harness Community – This version is free to use, forever. It limits daily deployments, and limits certain other usage parameters and integration options.Support for Harness Community is available through the Harness Community Forum.
Migrating Between Editions
If you choose to move from the full-featured Harness Trial to the free Community Edition, you'll need to remove or adjust any premium features you've configured. The Harness Manager UI will prompt you to make any required changes. For details on this process, see Migrating to Harness Community.
Migrating to or from the Harness Essentials Edition is handled by Harness. For these migrations, please follow links in the Harness application to contact Harness.
Comparing Editions
Below is a detailed comparison of the four Harness editions' offerings.
| Community | Essentials | Professional | Trial | |
| Usage | ||||
| Free Trial | Free forever | 15-day trial | 15-day trial | 15-day trial |
| Applications | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Same as Professional |
| Services | 10 | Unlimited | Unlimited | 10 |
| Pipelines | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Same as Professional |
| Service Instances | 50 | Based on Number of Licenses | Based on Number of Licenses | 50 |
| Deployments | 100-per-day throttle | Unlimited | Unlimited | 100-per-day throttle |
| Users | 5 | Unlimited | Unlimited | Same as Professional |
| Features | ||||
| Pipeline Builder | Yes | Yes | Yes | Same as Professional |
| Workflow Wizards | Yes | Yes | Yes | Same as Professional |
| Deployment Strategies (e.g., Canary) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Same as Professional |
| Real-Time Delivery Analytics | Yes | Yes | Yes | Same as Professional |
| Live Notifications | Email and Slack | Email and Slack | Email, Slack, Jira, and ServiceNow | Same as Professional |
| Verification—HTTP Assertions, Jenkins Jobs, Scripts | Yes | Yes | Yes | Same as Professional |
| Continuous Verification: Machine Learning–Based Metrics Analysis | Prometheus, CloudWatch, Stackdriver | Prometheus, CloudWatch, Stackdriver | Prometheus, CloudWatch, Stackdriver, New Relic, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Datadog, Custom Metrics Providers | Same as Professional |
| Continuous Verification: Machine Learning–Based Log Analysis | – | – | Splunk, Sumo Logic, ELK, Custom Log Providers | Same as Professional |
| Continuous Verification: 24/7 Service Guard | – | – | Yes | Same as Professional |
| Manual Rollbacks | Yes | Yes | Yes | Same as Professional |
| Automatic Rollbacks | Yes | Yes | Yes | Same as Professional |
| Triggers | Yes | Yes | Yes | Same as Professional |
| Infrastructure Provisioners | Terraform, CloudFormation | Terraform, CloudFormation | Terraform, CloudFormation | Same as Professional |
| Template Library—Scripts and Commands | – | – | Yes | Same as Professional |
| Flow Control | – | – | Yes | Same as Professional |
| Configure Harness Using YAML | Yes | Yes | Yes | Same as Professional |
| Git Sync Harness YAML Configuration | Single Repository | Single Repository | Multiple Repositories | Same as Professional |
| GitOps—Sandboxing and Change Management | – | – | Yes | Same as Professional |
| Tags Creation and Management—Application Components | – | – | Yes | Same as Professional |
| Apply and Remove Existing Tags—Application Components | Yes | Yes | Yes | Same as Professional |
| Custom Dashboards | – | – | Yes | Same as Professional |
| REST API | – | – | Yes | Same as Professional |
| GraphQL API | – | – | Yes | – |
| Enterprise Security | ||||
| Secure HTTPS Connectivity | Yes | Yes | Yes | Same as Professional |
| Secrets Management | Harness Built-In Secret Manager | Harness Built-In Secret Manager | Custom and Built-In Secret Managers | Same as Professional |
| Audit Trails | – | – | Yes | Same as Professional |
| Role-Based Access Control | Administrator Group Only | Up to 5 User Groups | Advanced, Customizable | Same as Professional |
| IP Whitelisting | – | – | Yes | Same as Professional |
| Two-Factor Authentication | – | – | Yes | Same as Professional |
| Password Strength, Expiration, and Lockout Enforcement | – | – | Yes | Same as Professional |
| SSO (Basic)—Google, Azure, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, LinkedIn | Yes | Yes | Yes | Same as Professional |
| SSO (Advanced)—LDAP, SAML, custom OAuth | – | – | Yes | Same as Professional |
| Governance | ||||
| Governance Rules | – | – | Yes | Same as Professional |
| Approval Flow | Manual | Manual | Jira, ServiceNow, Custom, and Manual | Same as Professional |
| Historical Data | ||||
| Retention Period for Historical Deployments | 7 Days | 30 Days | 6 Months | Same as Professional |
| Retention Period for Audit Trails | – | – | 1 Year | Same as Professional |
| Audit Trail Export—Daily Archival | – | – | Yes | Same as Professional |
| Customer Support | ||||
| Documentation/Knowledge Base | Yes | Yes | Yes | Same as Professional |
| Community | Yes | Yes | Yes | Same as Professional |
| Real-Time Support | – | Std. Business Hours (U.S. Pacific Time) | Std. Business Hours (U.S. Pacific Time); Optional 24/7 Packages | Same as Professional |
| Deployment Choices | ||||
| SaaS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Same as Professional |
| On-Prem | – | Yes | Yes | – |
| Number of Harness Delegates | 1 | Unlimited | Unlimited | Same as Professional |