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Apptio Costing vs Harness comparison

 

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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
7.7
Apptio Costing enhances financial transparency, reduces cloud expenses, improves efficiencies, and increases ROI by up to 32% through automation.
Sentiment score
7.3
Harness enhanced deployment efficiency and error reduction, yielding significant ROI through automation and AI-driven cost-saving strategies.
Making decisions behind tech investments is easier with the budgeting tool Apptio Costing provides.
Senior Software Engineer at Total Gas & Power Limited
Because we have detailed visibility and can monitor and report matters faster, we have seen a return on investment by 30%.
Founder at AppNomu SalesQ
I have seen a return on investment, as identifying ownership gaps in technology and applications has been easy while providing IT leaders with operational details tied to the financials, such as how much we are spending on projects versus what we think we are spending.
Team Lead at UST Global
The AI features that they have and with which we can rewrite the pipeline and troubleshoot issues significantly saved time.
Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 51-200 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
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
8.4
Apptio Costing's customer service is praised for responsiveness, 24/7 availability, and efficient issue resolution, earning high user ratings.
Sentiment score
7.7
Harness offers reliable, responsive customer service and well-structured documentation, providing efficient issue resolution and high user satisfaction.
The customer support is professional and responsive
Project Manager at Flextronics
They are very responsive, respond to questions on time, and provide solutions.
Founder at AppNomu SalesQ
Customer support for Apptio Costing is very responsive to technical questions.
Open Source Engineer at ZuriChat
We have rarely faced issues with Harness tech support.
IT Analyst | Aws Cloud Ops | Dev Ops | Fin Ops at Tata Consultancy
We have not faced any customer support issues, with tickets resolved in less than a four-day SLA.
Quality Engineering Lead at a logistics company with 51-200 employees
There was an instance when I faced issues with third-party plugins, and after raising a support ticket, they responded in a few hours with a documentation link that resolved my issue.
Senior Software Engineer 2 at Porch
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.9
Apptio Costing is praised for its scalability, consistently accommodating organizational growth efficiently without increased costs.
Sentiment score
7.5
Harness effectively scales SaaS environments, supports complex workflows, but may face stability issues with simultaneous service integrations.
Apptio Costing's scalability is very good as it grows with my organization's needs.
Team Lead at UST Global
Apptio Costing is scalable; it grows with you when your product grows and they do not hike prices.
DevOps Engineer at ZuriChat
Apptio Costing is very scalable and grows with my organization's needs.
Project Manager at Flextronics
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
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
When I integrated Harness to more than 20 applications in one place, it becomes less stable.
Software Engineer at Citi
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.8
Apptio Costing is praised for its exceptional stability and reliability, with users reporting no downtime or performance issues.
Sentiment score
8.1
Harness is considered stable and reliable, although integration with many applications may occasionally affect stability.
Apptio Costing is stable; we have not seen any downtime.
Founder at AppNomu SalesQ
Apptio Costing is very stable, and I have not experienced any downtime or lagging.
Senior Software Engineer at Total Gas & Power Limited
Harness is completely stable, and we are using it in production without facing any stability issues at all.
Quality Engineering Lead at a logistics company with 51-200 employees
We have rarely faced issues with Harness tech support.
IT Analyst | Aws Cloud Ops | Dev Ops | Fin Ops at Tata Consultancy
Harness is decently stable.
Technical Associate at ZS
 

Room For Improvement

Improvements needed for Apptio Costing: seamless integration, expanded cloud support, UI simplification, data link fixes, direct adjustments, multilingual support.
Simplify configuration, improve UI, expand features, clarify pricing, and enhance security to improve accessibility and functionality for smaller teams.
It is worth mentioning that Apptio Costing does not have historical balance sheets.
Team Lead at UST Global
The user interface should be improved to be more user-friendly, easy to navigate, and customizable.
Project Manager at Flextronics
The UI should be more user-friendly and intuitive, as drilling down into budget line items in planning takes time and multiple clicks.
Senior Software Engineer at Total Gas & Power Limited
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.
Technical Associate at ZS
Improved documentation and onboarding tutorials would help accelerate adoption.
Cloud Platform at Futurescape
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.
Quality Engineering Lead at a logistics company with 51-200 employees
 

Setup Cost

Enterprise users find Apptio Costing affordable and straightforward, with seamless acquisition and high satisfaction in pricing and setup.
Harness pricing is higher than open-source but justified by benefits, with room for improvement in licensing cost noted.
I found it to be very cost-effective and easy to set up.
Project Manager at Flextronics
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Apptio Costing was that everything was cost-effective and affordable.
Product Manager at Capgemini
I found the pricing to be more affordable, especially depending on the features that Apptio Costing provides.
Open Source Engineer at ZuriChat
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
The licensing cost is a little bit too high.
Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees
 

Valuable Features

Apptio Costing optimizes resource allocation and cost management with data visualization, customizable reporting, and seamless financial integration.
Harness simplifies CI/CD automation with AI-driven processes, enhancing deployment speed and reliability while reducing risks and manual effort.
Apptio Costing provides IT leaders with operational details tied to the financials, indicating how much we are spending on projects versus what we think we are spending.
Project Manager at Flextronics
Apptio Costing has impacted my organization positively because everything with Apptio Costing has been positive, and one thing is that it is very easy to use.
Senior Software Engineer at Total Gas & Power Limited
Planning, budget, and forecasting in Apptio Costing has made the biggest difference for my team, as it helps with annual budgeting, monthly forecasting, and capital project tracking.
Product Manager at Capgemini
Harness uses AI to suggest errors in case of deployment failures.
Senior Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The platform also supports cloud-native environments and Kubernetes deployments, making pipeline management easier, and its automation capabilities significantly improve speed and reliability.
Cloud Platform at Futurescape
If something goes wrong, I can use AI troubleshooting to build or test my fails and analyze the logs, suggesting the fixes.
Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Apptio Costing
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
16th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Harness
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
5th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
Build Automation (5th), Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (6th), Feature Management (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the Cloud Cost Management category, the mindshare of Apptio Costing is 1.0%, down from 2.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Harness is 2.2%, down from 2.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Cost Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Harness2.2%
Apptio Costing1.0%
Other96.8%
Cloud Cost Management
 

Featured Reviews

Newalo Lewis - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead at UST Global
Cost transparency has transformed IT budgeting and now supports confident, data‑driven decisions
The best features that Apptio Costing offers include reducing the total cost of ownership associated with large applications in any organization while providing a business-centric view of technology with insights that help our IT organization unlock and shift resources. It understands any business unit expense from the app, product, or service down to the general ledger and allocates costs based on consumption metrics, enabling precise resource allocation and budget optimization. All the features of Apptio Costing are great and helpful, as it helps organizations classify, categorize, and consolidate IT spend, ensuring investments are directed to the highest value-add opportunities. In addition to the features, cost recovery, where Apptio Costing determines the proper billing amount from each business unit using business rules, and unit rate billing, where it exposes the drivers business units can use to mitigate cost and reinvest in high-value IT activities, also stand out.
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
Insurance Company
63%
Construction Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Comms Service Provider
3%
Financial Services Firm
25%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
Outsourcing Company
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Large Enterprise13
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise10
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Apptio Costing?
I do not have experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing; I only use the product.
What needs improvement with Apptio Costing?
I believe Apptio Costing can be improved on the website by providing flexible features that allow us to define variables that we can change directly on the site by creating a widget based on the va...
What is your primary use case for Apptio Costing?
My main use case for Apptio Costing is for budget forecasting and cost analysis because it is somewhat complicated in our company, particularly in our database operation area. Currently, we use App...
What needs improvement with Harness?
There are some UI components that can be improved. The needed UI improvements include more graphs, more history, the ability to create pipelines through the UI, and more interactions, with UI compo...
What is your primary use case for Harness?
My main use case for Harness is to create pipelines, deploy applications, and manage security pipelines. I use Harness to deploy applications to EC2 instances and Kubernetes instances, and I create...
What advice do you have for others considering Harness?
My advice for others looking into using Harness is to use AI capabilities, create pipelines, and then use it to deploy. Harness is a good tool. I would rate this review a nine out of ten.
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

Apptio Costing and Planing
Armory
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

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Linedata, Openbank, Home Depot, Advanced
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