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Bazel vs Harness comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Bazel
Ranking in Build Automation
18th
Average Rating
0.0
Number of Reviews
0
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Harness
Ranking in Build Automation
7th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.8
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (16th), Cloud Cost Management (9th), Feature Management (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Build Automation category, the mindshare of Bazel is 2.4%, down from 3.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Harness is 5.8%, up from 5.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Build Automation Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Harness5.8%
Bazel2.4%
Other91.8%
Build Automation
 

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reviewer2787357 - PeerSpot reviewer
Site Reliability Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Automated delivery has made production releases safer and has reduced deployment incidents
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 becoming productive, resulting in slower initial onboarding compared to simpler CD tools. An improvement idea is better guided onboarding with more opinionated defaults and examples. The second improvement can be on UI complexity and navigation; the UI can feel cluttered with many options and finding past executions, logs, or specific settings sometimes takes extra clicks, leading to small but noticeable productivity loss. Simplified UI views for common workflows and improved search and filtering could help. I also see cost and licensing as potential areas for improvement, as pricing can feel high for small teams and advanced features are tied to higher tiers, which may limit adoption for startups or smaller organizations. Flexible pricing models and more essential features in lower tiers could address this issue.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
22%
Financial Services Firm
20%
Computer Software Company
12%
University
8%
Financial Services Firm
28%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Government
6%
 

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Large Enterprise7
 

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What do you like most about Harness?
It's a highly customizable DevOps tool.
What needs improvement with Harness?
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,...
What is your primary use case for Harness?
Harness has been implemented in our organization for one of our clients for approximately 8 to 10 months. Harness is particularly utilized for our infrastructure provisioning pipelines and our RITM...
 

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Linedata, Openbank, Home Depot, Advanced
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