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CAST AI vs Harness comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

CAST AI
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
38th
Average Rating
0.0
Reviews Sentiment
9.2
Number of Reviews
0
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Harness
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
9th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
Build Automation (7th), Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (16th), Feature Management (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Cloud Cost Management category, the mindshare of CAST AI is 1.8%, up from 1.5% 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 Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Harness2.0%
CAST AI1.8%
Other96.2%
Cloud Cost Management
 

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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

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Financial Services Firm
28%
Computer Software Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Retailer
5%
 

Company Size

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Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Large Enterprise9
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CAST AI?
In terms of setup cost, licensing, and pricing, I find the experience good. It's enterprise-grade, and the pricing is usage-based with no heavy upfront setup cost, which makes the onboarding straig...
What needs improvement with CAST AI?
The documentation of CAST AI can definitely be improved for first-time users. When we are onboarding a new user, the team needs some time to tune the policies and build confidence in automation bec...
What is your primary use case for CAST AI?
Our main use case for CAST AI is that we use it as a cloud provider and for Kubernetes clusters. We are using secure access roles and all those requirements for right-sizing the containers' workloa...
What do you like most about Harness?
It's a highly customizable DevOps tool.
What needs improvement with Harness?
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. Addit...
What is your primary use case for Harness?
Harness helps us build a pipeline with containerized steps that isolates virtual machines, reduces DevOps-based drifts, and improves our process by integrating several security testing-related step...
 

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