CloudBolt vs Harness comparison

CloudBolt and Harness are both solutions in the Cloud Cost Management category. CloudBolt is ranked #45, while Harness is ranked #9 with an average rating of 7.7. CloudBolt holds a 1.3% mindshare in CCM, compared to Harness’s 1.9% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of CloudBolt users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Harness users who would recommend it.

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between CloudBolt and Harness based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Cloud Cost Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed CloudBolt vs. Harness Report (Updated: December 2025).

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CloudBolt vs. Harness

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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

7.9

CloudBolt's efficiency and automation reduced costs by 60% and improved delivery speed by over 50% in three years.

Sentiment score

9.0

Harness enhances deployment efficiency, reducing release times, improving processes, and decreasing failures, saving up to 40% development time.

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Time is saved because we now save engineering time. Before, it required two to three engineers actively monitoring production during deployments, but after starting to use Harness, there is zero or minimal manual monitoring.

reviewer2787357

Site Reliability Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

By adopting templates and various different pipelines across our own IDP platform, we have saved upwards of 30 to 40% of development time.

Manav Kanduri

Technical Associate at ZS

With Harness, the release process decreased from three or four hours to one or two hours, making deployments much quicker.

Linwei Yuan

Software Engineer at Citi

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

8.5

CloudBolt's customer service excels with quick responses, proactive follow-ups, and knowledgeable support, ensuring efficient issue resolution.

Sentiment score

7.8

Organizations rely on internal teams for incidents with Harness, benefiting from efficient communication and minimal external support needs.

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We have rarely faced issues with Harness tech support.

SAURAB K GANGURDE

Senior AWS Consultant at Quantum Integrators

Harness customer support is really helpful anytime I try to reach out; they are available to assist with any issues I am facing.

reviewer2787357

Site Reliability Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have been receiving incident reports whenever an incident occurs on Harness, and they are usually quick to respond.

Manav Kanduri

Technical Associate at ZS

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

6.7

CloudBolt scales effectively across environments but may struggle with horizontal scaling; VMware infrastructure adapts by resource adjustments.

Sentiment score

7.7

Harness is scalable for large enterprises, though stability issues may arise with integrations exceeding 20 applications.

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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.

Manav Kanduri

Technical Associate at ZS

Our entire organization uses it with hundreds of applications, and it supports this scale effectively.

Ravi Hanok

Senior Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

When I integrated Harness to more than 20 applications in one place, it becomes less stable.

Linwei Yuan

Software Engineer at Citi

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

7.7

CloudBolt is widely regarded as stable, with some issues resolved swiftly and benefiting from strong support and collaboration.

Sentiment score

7.2

Harness is stable with prompt support, though integration of multiple applications may reduce stability, and occasional downtime occurs.

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We have rarely faced issues with Harness tech support.

SAURAB K GANGURDE

Senior AWS Consultant at Quantum Integrators

Harness is decently stable.

Manav Kanduri

Technical Associate at ZS

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Room For Improvement

CloudBolt needs improvements in container support, user interface, integration, billing, scheduling, SaaS management, and on-prem/cloud integration.

Harness should streamline setup, enhance security and stability, simplify configurations, and revamp the UI to outperform competitors.

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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.

Manav Kanduri

Technical Associate at ZS

Flexible pricing models and more essential features in lower tiers could address this issue.

reviewer2787357

Site Reliability Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

When deploying multiple components to multiple environments, like production and BCP, failures sometimes occur.

Ravi Hanok

Senior Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

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Setup Cost

CloudBolt offers flexible pricing with discounts, allowing cost-effective management based on deployment size, though fees vary by location.

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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.

Manav Kanduri

Technical Associate at ZS

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Valuable Features

CloudBolt excels in ease of use, flexibility, and expandability, offering extensive automation, customization, and cloud management features.

Harness simplifies code deployment with automation, visual tools, AI error detection, and secure, downtime-free deployment methods.

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Meantime to recovery (MTTR) improved from 30 to 60 minutes before Harness to 5 to 10 minutes now.

reviewer2787357

Site Reliability Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

Harness uses AI to suggest errors in case of deployment failures.

Ravi Hanok

Senior Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

One of the best features Harness offers is the ability to templatize pipelines.

Manav Kanduri

Technical Associate at ZS

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Categories and Ranking

CloudBolt

Ranking in Cloud Cost Management

45th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Management (29th)

Harness

Ranking in Cloud Cost Management

9th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Build Automation (7th), Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (16th), Feature Management (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Cloud Cost Management category, the mindshare of CloudBolt is 1.3%, down from 1.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Harness is 1.9%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Cost Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Harness	1.9%
CloudBolt	1.3%
Other	96.8%

Cloud Cost Management

Featured Reviews

AdeolaEkunola

Director at NIGERCUBES LTD

The solution offers reliable resource control but needs to improve its UI

Cloudbox is just an abstraction software. There is no need for scalability. It's quite a simple solution. You might only need to increase the resources you apply to the CloudBold deployment. If, for example, the number of users increases, you might have to check the recommendations from CloudBolt and act accordingly. We have over 100 internal users. Regarding the infrastructure it sits on, the solution sits on the private of the on-prem, a VMware infrastructure that stands across two sites, the DR and the main production. We have over 60 ESXi of Asterisk and about 500 or 1,000 virtual machines.

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reviewer2787357

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

Computer Software Company

13%

Government

10%

Manufacturing Company

University

Financial Services Firm

28%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	6

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Large Enterprise	7

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What do you like most about Harness?

It's a highly customizable DevOps tool.

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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,...

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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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Overview

CloudBolt supports a variety of cloud technologies, from on-premises virtualization and private cloud to a wide range public and hybrid cloud configurations.

No need to rip-and-replace. CloudBolt provides easy import, syncing, and management of legacy deployments even as it helps you build out new cloud environments.

CloudBolt lets administrators create and maintain configuration standards while developing a reusable library of service and application templates.

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Harness offers a comprehensive toolset for automating deployment processes and enhancing software update efficiency. It's lauded for its CI/CD capabilities, feature flagging, and real-time deployment monitoring. Key features include an intuitive UI, secret management, and robust rollback functionalities, all contributing to improved productivity and reduced errors in DevOps environments.

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Sample Customers

WM, CyWest, Panic, Camden, University of Maryland, Xerox, Neustar, Medidata, Continu, Aruba Networks, Neuberger Berman, Peak6, EverBank, Ascensus, Hosting Edge

Linedata, Openbank, Home Depot, Advanced

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