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CloudCheckr vs Harness comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 2, 2025

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
6.5
CloudCheckr CMx High Security users saw up to 100% ROI with cost savings, operational efficiency, and reduced manual effort.
Sentiment score
7.3
Harness enhanced deployment efficiency and error reduction, yielding significant ROI through automation and AI-driven cost-saving strategies.
It has reduced manual efforts that would otherwise be spent checking where spending is occurring and ensuring all teams use resources correctly.
Dev Ops Engineer at a construction company with 11-50 employees
I have seen a return on investment of 100%, with significant cost avoidance and measurable savings within the first few months of deployment.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
I've seen a return on investment, as the savings are concrete, measurable, and they show up directly in the AWS bill.
Top Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
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
6.8
CloudCheckr's support receives mixed reviews; some praise responsiveness and expertise, while others note delays, with account reps enhancing experiences.
Sentiment score
7.7
Harness offers reliable, responsive customer service and well-structured documentation, providing efficient issue resolution and high user satisfaction.
The additional support ended up taking longer than expected, with responses that did not meet our need for detailed and technical assistance.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
Sometimes support needs to be reached, but they are very responsive and supportive.
Dev Ops Engineer at a construction company with 11-50 employees
The customer support for CloudCheckr is fantastic.
Director, Trust Operations Analytics at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
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
8.1
CloudCheckr is scalable and efficient for MSPs and enterprises, though large data volumes may cause slowdowns.
Sentiment score
7.5
Harness effectively scales SaaS environments, supports complex workflows, but may face stability issues with simultaneous service integrations.
It scales well for MSPs and large enterprises, allowing for management of hundreds of accounts and tens of thousands of resources while retaining performance and visibility.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
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
8.1
CloudCheckr CMx High Security is stable and reliable, highly rated for enterprise cloud and cost optimization despite minor issues.
Sentiment score
8.1
Harness is considered stable and reliable, although integration with many applications may occasionally affect stability.
CloudCheckr is stable and rock solid.
Top Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
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

CloudCheckr needs better Azure and Google integration, UI simplification, faster data processing, clearer pricing, and enhanced security compliance.
Simplify configuration, improve UI, expand features, clarify pricing, and enhance security to improve accessibility and functionality for smaller teams.
CloudCheckr is a powerful and feature-rich tool with abundant metrics.
Dev Ops Engineer at a construction company with 11-50 employees
Another area is drift analysis; there have been complaints about tracking optimization opportunities, such as how to track opportunities identified in January and whether they were resolved in February.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
An area where CloudCheckr can be improved is pricing.
Director, Trust Operations Analytics at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
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

CloudCheckr provides cost-effective MSP licensing with usage-based pricing, offering good value and competitive rates for enterprise users.
Harness pricing is higher than open-source but justified by benefits, with room for improvement in licensing cost noted.
Overall, the pricing was quite convenient and represented good value for money.
Dev Ops Engineer at a construction company with 11-50 employees
Pricing is feature-tiered under the MSP licensing, and I would say the pricing was quite competitive and fair.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
I won't pretend it's cheap, but we've saved multiples of what we pay for it, so the conversation with finance is straightforward.
Top Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
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

CloudCheckr offers intuitive interface, cost visibility, actionable recommendations, security checks, optimization insights, and automation for efficient resource management.
Harness simplifies CI/CD automation with AI-driven processes, enhancing deployment speed and reliability while reducing risks and manual effort.
The cost visibility and reporting are really valuable, and the dashboard is informative and enables good decision-making.
Dev Ops Engineer at a construction company with 11-50 employees
What makes CloudCheckr easy for me to use is its intuitive interface.
Director, Trust Operations Analytics at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
The best features CloudCheckr offers include out-of-the-box security and compliance check features that provide over 35 different types of compliance checks at no cost, best practice checks, and alerts.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
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

CloudCheckr
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
18th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Management (18th), Managed Cloud Services (6th), AI Observability (28th)
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 CloudCheckr is 2.9%, down from 4.0% 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%
CloudCheckr2.9%
Other94.9%
Cloud Cost Management
 

Featured Reviews

AbhishekGupta2 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
Centralized cloud costs have boosted savings while reporting and user experience still need work
The best features CloudCheckr offers include out-of-the-box security and compliance check features that provide over 35 different types of compliance checks at no cost, best practice checks, and alerts. Another valuable feature is the multi-cloud overview, providing unified reporting across AWS and Azure while allowing us to create different types of dashboards based on who logs into the platform. Additionally, from an MSP standpoint, there is good ease of deployment, especially the billing and chargeback functionality for a reseller or managed services provider. CloudCheckr has positively impacted my organization by helping us manage multiple customers and tens of thousands of resources while retaining performance and visibility due to its multi-cloud support. We do not have to worry about jumping from one platform to another, and the better MSP support is beneficial from a billing and chargeback automation standpoint. The integration in compliance helps identify missing areas within our customer environments and improves them. On average, it has helped us provide approximately 15 to 20% savings through right-sizing or idle resource elimination. These are some of the immediate cost savings our customers have experienced after implementing recommendations from the tool.
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
Construction Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Computer Software Company
7%
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 Business4
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise10
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise10
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CloudCheckr ?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing reflects that it uses custom pricing based on your cloud spend, which is pretty standard for this category. I won't pretend it's cheap, but we'...
What needs improvement with CloudCheckr ?
CloudCheckr could enhance its Azure support, as it honestly feels an afterthought. We have some workloads on Azure and the experience compared to AWS is noticeably worse. Additionally, there's a lo...
What is your primary use case for CloudCheckr ?
A quick, specific example of how I use CloudCheckr in my workflow is that first thing every morning, I check the cost anomaly alerts. CloudCheckr flags anything that looks out of the ordinary overn...
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

CloudCheckr CMx High Security, CloudCheckr CMP
Armory
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Accenture, Logitech, Ingram, Cloudar, Infor, DXC, Cornell University, DLT, Lumen, Lightstream, Choice Hotels, B-Tech, SmileShark, PTP, Explicity, JCH Technology, Siemens Mobility
Linedata, Openbank, Home Depot, Advanced
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